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Integrate for Success: 3 Sweet Results of AMS Integrations

Higher Logic

The post Integrate for Success: 3 Sweet Results of AMS Integrations appeared first on Higher Logic. Why integrate? If your association management software (AMS) can talk to the engagement tools in your tech stack, you can power a much more personalized experience for your members. The post Integrate for Success: 3 Sweet Results of AMS Integrations appeared first on Higher Logic.

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How To Negotiate Sponsorship Packages

AssociationChat

I want to share my absolute favorite tip to give associations on negotiating with sponsors. Copyright Mackenzie Freemire/app.deathtothestockphoto.com. “Yes, if.”. When a sponsor asks if they can get a lower price, don’t say no. That can come across as confrontational, although I do recommend clear boundaries of the price that matches the value you provide.

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3 ways to get started with your association’s artificial intelligence journey

Nimble AMS

At one point, artificial intelligence (AI) sounded like something from a science fiction novel. But today, it’s changing the way we interact with organizations in our everyday lives. Leading companies like Amazon and Netflix use AI and predictive analytics technology to connect with consumers and provide the highly personalized experiences we’ve all come to expect.

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7 Reasons Why You Need a Volunteer Onboarding Process

Wild Apricot

Do you have a group of new volunteers starting at your organization? If so, you only have one chance to make a good first impression and welcome them into your community — it all starts with a great volunteer onboarding process. Read on to find.

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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 Subscriptions and Corporate Learning Portals Helped the Alliance Quintuple Online Education Revenue

WBT Systems

How Subscriptions and Corporate Learning Portals Helped the Alliance Quintuple Online Education Revenue. Read more about How Subscriptions and Corporate Learning Portals Helped the Alliance Quintuple Online Education Revenue.

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8 Tips to Build Diverse and Inclusive Virtual Events

Aaron Wolowiec

Building an inclusive, open, and diverse event is crucial in keeping your audience engaged. Here are some of the top and best practices you can follow to do just that!

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.16.21

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Online education revenue. WBT Systems recapped a recent Non-Dues-A-Palooza webinar where Will Hold, the CEO of the National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research, described how his association quintupled their online education revenue by offering subscriptions, corporate learning portals and learning paths focused on job roles.

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How to Ensure Your AMS Reports Include The Right Data

Membersuite

Every association management software (AMS) company loves to demonstrate how their AMS meets an association’s requirements. The association staff on the project team care about these functions and features, but most of their co-workers only care about one thing: reports. Reports provide the information you and your colleagues need to better understand your members, customers, and prospects.

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Customer Experience Lifts Service to the Stratosphere

.orgSource

These comments from McDonald’s CEO, Chris Kempczinski to New York Times journalist David Gelles describing how the pandemic would change the company’s business resonated with me on a couple of levels. “We had to pivot to basically being an entirely drive-through, delivery, and curbside pickup business, and I think that’s going to still be an […].

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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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Speaker Spotlight: Jeff Cobb

Aaron Wolowiec

Jeff Cobb helps individuals and organizations leverage the power of learning to navigate change, drive innovation, and shape a brighter future.

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How to Kill Your Digital Community

AssociationChat

Have you noticed? Community has become a hot topic. This is especially true for folks who realized during the pandemic that if you rely on in-person ANYTHING to create a connection between people and your organization, you have a pretty big Achilles heel just waiting for its own poison arrow. “Digital placemaking and IRL community” are the order of the day.

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Ready to respond: Preparing your community for a natural disaster

Ungrated

The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season officially began five weeks ago and has already recorded five named storms. Forecasters predicted this season would be more active than most, and recently revised original predictions from an anticipated 17 named storms to 20. With months still to go, community association board members and managers can take several actions to ensure the community is prepared for a natural disaster. .

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15 Elements of Successful Nonprofit Membership Programs

MemberClicks

Building a nonprofit membership program from the ground-up can seem daunting. But m embership program s are one of the best way s for nonprofits to create reliable revenue stream s — and stronger relationships with their supporters.

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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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Essential Summer Maintenance Tips for Your Home

AMG

Essential Summer Maintenance Tips for Your Home The summer temperatures can take a toll on your home. Every season homeowners should have a maintenance list for the home. Here is a list of summer to-do items. Inspect Your Home's Exterior It was a long winter, and it’s time to inspect your home’s exterior for things that could put it at risk in the future.

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Leading by Example: Lloyd Brown, American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials

Association Adviser

Lloyd Brown explains how he leads his communications teams by example and how he continues to develop himself as an association communications leader. The post Leading by Example: Lloyd Brown, American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials appeared first on Association Adviser.

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Liability protection: State laws facilitate community pool operations

Ungrated

Many community association residents have enjoyed cooling off at pools this summer as more boards opened the amenity in 2021 with appropriate COVID-19 restrictions in place. Other communities have elected a cautious approach to their pool season, looking to state laws for guidance or limited liability protection. Only about 9% of the 1,000 CAI members responding to a survey this spring said they would delay opening their pools compared to 30% in 2020, but more than a quarter of respondents were

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[GUEST BLOG] How to Engage Members Who Won’t Consistently Attend In-Person Events

GrowthZone

by Frank Kenny. Your chamber or association is probably holding in-person events again, or soon will be. These events will most likely be very well-attended, as people are eager to return to normalcy. You might think that everything is back to the usual engagement-wise, but now is not the time to sit back and relax. Yes, people will turn out in droves for your first few in-person events, at least to see old friends again and reconnect.

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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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Delivering value at every stage of the member journey

Aptify

From your members’ viewpoint, the value your organization provides will evolve as they move through their careers. That’s why it’s important to consider how you provide member value through both the entire member journey (from joining through renewal) and each step of your members’ career journey (from student to retiree). With this idea in mind, here’s how to deliver more value at each point along the member journey to drive greater member acquisition, engagement, and retention: Acquisition.

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Want to Up Your Content Game? The 4 Most Important Questions to Ask Now

Association Freak

Reading Time: 3 minutes The online content your nonprofit creates tells a story. It highlights the importance of your work and accomplishments. Done well, it can further your mission by attracting new members and inspiring constituents to action. Now that the pandemic has moved so much of our lives online, your nonprofit’s content strategy is more important than ever. … Continue reading "Want to Up Your Content Game?

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Hybrid Event Safety: A Brief Guide

CommPartners

The events industry is at a crossroads. We can see the end of COVID-19, but we can still feel its sting. A return to in-person events has begun. Still, we have to remember: the pandemic isn’t over yet. A growing body of evidence indicates that SARS-CoV-2 will become endemic. In less scientific terms, this means […].

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Budget Tips for Hybrid Meetings

Association TRENDS

Planning a hybrid event is like planning two events simultaneously! Don’t be surprised by hidden fees or surprise costs. This checklist from Cadmium rounds up what you need to consider to successfully live stream your event, deliver exceptional engagement experiences to your audiences, and take your speaker needs into consideration. Click here to download this resource today!

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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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The Importance of Content Strategy for Healthcare and Hospitals

Arc 3 Communications

According to Google Health Vice President, Dr. David Feinberg, MD an estimated 7 percent of Google’s daily searches are health related. This number does not include the recent COVID-19 pandemic which has undoubtedly driven these numbers upward. This makes it imperative that hospitals and healthcare providers have strong, up to date, accurate information on their website.

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Want to Up Your Content Game? The 4 Most Important Questions to Ask Now

Association Freak

Reading Time: 3 minutes The online content your nonprofit creates tells a story. It highlights the importance of your work and accomplishments. Done well, it can further your mission by attracting new members and inspiring constituents to action. Now that the pandemic has moved so much of our lives online, your nonprofit’s content strategy is more important than ever. … Continue reading "Want to Up Your Content Game?

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A Membership Marketing Conversation

Membership Marketing

What has been the impact of the pandemic on membership this past year? And how can associations regain a growth trajectory? In my recent interview, we discussed these topics with insights from the 2021 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report and the recently released book, Membership Recruitment: How to Grow RecurringRevenue, Reach New Markets and Advance Your Mission.

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5 Key Take-a-Ways from the Events Revenue Summit

Eplys

As we approach the mid-year point of 2021, COVID is sadly not in the rear-view mirror quite yet. The Events Revenue Summit gave us a glimpse into where event professionals are not only in-terms of generating revenue from their events but how they are developing their approaches for the remainder of 2021 and beyond. A few key themes developed across the 15 sessions, panel discussions and round tables with event professionals, industry colleagues, and partners from organizations and associations b

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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.