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How to Convince Employers to Pay for Professional Development

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When you’re a lifelong learner, it’s frustrating to see people in positions of power who don’t understand the value of professional development. It’s especially frustrating when these people are employers in your association’s industry or profession. Employers with this mindset have it backwards.

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How to Get Your Association to Support Staff’s Professional Development

WBT Systems

Associations have long been leaders in the lifelong learning business—which is why it’s so shocking to see how few associations support staff’s professional development, according to these survey results from Association Media & Publishing. Identify the skills and knowledge you want to develop. What were the circumstances?

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Give a Taste: Let Prospects & Members Sample Online Education

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But how do you get people to make that first investment of time and money into one of your online courses? Not convinced? If you let people sample online education, for example, a mini-course or webinar series , they’re more likely to react positively to your subsequent marketing messages about your paid online courses.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 10.29.21

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The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. To help associations increase sponsorship revenue, the Partnership Professionals Network and Dynamic Benchmarking are conducting a survey of association sponsors to find out: Why companies sponsor associations. Sponsor survey. Flexible work model.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.21.19

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Maggie McGary shares insights from the Community Roundtable’s 10th Annual State of Community Management report and cross-references them with findings from MGI’s Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report. It seems to pay some unexpected dividends.”

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50 Ways to Increase Membership for Associations or Nonprofits

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Create and promote the networking event as a way to hobnob with other professionals from their industry. It pays (literally) to offer promotions—especially to would-be members. So to help you hone in on a few potent tactics, we’re rounding up 50 impactful methods to grow your membership. Host a networking event.

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50 Ways to Increase Membership for Associations or Nonprofits

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Create and promote the networking event as a way to hobnob with other professionals from their industry. It pays (literally) to offer promotions—especially to would-be members. So to help you hone in on a few potent tactics, we’re rounding up 50 impactful methods to grow your membership. Host a networking event.