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Are your members missing out on your association’s CE content?

YourMembership

Your learning content is one of your association’s key value propositions. But to take advantage of your educational courses, your members need to know about them. Here’s how to get the word out. Valuable learning content is one of your association’s key value propositions. But even though you’ve spent time and effort building great learning. The post Are your members missing out on your association’s CE content?

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Creating a Very Engaging Member Community

Smooth The Path

What if you could create a member organization from scratch? What would you do to bake engagement into the structure from the start? I have consulted with a handful of professionals who did just that, and the process was super exciting! Culture experts say that culture will happen no matter what, but the best cultures happen with some planning and encouragement.

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Ideas for Making Your Conferences More Inclusive

Associations Now

You want to make sure every attendee has the best experience possible, and that may mean rethinking how you’ve done everything from registration to captioning. A look at three associations taking the lead on creating more inclusive meetings. I know that you don’t need me to tell you about the importance of diversity and inclusion when it comes to all aspects of managing and running your associations.

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What are the Pros and Cons of Outsourcing for Associations?

HighRoad Solution

We all need a helping hand from time to time. In fact, 81% of associations outsource at least 1 service. For associations, this usually happens when you’re looking at a challenging project, like implementing a marketing automation platform.

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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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Community College Group to Help Member Schools Offer Food, Services to Students

Associations Now

Many students drop out of college for nonacademic reasons, and the Michigan Community College Association wants that to stop. Using grant money, MCCA will help member schools provide services—like food pantries and community connection hubs—to keep students enrolled. While many think students drop out of college because they can’t handle the academic work, research shows that for most students, it is issues like lack of finances and related struggles (work/school balance and access to childcare

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“Disrupt” Your Meeting to Improve Attendee Productivity

Associations Now

Karen Malone of HIMSS talks about how she constantly thinks about innovation and disruption, including with her own staff. To create innovative and interactive meetings, planners around the nation are raising the bar on productivity and capitalizing on attendee experience. In Orlando, seven planners have exceeded in this realm, setting the bar high for both their peers and the industry.

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Ready to grow your organization? Listen to Verne Harnish on SURGEcast

Association Success

As the author of “ Mastering the Rockefeller Habits ” and its follow-up, “ Scaling Up: Mastering the Rockefeller Habits 2.0 ,” few are in position to offer advice on how to grow your organization quite like Verne Harnish. The founder of the Entrepreneur’s Organization and the founder and CEO of the executive coaching company Scaling Up, Harnish sat down with us in Denver, Colorado, earlier this fall to talk us through the Rockefeller Habit s, how they apply in a non

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Member Engagement Strategies: A Guide for Associations

Fonteva

Association memberships are rewarding experiences and unique in the way that members pay dues in order to continue to be a part of the organization. That’s why it’s important that your association actively works hard to keep members coming back year after year, offering value through opportunities and events that can’t be found otherwise. Whether your association is made up of professionals in the same field or alumni who went to the same university, member engagement should always be one of you

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Daily Buzz: Why Education Should Go Beyond Conferences

Associations Now

Continuing education matters, but should it come just from meetings? Research shows members might want other options. Also: member management tips from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. How does your association rank conferences within its education strategy? According to the Community Brands Member Engagement and Loyalty Study , most association professionals say meetings are one of the most important and strongest benefits their organization offers.

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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

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Associations in the 2020s: Looking Back in Order to Look Ahead

Multiview

Hard to believe, but it’s the end of another year. Perhaps harder to believe, it’s the end of another decade.… The post Associations in the 2020s: Looking Back in Order to Look Ahead appeared first on MultiView.

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Why We Love Associations: 10 Top Stories From the Associations Now Archives

Associations Now

From news to opinion to quirky features about creative association pros, these are some of the stories that have made a splash with Associations Now readers over the years. Read them again for an end-of-decade reminder of why you love associations. Associations Now didn’t have a digital news presence until 2012, but we’ve covered enough of the 2010s that we have a lot of association stories to look back at in our archives.

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2020 Association Tech: 3 Expert Tips to Guide Your Planning

Higher Logic

Good news: Four association experts sat down to share their favorite trends and lessons learned from the newly rebranded ASAE Technology Exploration Conference (TEC) and their valuable conversation can help guide your association’s 2020 planning strategy for success. Let’s dive into the latest trends in association technology, as identified in a recent webinar hosted by Protech, featuring the following expert panel: Heather McNair | Chief Community Officer, Higher Logic.

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5 Reasons You Need Mobile Bidding At Your Next Auction Event

Achieve

Planning an auction takes a considerable amount of effort for nonprofits. Between procuring items, finding a venue to accommodate all of your guests, picking up bid paddles, and getting people to register, it can be hard to juggle the different parts of a great event. Many nonprofits have turned to mobile bidding software and online tools to help them handle the stressors of hosting an auction event.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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What I’ve Learned This Year Could Fill a Book

Velvet Chainsaw

After nearly 30 years leading the event development and execution at the Society for Human Resource Management, I took the leap earlier this year to join the remarkable VCC team and focus on helping associations and organizations improve their annual events. The work we do has reignited my deep appreciation for the role associations play in society and the importance people attribute to their affiliation with a profession or business vertical.

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Congress Passes Repeal of Nonprofit Employee Benefits Tax

Associations Now

After a two-year advocacy and grassroots campaign by ASAE and the UBIT Coalition, Congress repealed a section of the 2017 tax law that required associations and other tax-exempt organizations to pay UBIT on employee benefits such as parking and transportation. As part of a massive, bipartisan year-end spending and tax package agreed to this week, Congress repealed a section of the 2017 tax law that required associations and other tax-exempt organizations to pay a 21 percent unrelated business in