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How to Become the Corporate Training Partner for Member Companies

WBT Systems

How to Become the Corporate Training Partner for Member Companies. Read more about How to Become the Corporate Training Partner for Member Companies.

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Association Management: Online vs. In-person Engagement

Blue Sky eLearn

As an association leader, you know the importance of engaging your members. How you communicate with members and the opportunities you offer directly impact their experience with your organization and the chance that they’ll renew. With a dedicated and comprehensive engagement strategy, your member retention rate is much more likely to increase! However, it’s likely that your more traditional engagements are on pause.

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3 Ways to Improve Your Association’s Membership Acquisition Strategy

Higher Logic

The post 3 Ways to Improve Your Association’s Membership Acquisition Strategy appeared first on Higher Logic. How can your association reach potential members + convince them to join? Email campaigns? Virtual events? Get tips from the 2020 Membership Marketing Benchmark Report. The post 3 Ways to Improve Your Association’s Membership Acquisition Strategy appeared first on Higher Logic.

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How to Convince Your Board You Need Membership Management Software

Wild Apricot

Ready to start using membership management software. but your board is dragging their feet? Here's how to overcome the top three most common objections, and how to successfully pitch your new MMS.

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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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How to Overcome a Layoff in a Socially Distanced World

Aaron Wolowiec

What should you do if you’ve been laid off? Here are three suggested steps you should take.

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Here’s How Community Helps Your Customer Advocacy Program Take Off

Higher Logic

The post Here’s How Community Helps Your Customer Advocacy Program Take Off appeared first on Higher Logic. An online community can energize your customer advocacy program – here are three reasons why. The post Here’s How Community Helps Your Customer Advocacy Program Take Off appeared first on Higher Logic.

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8 Giving Tuesday Ideas To Make 2020 Your Best Year Yet

Wild Apricot

If you're hoping to create a great experience for donors this Giving Tuesday and raise more funds than ever before, check out this list of ideas to inspire you.

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The 1 thing you need to know about GenZ

Association Success

“By 2030, just 10 years from now, Generation Z will start to occupy senior leadership roles,” reported Elisa Pratt , association authority and expert in strategic nonprofit solutions in our new member-exclusive course, “Who is your member of 2030?”. With a new generation of leaders comes new work styles and leadership mindsets. Keeping up with and predicting these future trends can mean the difference between surviving and thriving during this shift.

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Governance vs Management and Defining Your Board’s Role

Association Adviser

Moving into an association board position requires a different invovlement level. How do we encourage board members to focus on governance and not management? The post Governance vs Management and Defining Your Board’s Role appeared first on Association Adviser.

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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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Will Members Really Want to Go Back To In-Person Conferences?

Smooth The Path

In-person conferences were generally quite exclusive. Attendees had to have the money to travel, which often meant they worked for a well-resourced organization, and they were high enough in the organization structure to have access to the budget. Conferences sometimes excluded women with younger children because it is hard for them to travel. Sometimes young professionals don’t feel welcome.

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Six Attributes of Successful Women’s Conferences

Velvet Chainsaw

This article was originally written for the April issue of PCMA’s Convene magazine. The timing was right before the lockdown and a couple months before the 2020 social justice movement eclipsed. While things have changed, these tenets will hold true and the principles can be applied to other D&I conferences and events. After studying and consulting on several successful association women’s conferences, I can confidently say – they need to be very different than other conferences in your port

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How to get new members just by answering questions

Association Success

Did you know Reddit and Quora are some of the most influential sites in the world? . Quora and Reddit have over 300 and 400 million monthly active users, respectively, and for Quora, adult users with a household income greater than $100,000 spend two times more time on Quora than LinkedIn. And Reddit loves sharing links. More than 50% of its content includes link sharing.

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Could Hybrid Events Become the New Standard?

Association Adviser

Hybrid events can unite the benefits of physical and virtual events to provide a tailored experience that reinforces your association's value. The post Could Hybrid Events Become the New Standard? appeared first on Association Adviser.

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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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Your Speakers Want Training Before Their Virtual Conference Performance

Smooth The Path

Presenting online is nearly entirely different than the in-person experience. Event hosts tell me that their speaker’s presentations are falling flat, and speakers who have given their first online presentation feel their session could have gone better. Many associations did not train their speakers for in-person meetings, but given the steep virtual learning curve coupled with the need for presentations to be super engaging, speaker training may be just the thing.

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Why your association needs an online community now more than ever

Nimble AMS

Keeping members engaged with your association is always a challenge. In this era of social distancing, it’s especially tough. That’s where an online member community can help. An online community is always a great way for your members and staff to collaborate and share ideas. And in times like these, it can be a particularly valuable resource for your members and can help you stay connected with them when you can’t meet face-to-face.

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How a middle school lesson can increase member engagement

Association Success

Members come to your organization with three distinct needs: for community, self-esteem, and opportunities to reach their full potential. Throughout the course of their membership, members will cycle through these needs, and search for any solutions your organization can offer. How do you keep them around? An old middle school lesson actually offers some tips.

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The Reinvention Mandate: Part I

Association Adviser

With 2021 on the horizon, associations must abandon the pursuit of relevancy and commit to the comprehensive reinvention of institutions, systems and society. The post The Reinvention Mandate: Part I appeared first on Association Adviser.

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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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Seasonal Promotions at Your Association or Chamber

MemberClicks

Q4 brings many things, but one of the most loved (and most fun): holidays! There’s Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa (among many others). And let’s not forget about Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, and Giving Tuesday. Put simply, there’s a lot going on. But that can honestly make marketing fun! Why not get in on some of that holiday excitement and offer a few seasonal promotions at your association or chamber?

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It’s Time Associations Moved from Surviving to Thriving

Multiview

We’re now more than six months into the pandemic, and unfortunately, we don’t necessarily feel all that much closer to… The post It’s Time Associations Moved from Surviving to Thriving appeared first on MultiView.

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How to plan for an uncertain 2021 association conference format

Association Success

The 2020 annual conference season is largely complete, and it was certainly the most confusing, demanding, and complex event period in modern times. For many associations, 2020 marked their first large-scale virtual event. Next year’s big meetings will be even harder, fraught with even greater challenges — starting with which conference format to choose.

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Customer Spotlight: American Dental Association and Aptify

Aptify

Hear what Peter Bradley, Director of IT at American Dental Association has to say about working with Aptify association management software. Q: When did you implement Aptify? . A: “We went live with Aptify at the end of 2011, and then over the next few years, we rolled it out to about 48 states and 115 local societies.”. Q: How do you use Aptify for both your national and local chapters?

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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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Association E-Learning: 3 Tips to Provide Member Value

Fonteva

As an association professional, your job revolves around member engagement. It’s the driving force behind your association’s existence. That being said, if you find yourself asking, “Why aren’t members engaging with our association anymore,” you’re not alone. It’s hard to maintain association member engagement during a year like 2020. The formula for engaging members hasn’t changed.

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Statement On Announcement That France Will Begin Collecting Its Digital Services Tax

InternetAssociation

Washington, DC – Internet Association Director, Trade Policy Jordan Haas issued the following statement on French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire statement that France will begin collecting its digital services tax (DST) on American digital companies in December: “The internet industry condemns France’s decision to move forward with collecting its unfair, discriminatory DST on American companies.

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Why organizations should celebrate employees’ small victories

Association Success

A successful membership drive, unprecedented enrollment numbers in continuing education courses and record conference attendance are major accomplishments for an association that are worthy of celebration. But these kinds of achievements only happen after months of grinding. How do you show your team you value their contributions every step of the way?

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Election notice: How communities can regulate displays of political signs

Ungrated

Political signs often receive a lot of attention in local news and on social media, particularly during election seasons. At a time when political views can become quite charged, the issue of lawn signs endorsing a candidate or supporting a social cause can further divide communities. Reasonable restrictions and uniform rules enforcement help avoid conflict.

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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.