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Do Millennials Define Engagement Differently?

Jamie Notter

Her Millennial daughter came home from work and told the mother that she had quit her job. When the mom asked why, the Millennial daughter replied, “because they wouldn’t listen to my ideas.” But the Millennials are not down at that level, and, honestly, it’s through no fault of their own. So you have a choice.

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The Key to Attracting Millennials

Association Success

I am not an expert on Millennials, but I have three daughters aged 22, 20 and 18 so I am definitely gaining some basic understanding of how they think. Today, five years on, our membership is 47% Millennials, 34% Gen X and 19% Baby Boomers. That growth came from the Millennials. We did not lose the Baby Boomers.

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Millennial-friendly meetings: Bring on the couches and big screens

Aaron Wolowiec

Google images of millennials and you’ll find young professionals connected to their smart phones and tablets. All this aside, while millennials crave technology, they still value face-to-face meetings – albeit with a different flare – and understand the importance of networking, according to a new report by Skift and Meetings Mean Business.

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Can Encouraging Bleisure Travel Boost Millennial Conference Attendance?

Associations Now

Millennials might be most susceptible to the mixing of business and pleasure travel. As millennials become a greater percentage of meeting attendees, catering to them a bit more—in both programming and marketing—makes sense. So, what aspects of your host city will move more millennials from maybes to ticket booked?

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Is Your Organization Compatible with Millennials?

Jamie Notter

Since publishing When Millennials Take Over , we've been consistently approached by people wanting us to answer a central question: how do we attract Millennials? How do we retain our Millennial employees? So if you want to attract Millennials, you need more than good messaging. In fact, they expect to. Learn more here.

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Want to engage millennials? Don’t call them “activists.”

Achieve

It’s no secret that millennials (those born 1980-2000) want to do good. We’ve heard these statements from millennials themselves, and we have reported on them throughout the entirety of the Millennial Impact Project. It’s important to note, however, that millennial involvement looks very different than that of generations past.

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Attracting Millennials: Are you thinking age-appropriately?

Association Adviser

Attracting millennials to your association requires thinking about the different life stages they are living through – and marketing to them appropriately. A lot of articles out there dispense quick advice about how to attract millennials to your association’s membership: reach them on social media! Younger vs. Older Millennials.