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The One Thing Every Sponsor Wants (And Nobody is Doing)

Wild Apricot

There is one thing that your sponsors want more than anything else and nobody is doing it. Sponsorship Expert Chris Baylis tells you what that thing is and how to do it.

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Re-Energize Online Learning for Members

WBT Systems

If you have been providing continuing education programs or professional development training via your website or learning management system, but your members don’t seem to be interested in the training you are offering, how can you re-energize online learning for members? If your members are finding your online learning content to be a bit stale, or if participation levels are dropping, don’t despair!

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An AMS to optimize your association’s financial operations.

YourMembership

YourMembership’s AMS now integrated with QuickBooks Online and Great Plains. We’ve been busy at YourMembership, enhancing our technology solutions to improve your association members’ experience, streamline your operations and processes, and help your organization grow. Last month, we revolutionized the member experience with SocialLink, YM’s online community and social mobile app built into our association […].

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The Internet of Things Demands Interoperability

Higher Logic

Although half of all cyclists have had a bike stolen, new developments in bike lock technology have traditionally been limited to tougher metals and fancier keys. Lattis, the maker of the Ellipse bike lock, is introducing an alternative technology using the Internet of Things. Its solar-powered U-lock connects to smartphones to provide keyless security access, detect thefts and sense crashes.

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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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The Best Way to Avoid Choosing The Wrong Nonprofit Software

Wild Apricot

How do you avoid bad software and choose a solution perfect for you organization? Fortunately, tech experts Jason Shim, Mark Hallman, and Shub Sengupta developed an easy test that any nonprofit can use, which reveals just that.

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7 issues nonprofits can turn into opportunities.

YourMembership

Here are some solutions for your nonprofit to become more efficient and spur growth. Your nonprofit has faced challenges for as long as it’s been around. You’ve been working to overcome the same obstacles for years. But, as the years go by, each challenge gives way to new opportunities as you continue to adjust your […].

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How to Calculate the Impact of Online Community Engagement on Your Business

Higher Logic

You slave over your community. The alerts never stop chiming on your phone, your email is the first thing you check every morning, and you know your all-star members better than you know your best friend. You are a master of online engagement. So when your quarterly meeting with the executive team rolls around, you’re ready. You hit your presentation out of the park… until the CFO asks how online community engagement is impacting sales goals.

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The Glamourous Life

Eric Lanke

Those of you who are seasoned travelers, you might want to skip this one. I've been traveling on business since I started my career in association management -- twenty-four years now. In fact, my first flight on an airplane was the first time I traveled on business. It was Atlanta, if memory serves. The purpose of the trip? That was long ago lost in the fog.

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4 Stages of a Learning Business

Forj

OrgCommunity and Web Courseworks are excited to present the closing webinar of the Spring eLearning Thought Leaders series, The Learning Business Maturity Model , featuring Jeff Cobb and Celisa Steele of Tagoras. Tagoras is a research and consulting firm for associations and organizations who focus on lifelong learning. They have been providing expert advice on strategy, learning, marketing and technology to help organizations in the business of learning for more than a decade.

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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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The New Kind of Conference

Association Success

Designed entirely for idea sharing. When you step into a conference session, here is the generally expected outcome: Thought leader at the front of the room speaks. Audience members take notes. Audience walks away feeling enlightened. But think back to the sessions you’ve actually attended. As you sat there, I’ll bet you weren’t just simply taking notes.

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To Deepen Member Engagement, Redefine Volunteering

Associations Now

Offering volunteer opportunities can be one of the most effective ways to bring members closer to your association. But the work they do needs to benefit the volunteer as well as the organization. One way to deepen member engagement is create enough different opportunities to match your members’ volunteering preferences. If you’re a frequent social media user, you probably follow those hashtags that pop up in your Twitter or Facebook feed.

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Bright Spots Are a Source of Association Inspiration

Smooth The Path

Related: Watch who you watch. 3 Effective techniques to adopt before times of stress in your association. Check out – Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip & Dan Heath. The post Bright Spots Are a Source of Association Inspiration appeared first on Smooth The Path.

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The 21st Century Meeting Professional: Act Strategically, Think Both Functionally And Strategically

Velvet Chainsaw

What’s the role of the 21st Century meeting and conference professional? In the past, the answer was easy. Perform very straight forward, transactional, functional tasks related to the logistics of conferences, meetings and events. S/He fulfilled the same types of tasks on a daily basis. When asked to make improvements, s/he focused on efficiency and cost savings.

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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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Virtual Associations: How to Transition Away From the Brick & Mortar

Association Success

There are all sorts of new considerations when going virtual. Working virtually can mean anything from accessing technology that allows you to work when you’re not in the office to running a company without a physical location. Association managers and members are already using tools to access information and network virtually. Imagine how a virtual environment could improve member services, create operational efficiencies and increase the well-being of your team.

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Consumer-Education Campaign Shines Light on Solar Energy

Associations Now

The Solar Energy Industries Association has launched a consumer-education campaign to help people understand the technology and the process of going solar. Solar energy is growing rapidly—1.5 million households have solar installed, and 4 to 5 million are expected to by 2021. Still, most people don’t know much about solar. To better inform the public and protect consumers of solar energy systems, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) is launching a consumer-education campaign.

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Do Associations Really Have it Worse?

Smooth The Path

Would you say you are luckier or unluckier than most people? Many of us would say we are somewhat unluckier than most other people and this is a cognitive bias. Professors Tom Gilovich and Shai Davidai recently published a paper about this called The Headwinds/ Tailwinds Asymmetry which I discovered through the Freakonomics Radio Podcast (this is a remarkable episode, and it’s worth the quick half-hour listen).

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How To Stop Your Nonprofit’s After Hours Email Habit

Beth Kanter

I recently taught several leadership development workshops at the Rutgers Institute for Ethical Leadership based on my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. One of the workshops was focused on technology wellness in the nonprofit workplace , more specifically how to avoid collaboration overload. Collaborative overload is the burnout that results from our over reliance on e-mails, meetings and other online collaborative technology tools that have, ironic

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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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5 Lessons on Employee Engagement From Ari Weinzweig

Association Success

Learn the highlights from our interview with Ari. Ari Weinzweig is co-founder of Zingerman’s Community of Businesses, which is world-renowned for their superior customer service. Due to his great success in applying The Zingerman’s Approach , he now teaches other businesses and organizations the same principles. AssociationSuccess.org recently interviewed Ari, which turned into a very valuable conversation about employee engagement.

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Report: Marketing Hires Are on the Rise

Associations Now

A new McKinley Marketing Partners report shows that digital marketing hires are on the rise. It also reveals that a majority of job seekers are open to the idea of working for nonprofits but are concerned about lower salaries. The evolution of digital marketing tools hasn’t eliminated the need for marketers. It’s actually heightened the demand for talented marketers, according to McKinley Marketing Partners’ 2017 Marketing Hiring Trends Report [PDF].

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Member-Proofing Your Association

Smooth The Path

A four-year-old was throwing mulch all over the sidewalk at the local zoo. An hour later the mulch was still there creating a tripping hazard for others walking on the path. The zoo didn’t guest-proof their grounds. You may have had this experience at zoos, museums, and other smaller attractions. Interactive exhibits are broken, and buttons don’t work.

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Conversations, Collaboration and Chemistry

Velvet Chainsaw

Judith E. Glaser, an author, business executive, and self-described “organizational anthropologist,” says science has now proven that the chemical nature of relationships, conversations and collaboration is more than an attraction metaphor: it’s a reality. So the quality of our conversations — especially those participants have with others at conferences and meetings — has a direct chemical impact on them, those around them, and therefore on the organizations they belong to.

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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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Want to engage millennials? Don’t call them “activists.”

Achieve

It’s no secret that millennials (those born 1980-2000) want to do good. To this generation, social issue engagement is much more than an action; instead, it is engrained in their very identities. They want to give their time, money and skill to the causes they’re passionate about, and they want to feel that their involvement makes a difference. We’ve heard these statements from millennials themselves, and we have reported on them throughout the entirety of the Millennial Impact Project.

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Five Ways for Getting the Most Out of Your Sponsorship Packages

Associations Now

Sponsorships are a great way to bring in nondues revenue to either your national association or one of its chapters. Here are five tips for creating a successful sponsorship program. One of the main challenges that associations face is coming up with enough revenue to meet their bottom lines and fund their various programs and initiatives. Association chapters feel this challenge acutely, due to their limited scope and resources.

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Leverage this tool to transform your association marketing

SilkStart

I think you’ll agree with me, it’s a constant struggle to engage your blog readers with new and interesting content. Even if you come up with a great blog idea, nail the length and formatting, and create a catchy title, there is no guarantee that your post will attract a large readership. I was recently looking for tools that associations could use to inject some life into their blog posts, and stumbled across a website that I’ve now started to use each time I create a blog.

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How To Focus When You Work in An Open Office Space

Beth Kanter

In the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , my co-author Aliza Sherman and I share a framework to think more broadly about creating a culture of wellbeing in the workplace. It includes our relationship with our physical environment and in the workplace that refers to the nonprofit’s physical office space. When nonprofits invest in creating physical spaces that inspire employees to show up for work, staff is more engaged, productive, happy, and healthy.

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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.