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Study: Why Business Travel Costs Vary Significantly by City

Associations Now

Event planners and business travelers alike should be aware of the additional costs that come with launching an event in a coastal city, a new study finds. A big city or coastal locale might seem like the best way to draw in attendees, but a new report shows that those locations often come with a big additional cost.

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Mortgage Associations Fight Unusual Plan to Save Homes

Associations Now

Home prices are on the rise, and headline writers across the country couldn’t be more ecstatic: “Housing Market Heats Up,” “Firing on Most Cylinders,” “Housing Market Roars to Life.”. Those reports might seem foreign in parts of the country where the housing market has been slower to recover.

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Bridging the Data Disconnect Between Nonprofits and Their Funders

Beth Kanter

I’m very excited to participate in one of the evening events, a curated discussion on Data, Transparency, and Impact with Jane Meseck (Microsoft), Paul Shoemaker (Social Venture Partners) and Eric Stowe (Splash) and moderated by: Erica Mills, Claxon Marketing. The report ends with some reasons why there might be a disconnect.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.18.18

Reid All About it

explains how to develop, market and roll out a trial program. I’ve been transcribing my March 2001 journal from when I traveled via Amtrak Coast Starlight sleeper car from LA to Seattle… Did you know the Coast Starlight and Pacific Surfliner go right along the California coast? Alyssa Peltier, Customer Marketing Manager, Cvent.

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Three Analytics Tools to Gauge Your Social Audience’s Pulse

Beth Kanter

All of these platforms have been profiled at our recent Social Media for Nonprofits conferences, which is about to produce its final US program of the year in Seattle on 11/5, before we head to New Delhi on December 5, and then back to New York City, Silicon Valley, Vancouver, plus most other major US markets in 2013.

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The Highs and Lows of Per Diem Rates

Associations Now

Business travel costs vary significantly, depending on where you’re going. To spend a single day in the Venezuelan capital would cost an average of $1,702.44, thanks to the extremely high rate of inflation affecting the region. And those cities that do cost significantly more than average—San Francisco’s $547.34

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What Smart Associations Do Differently

Association Adviser

The economy, financial markets and labor market are greatly improved (see chart below). All the resources, connections and reach that associations used to have to themselves can now be found at little or no cost by anyone with a web connection. Seattle Seahawks. Stock Market #. They don’t even need a computer.

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