Tue.May 01, 2018

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What If Your Association Can’t Afford an Instructional Designer?

WBT Systems

Great news: you got the go-ahead to offer a new online course. Now, the bad news: you didn’t get the budget to hire a professional to design and develop the course. What are your options if your association can’t afford an instructional designer? At least, we’ll save money…or will we? You won’t necessarily save money in the long-run by handling instructional design yourself.

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5 Expert Tips to Revamp Your Event Management Strategy

Higher Logic

Your events can be the highlight of your member community experience! Especially for communities spread out over a wide geographic area, a monthly or yearly gathering is an exciting event to look forward to. To keep members excited about attending, your events need to be better every year than they were the last. On one level, that means bringing back the most popular sessions, speakers, and sponsors your attendees loved.

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Association Volunteers Do Not Engage Because of Time and Timing

Smooth The Path

Have you ever had someone raise their hand to volunteer, and they ended up being a dud? They asked to be on the board or to lead a committee, or they signed up to speak or write an article, or they said they would work registration or be a greeter. You thought they would be great. Instead, they did not show, or they did not do the work, or they buried you under endless questions.

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Aptify 6.0 Release: Get Ready to Work Even Smarter

Aptify

Aptify gives large, complex member-based organizations like yours member management tools on an open platform that your IT/developer team can use to configure a solution that helps your entire team work more efficiently. And now, with Aptify 6.0, we’ve improved the user experience and streamlined workflows to help your organization work even smarter.

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Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Association Member Education

Unlock More Profit and Smarter Packaging for Member Learning Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your association’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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May Social Media Ideas for Associations

GrowthZone

May the Fourth Be with You, Lyme Disease Awareness Month, and Cinco de Mayo are just a few May holidays. Holiday observances are a great way to keep your association’s social media feeds active. Check out these May themes to spark ideas: Monthly Observances. Nurses’ Month. Lyme Disease Awareness Month. Teen Self Esteem Month. Bike Month. 30 More Ideas for Association Social Media Posts ».

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In Loving Memory of My Mom, Ruth D. Kanter (My Mom)

Beth Kanter

In Loving Memory of Ruth D. Kanter. My mom passed away peacefully last month a few months shy of her 90th birthday. My mom was generous and supportive of everyone in her life and those less fortunate than her. Even though I lived 3,000 miles away, I was blessed to get to spend time with her in the last five years since my Dad died. Her memory is a blessing and my comfort is that she and my Dad (who were married for 60 years) are together again.

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April Update: Introducing Wild Apricot Payments

Wild Apricot

Learn how to set up Wild Apricot Payments and other new features in this month's update.

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Tips to Make Your Advocacy Email Get In and Stand Out

Beekeeper Group

What emails do you yourself open and why? Is it your favorite store letting you know what’s new in stock? Is it the news of the day? Do you trust that it will be short and to-the-point? A few often-mentioned stand-out emails are The Skimm (for timely news in a humorous tone), Uber (for infographic design and data points about my rides), and Axios (for their “smart brevity”).

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Tips to Make Your Advocacy Email Get In and Stand Out

Beekeeper Group

What emails do you yourself open and why? Is it your favorite store letting you know what’s new in stock? Is it the news of the day? Do you trust that it will be short and to-the-point? A few often-mentioned stand-out emails are The Skimm (for timely news in a humorous tone), Uber (for infographic design and data points about my rides), and Axios (for their “smart brevity”).

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2024 Association Survey Results Report

2024 Association Survey Results Report For the 10th year, association professionals across the U.S. and Canada provided a look at the inner workings of their organizations when they replied to GrowthZone’s annual survey. Read the 2024 survey results report to see how your association compares: Top Challenges Retention Rates Non-Renewal Reasons Automatic Renewals Reinstatement Strategies Member Engagement Changes & Strategies Why Members Join Non-Dues Revenue Sources Dues Increases, and more