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How For-Profit Membership Models Are Evolving

Associations Now

With Prime quickly becoming an essential part of Amazon’s business, the company appears to be eyeing exclusivity as a strategy to further boost subscriptions. In a statement to the website, Amazon defended the strategy: From time to time, Amazon offers exclusive selection and pricing on select items for Prime members. The reason?

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Mortgage Associations Fight Unusual Plan to Save Homes

Associations Now

The city plans to use its power of eminent domain to seize some of those loans and allow homeowners to keep their homes, a strategy being considered by two dozen other cities, including Seattle and North Las Vegas. In the working-class city of Richmond, California, about half of all homeowners with mortgages are underwater.

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Sponsorships: What Do Meeting Organizers and Exhibitors Want?

Associations Now

“A top priority of event organizers today is driving revenue growth, and sponsorships are seen as a top area of opportunity, while exhibitors are looking to enhance the value of sponsorships,” said Vice President of GES MarketWorks and Strategy David Saef in a press release.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.18.18

Reid All About it

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? – How to Scale Online Learning: B2B Market Strategies for Associations. The Guardian ). Need to decompress?

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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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Coronavirus Updates for Association and Events Professionals – What You Need to Know

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We hope you can leverage this data to design strategies that add value to both you and your customers. China May Be Beating the Coronavirus, at a Painful Cost (source: NY Times) March 8, 2020 – Beijing says its heavy-handed measures are working. China’s blunt force strategy poses deeper questions for other countries.

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Daily #COVID19 Updates for Association and Events Professionals – What You Need to Know

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We hope you can leverage this data to design strategies that add value to both you and your customers. China May Be Beating the Coronavirus, at a Painful Cost (source: NY Times) March 8, 2020 – Beijing says its heavy-handed measures are working. China’s blunt force strategy poses deeper questions for other countries.