Sat.Dec 09, 2017 - Fri.Dec 15, 2017

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The 3 Best Instagram Strategies For Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

If you’re struggling to get results, or simply starting from scratch, I’m going to show you the three best Instagram strategies for nonprofits I’ve seen get more likes and followers.

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The Evolution of Experience with Marketing Automation

Higher Logic

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: marketing automation will save you time and increase your engagement and efficiency. Okay, you’ve definitely heard that one, and it’s all true. The problem is you may not be getting to the biggest benefit that marketing automation has to offer: time. Automating can drastically increase engagement while cutting down on the time you spend doing manual tasks every day.

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How to Convince Employers to Pay for Professional Development

WBT Systems

When you’re a lifelong learner, it’s frustrating to see people in positions of power who don’t understand the value of professional development. It’s especially frustrating when these people are employers in your association’s industry or profession. What do you do when members (and non-members) are interested in your online learning programs but their employers won’t pay for professional development?

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The good, the bad and the ugly of career center networks.

YourMembership

Job opportunities rank as one of the top benefits that drive association membership, according to our recent Member Loyalty Study. It’s no surprise then that today most associations offer a niche job board on their website. Not only do job boards provide value to existing members and help associations attract new members, but they also generate. The post The good, the bad and the ugly of career center networks. appeared first on YourMembership.

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How to Increase Membership Renewal

Dive deep into essential elements that drive member retention. Learn why members may hesitate to renew. Discover actionable techniques to encourage their return and foster lasting engagement. Uncover reasons members choose not to renew. Learn effective tactics to elevate member engagement and communication. Explore methods to encourage member renewal and active participation in your association Download now to take charge of your membership retention strategy!

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5 Types of Nonprofit Members and How to Engage Them

Wild Apricot

In this post, I'm going to cover the five most common nonprofit member types I've encountered and the strategies I’ve seen work best.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 12.15.17

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events for the association community… Thanks to all of you who told me during the ASAE Tech Conference that you read Brain Food. I meant it, you made my day. I’m getting tired of all the “sky is falling” articles about AI. Sure, some jobs will be phased out—historically, some jobs have always been phased out, that’s how the world rolls.

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Letting Go for 2018

Spark Consulting

I recently had the opportunity to contribute to Beth Brodovsky’s Driving Participation podcast year-end special. Beth posed the following question to her contributors: In 2018 what marketing tactics, social media, or tech tools are you letting go of and why? . My response? #DeleteFacebook. I’m not recommending that you delete your organization’s Facebook page.

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How to Get Millennial Donors from Social Media

Wild Apricot

If you're struggling to get millennials to donate, follow these tried and tested ways nonprofits these days are successfully getting new millennial donors off social media.

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Study Holds Key to Association Member Engagement

Smooth The Path

For the last year, I have been saying that members who engage with the association within the first 3 days to 3 weeks of joining become more engaged through the life of their membership. I have been shouting this from the rooftops because members have told me this in interview after interview. The link between each new member’s experience and overall engagement is significant news because increased new member engagement does not just benefit the small segment of new members.

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How to Create a Winning Event Marketing Strategy

Events hold the power to create lasting impressions and meaningful connections. They are not only occasions for celebration but also valuable marketing opportunities. Event marketing has become an essential component of successful business strategies, enabling organizations to engage with their target audience and create memorable experiences. However, behind every successful event lies a well-thought-out marketing strategy.

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Why education programs should aim and miss like Michael Jordan.

YourMembership

Almost three years ago to the date, a famous basketball player by the name of Kobe Bryant hit a milestone statistic in his career. If you follow even the slightest bit of sports, the name Kobe Bryant should sound familiar. He was a star and one who was so good, he entered the NBA at. The post Why education programs should aim and miss like Michael Jordan. appeared first on YourMembership.

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Associations bring meetings back to Houston

Aaron Wolowiec

When the Texas Society of Association Executives gathered in Houston in September for the New Ideas Annual Conference, it was the first major event to take place in the city after Hurricane Harvey devastated Southern Texas with historic flooding.

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From the Chief Apricot: I Am Moving on from Wild Apricot

Wild Apricot

After almost 12 years, I have decided to move on and finish my time at Wild Apricot at the end of this year.

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Tell me about your chapter program.

Mariner

As we wrap up a year and move into the new year, there are questions. flying over on ASAE Collaborate. Like the recent exchange on Components. all around chapter structure and support. We understand how benchmarking is a useful tool. so here's a handy infographic on chapters and link to the full benchmarking study.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’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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Where Are Organizations the Most Traditional?

Jamie Notter

We’ve been collecting culture data for about two years now, and while we don’t have enough to provide truly statistically significant benchmarks (and don’t get me started, because I’m not sure culture benchmarks is the direction we want to go), we do, at least, have an early picture of where organizational cultures are falling these days along the continuum of traditional to futurist.

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Voices and Views: December

Aaron Wolowiec

Event Garde is committed to professional development, for ourselves and for our industry. As such, we’re avid readers of industry news. We’d like to share these must-reads with you.

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67 Gun Clubs Use This #1 Hunting and Gun Club Software

Wild Apricot

If you want to spend more time on the range and less time in the office managing your club, try this Gun Club Management Software used by 67 gun clubs for free.

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Working Committees Have Plenty To Do

Eric Lanke

We're looking ahead to another calendar year in our association, and as part of that look forward we are setting a year-long course for some of our working committees. Working Committee is the term my association uses for what others might call Program Committees. They are not committees of the Board, helping the Board fulfill its governance function.

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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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How Onboarding Is Key to Future Member Engagement

Aptify

All too often, it’s easy for us to fist pump in the air after meeting our membership goals for the month, and then turn to trying to do something about our disappointing renewal rates. Here’s the life hack for us marketing and membership people in associations : don’t think of “join” and “renew” as distinct processes.

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How Star Wars Can Help Association Pros Keep Their Cool

GrowthZone

If associations exist in the Star Wars universe (and we like to think they do), would association professionals spend their days balancing the two sides of The Force? A new member welcome email can be even stronger than the Force. Download The Power of the Welcome Email. Whether you worked for The Tatooine Greater Planet Association or The Hoth Economic Development Corporation, your days would still likely be filled with issues that challenge your organization.

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The Potential of Realities: Virtual, Augmented and Mixed

Association Success

What are the three types of reality, and what do they mean for the future of technologies? Nowadays, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality are becoming household terms in the same way “Smartphone” did 10 years ago, and “www” did 10 years before that. In each decade, adoption of the technology started small but grew exponentially, soon becoming indispensable for business and personal use.

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Engagement Tactics Paradoxically Prevent Member Engagement

Smooth The Path

The other day I bought a candy bar at checkout. A few minutes later I realized what I did and buying that candy bar made me mad! We like to think we cannot be fooled. We want to believe we make better decisions than other people. We like to think we can’t be played. Unfortunately, our brains are not optimized to make the very best decisions. Our minds rely on many shortcuts like heuristics, biases, and calculations we are not even consciously aware of.

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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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Security Awareness Tips for LMS Administrators

Forj

Keeping Your SaaS Data Secure. As the software industry continues to move away from purchased client/server applications and toward cloud-based SaaS (software as a service) solutions, LMS administrators must rethink the means that they employ to keep their system free from attack, and most importantly, keep their data secure. Historically, client/server software was usually accessible only from devices on the local network, but cloud-based SaaS hosting exposes it to anyone in the world with an i

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Why Every New AMS Software Project Needs a Change Management Team

Aptify

Selecting a new membership management system isn’t a membership department project, it’s an association project. Colleagues from across the organization must be involved in the project from the start so they can help you select the best AMS software for your association.

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Why Membership is Everybody’s Business

Association Success

Members sit at the center of all our efforts – and this should tie us together. There is a sign on my door, that says “it takes hours, it takes days, it takes weeks, to recruit a member - but it only takes seconds to lose one”. I truly believe that membership is everybody’s business. There is no way that a membership team could, or should, be solely responsible for recruiting, engaging, and retaining each member of an association.

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Results-driven Event Marketing for the Discerning Attendee

Association Adviser

By Scott D. Oser and Aaron Wolowiec. According to the 2014 Economic Significance of Meetings to the U.S. Report, commissioned by the Convention Industry Council (now the Events Industry Council) and researched by PwC, participant volume at meetings and events increased by 10 percent between the years of 2009 and 2012. Likewise, during the 2012 calendar year, 1.83 million meetings were held in the U.S. and attended by 225 million participants.

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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!