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Digital badging: A win-win for associations and their learners.

YourMembership

When working to build a learning program that’s unlike anything offered elsewhere, it’s imperative for association professionals to have a good grasp on generational shifts and new technology, as well as the ability to embrace change. As part of this endeavor, key trends should be evaluated to determine what value they bring to a specific. The post Digital badging: A win-win for associations and their learners. appeared first on YourMembership.

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7 Solid Club Website Examples to Get Ideas for Your Club Website

Wild Apricot

Here are seven solid examples of club websites from all different types of organizations. If you browse these club websites, take some tips on how they’ve set things up.

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How to Use Webinars to Promote Your eLearning Programs

Blue Sky eLearn

What kind of pricing should we use for our webinars? How can we monetize our webinars? These are two popular questions we receive from our clients. There is no right answer. Every client is different, every audience is different, every webinar is different. There is, however, an (almost) constant thread when it comes to webinars – a lower barrier to entry for both the person hosting the webinar and the person attending.

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How to Use Webinars as Lead Generation for Your Online Courses

WBT Systems

What does it take to make a seven-figure income from online courses? Ask Amy Porterfield. She’s a multi-millionaire online marketing expert who says, “Webinars are the backbone of my business model.” Her free webinars act as lead generators for her paid online courses. When you provide free content like webinars to your target audience, you earn their goodwill and a reputation as a valuable source of information.

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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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Could Your User Group Be the Key to Increasing Customer Retention?

Higher Logic

Gamification. Loyalty programs. Personal outreach. There are endless ways you could increase customer retention, most of which will probably have a positive impact on your bottom line. But how much impact will they have? If your current programs are only making small improvements, what else can you do to improve retention? Many brands struggle with this question because, unfortunately, dissatisfied customers are going to leave no matter how good your loyalty program is.

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The Gardian of the Month: Alina Cooper

Aaron Wolowiec

Alina Cooper, manager of client projects for Event Garde, is Gardian of the Month.

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Learn with iMIS and TopClass LMS at the 2018 NiUG Greater Chicago Conference

WBT Systems

WBT Systems is delighted to be an official strategic partner of the 2018 NiUG Greater Chicago Conference , hosted by NiUG International , April 4-6, in Rosemont, Illinois. There’s no better way to make purchasing decisions for your association than to learn about the product first-hand and talk face-to-face with a knowledgeable supplier. Discovering new advances, comparing them with other products and services, and meeting with users already using the products will ensure you pick the best sol

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We Feed Our Own Whirlwinds

Eric Lanke

We had Chris McChesney speak at my association's Annual Conference a few weeks back. If you don't know who that is, he's one of the authors of The Four Disciplines of Execution , also know as 4DX. If you don't know what that is, it's a book that describes a simple yet compelling system for getting an organization to focus on and achieve the wildly important.

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Why Is Association Governance Restructure So Hard? Here’s Why It Shouldn’t Be.

World Class Boards

There are great books on governance that tell big boards to downsize; shift to competency-based, rather than constituency or geography-based selection system; be nimble, responsive and strategic; and select the best people for the job, not just those who “worked their way through the positions and did their time.” These aren’t radical ideas; they’ve become mainstream.

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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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Putting Data to Work

AMR Management Services

It's hard to turn on a TV, tune in a radio, or scroll through Facebook or Twitter and not see or hear something about the power of technology and data. Ads and commercials about technology, AI, and.

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What are Associations Doing About Sexism in the Workplace?

Smooth The Path

Lauren feels her heart beat faster as she walks down the hall toward her manager’s office. She is about to surprise her manager with the unwelcome news of her resignation. Lauren does not want to resign, but with a toddler at home and another on the way, she is beyond overwhelmed. Lauren worked extremely hard to get to the director level and always thought her career trajectory would keep climbing.

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3 Critical Things to Look for in Salesforce-Based Association Management Software

Nimble AMS

Associations are making a move from old school, legacy association management software (AMS) systems to modern enterprise platform-based AMS systems on the Salesforce App Cloud. The primary drivers are these: Performance, scalability and security. The Salesforce platform offers associations a performance envelope unmatched by any other. Ecosystem and Extensibility.

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Leaders of Tomorrow: What to Look for in a Prospective CEO

Association Success

Recruiters should look for an extra edge when hiring association leaders in today’s changing landscape. The association community is facing a crisis of leadership. Many powerful leaders in the space will retire in the next decade, and those roles must be filled by individuals fit to take on today’s changing environment. The CEO can make or break the association from the inside.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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5 Features the Best Membership Management Software Should Have

Aptify

As your association heads into the future, you don’t want your hands tied by technology. Your technology must give your association the freedom to make the right choices and decisions. The best membership management software includes five critical features that will help your association prepare itself for the future.

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The Benefits of Hiring an Association Intern

GrowthZone

There are many benefits to adding an intern to your team. It is a great way to supplement full-time staffers for assistance with projects they might not otherwise be able to tackle. But don’t wait too long as summer will be here before you know it! Be prepared and carefully consider how offering an internship to a student (or even an adult wanting a career change) can give your association the boost that it needs.

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Your One-Stop-Shop Results From the New Member Engagement Study!

Smooth The Path

How would you like to raise the new member renewal rates by 9.7%? You can! New research shows that trade and professional associations greatly benefit when they implement new member onboarding and orientation programs. These programs raise new member renewal rates, increase new member engagement, and quite possibly can raise overall member engagement at your association.

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SURGE Spring Line-Up: What’s In Store at the Summit

Association Success

We are thrilled to announce the sessions and speakers for our interactive virtual summit in May. It is with great excitement and anticipation that we announce the full SURGE Spring session and speaker line-up for our May 2 nd -4 th interactive virtual summit. Our twelve sessions all explore the theme of transformation, rooted once again in the belief that our best resource for change is collective knowledge.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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10 years of Mizz Information…and 10 free or cheap digital marketing tools

Mizz Information

Well, I somehow managed to miss this blog’s 10 year anniversary on February 24. Not that anyone actually cares about this other than me, but still…10 years is a LONG TIME for a commitment-phobe like me : ) Looking back at my first post I have to say that I’ve never really stopped to think about how far I’ve come since then and how much of that is directly attributable to this blog.

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Innovation Requires Diversity

Idea Architects

There are no coffee refills in France. or at least not like what we are accustomed to in the States. For Americans visiting for the first-time this might seem like caffeine heresy: What? No carafe of stale coffee dropped off at my table? No. Instead of on-demand consumption, they offer on-demand creation, bringing you a fresh cup of coffee when you are ready for it.

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2018 American Associations Day

GrowthZone

The GrowthZone team wishes everyone a productive American Associations Day! In virtually every business sector and industry, across the country, state to state, associations mobilize millions to turn change into progress one step at a time. The Power of A implements programs and impacts policies to support this progress. ASAE created the Power of A to serve as the association industry’s brand – not ASAE’s.

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New Technological Realities: What’s on the Market?

Association Success

Technology to send your association hurtling into the future. In my last article , I introduced Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Realities and the roles they can play in our lives. This is a trendy topic these days because these technologies are increasingly accessible in the market. Most major companies have been working on these mediums, not just for the entertainment field.

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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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5 Features the Best Membership Management Software Should Have

Aptify

As your association heads into the future, you don’t want your hands tied by technology. Your technology must give your association the freedom to make the right choices and decisions. The best membership management software includes five critical features that will help your association prepare itself for the future. Shouldn’t your membership management system be helping your organization grow and adapt with the times and with the needs of the people they serve?

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A Prescription for Better Visions

Idea Architects

Most vision statements suck. There I said it. They are too bland or too basic to inspire change and commitment. Here's one that gets it right and how it reflects the characteristics of a vision that can actually influence an organization's results: To create a building that contributes back to the health of the planet. —David Hertz, Architect It's challenging Right now we see buildings as consumers, not contributors of resources from our planet.

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Are you going to #deletefacebook?

Beth Kanter

In the aftermath of the reports that Cambridge Analytica , a firm that worked on President Trump’s 2016 campaign, used private data on 50 million Facebook users has erupted into a strong backlash against Facebook. The hashtag #deletefacebook has been circulating on the Internet. I have seen many posts of outrage from friends and colleagues, all angry at Facebook and threatening to delete their accounts.

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New Article Posted: How Cognitive Biases Can Affect Data Management

Effective Database

Anyone who has ever taken an intro level course on psych (or just reads a lot) has probably encountered the concept of cognitive biases. In a nutshell, a cognitive bias is a mental shortcut, or heuristic, for helping humans make decisions. Cognitive biases are not inherently bad, but they can cause problems, especially when used during decision making processes.

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Here’s a Powerful Marketing Tool Designed for Associations

Show the Benefits of Membership to Your Toughest Prospects. Download this FREE infographic from GrowthZone AMS, Why Join an Association, and start using it as your go-to recruitment and retention marketing tool. Post it on your website. Use it in sales presentations. Or use it as inspiration to create your own version. Infographics have power. They're a quick read.