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Sample Your Association’s Conference With Prospective Participants

Smooth The Path

” This strategy works because I get to sample the new car driving experience. Even if conference registration is only $450, the entire cost of the trip could easily be $2,000. You sample. Sampling doesn’t have to be difficult (like offering your attendees the chance to drive a new car).

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Why Online Communities Still Aren’t a Top Business Strategy (And How to Change That)

Higher Logic

Few of us exist in companies that openly embrace community as a compelling, wondrous silver bullet of a business strategy. This combination of factors creates profound hurdles in identifying the cost of community and the monetary value of a registration, or a post, or an event. Even fewer exist in organizations that tout transparency.

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Association Brain Food: 2.2.24

Reid All About it

They explain how to develop a content strategy, know when it’s time for a redesign, decrease costs and increase revenue. GrowthZone’s guide to selecting a credit card processor is perfect for those of you who need to understand the players and their roles, terminology, fees, rates, hard and soft costs, and security issues.

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Measuring eLearning Success: What’s Your Data’s Story?

Blue Sky eLearn

A meaningful evaluation strategy is much more than crafting a course evaluation template in your LMS or running a report. In order to know whether your eLearning programs are meeting the mark, consider setting three levels of measurement: Strategy, Portfolio Performance, and Learning. It’s why they complete our courses.

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Membership Renewals: Strategies, Processes and Tips

MemberClicks

To be more specific, in this article, you’ll learn: What member retention is Why them matter What retention rates can tell you Top 10 membership renewal strategies. This makes it way more cost-effective to retain the support of existing members than recruiting, onboarding and engaging new members all the time. What is member retention?

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Does Your Leadership Style Need a Change?

Associations Now

Culture eats strategy for breakfast, the cliche goes, and culture apparently never goes hungry: According to a survey O’Reilly conducted, 92 percent of 1,300 executives said “improving their firm’s culture would increase its value.” This doesn’t happen as often as you’d hope, O’Reilly suggests, because leaders are busy.

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Looking For a Virtual Events Partner? Be Sure To Ask These 10 Questions

Blue Sky eLearn

So, beyond your standard questions about event schedule and production cost, what are the other most important questions to ask a virtual events vendor as you investigate their services? In order to cut down on costs, some digital event providers are leveraging free and/or open-source platforms that they do not control and maintain.

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