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6 Ways Associations Can Use Webinars to Engage Members and Increase Non-Dues Revenue

Higher Logic

Video conferencing and virtual events have never been more important to business as it is now - especially for associations who need to keep members engaged and revenues high. Associations can run different types of webinars to make up for lost revenue from canceled annual events and continue giving members a helpful, engaging, relevant experience. Check out these six ideas for creating engaging webinars that deliver a valuable experience to your association’s members: Create Educational Opportu

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How do you price a virtual event?

Association Success

As the world adjusts to the “new normal” brought about by COVID-19, organizations everywhere are coming to terms with shifting to virtual distribution of content rather than at in-person events. With organizations preparing to follow through with these shifts, one question seems to be at the forefront of everyone’s minds. How should I price my event?

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.22.20

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… New member onboarding. Does your association have a new member onboarding, orientation or welcoming program? If you do, please participate in the 2020 New Member Engagement Survey from Amanda Kaiser (Kaiser Insights) and Dynamic Benchmarking. The report that came out of their first survey two years ago was full of good information and great ideas so I look forward to this edition.

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How to Host a Virtual Member Appreciation Week in 5 Simple Steps

Wild Apricot

How do you say thank you to your members? If the answer is "we don't", it might be time to consider hosting a member appreciation week!

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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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10 Attendee Complaints About Virtual Conferences—and How to Resolve Them

WBT Systems

10 Attendee Complaints About Virtual Conferences—and How to Resolve Them. Read more about 10 Attendee Complaints About Virtual Conferences—and How to Resolve Them.

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3 ways to increase virtual engagement

Association Success

It’s essential to create useful content to keep your audience engaged with your brand, but that’s more complicated when the majority of the working world is at home because of the coronavirus. Engagement is what brings someone from an interested spectator to a dedicated advocate. So, what are some of the ways we can improve our virtual experiences and get people more involved with our organizations?

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Peer-to-Peer Fundraising: A Guide For Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

If you were told to raise $5,000 by the end of the month, could you do it? Here are the seven key strategies that will help make your next peer-to-peer fundraising campaign a success.

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Volume 2 – Early Impact of COVID 19 on Canadian Associations

Portage Group

Volume 2 of the TPG Pulse for Associations focuses on the impact of COVID 19 on membership, financial viability and staffing. The findings are based on a quantitative survey that was completed by 372 Canadian associations and other nonprofits between April 29 and May 8, 2020. READ NOW.

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Member-Centric Engagement Has Never Been More Critical

Spark Consulting

Join me Wednesday, June 3 at noon for “Leading Engagement from the Outside-In” at Association Insights in Old Town Cyberspace. I’ll be discussing findings from a whitepaper I wrote with Anna Caraveli a little while ago on member-centric engagement. Key takeaways: learning a new definition of member engagement, refocusing engagement to generate real value, and placing engagement at the heart of your membership strategy.

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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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Is your D&O ready for new risks brought by COVID-19?

Association Success

Editor’s note: This blog post originally ran on BrewerPrattSolutions.com. Volunteer leaders play a key role in many nonprofit associations. While elected officers and board members navigate a path for their own businesses and families through the COVID-19 crisis, they are also providing governance to associations during these difficult times. Being a director or officer has always come with obligations, however, the duties of care, loyalty, and obedience now encompass new risks and liabili

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Gym Management Software: 10 Options to Carry You Through Social Distancing

Wild Apricot

Gym management software can help eliminate and streamline administrative tasks from your workload to save you time and money. Here are 4 examples of gym websites to get you pumped, and 10 additional software providers!

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Association Dump Trucks Habitually Bury Members

Smooth The Path

Imagine that you decide to join an association today. You fill out the application and press “JOIN.” Nearly immediately, you hear the familiar email ding, click into the email app, and find a message from the association. Eager to learn more, you click the email open. “Welcome!” it says. “Thank you for joining. For 75 years, we have been providing 28,500 members like you a remarkably long list of benefits.

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Post-Pandemic Recovery for Associations

GrowthZone

A compilation of strategic ideas to help organizations move forward. Over the past six weeks and after thousands of one-on-one conversations with chambers and associations, the GrowthZone team has learned a lot. Many organizations have risen to the occasion, reinventing themselves and are emerging better equipped to provide benefit to their members.

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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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How to foster community in a time of crisis

Association Success

Community is at the heart of our human needs. We thrive off connection, and a community fills these needs. With the coronavirus displacing many communities and forcing people to remove themselves from social situations, how do we nurture community and connection remotely? Here are three great ways to nurture online communities, stay connected with your members and encourage engagement remotely.

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Member Research is Important. So How Should We Do It?

Association Adviser

To keep members invested in your association and industry, it’s important to conduct member research into their priorities & professional needs. Heres' how. The post Member Research is Important. So How Should We Do It? appeared first on Association Adviser.

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Death of a Road Warrior

AssociationChat

A gift from my father. When I graduated from high school, my father bought me a suitcase. He was excited about it, I could tell. He told me about how he’d received one when he graduated from high school and how much it had meant to him. I was less excited. I’d wanted cash. Later, I came to understand why the gift had meant so much to him. The suitcase represented new opportunities, adventure, and an escape from what everyone else was doing in rural southwest Missouri.

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A Prediction for Virtual Conferences in the Future

Smooth The Path

Bill, a member of a professional society, told me about his life-long struggle with social anxiety. Attending a conference was about the most uncomfortable thing he had to do as an adult, he said. New and infrequent attendees say that conferences can be nerve-wracking. Introverts and ambiverts sometimes feel the same. One happy outcome of the recent online conference trend may be that the people who feel shy, awkward, or overwhelmed at in-person meetings get to experience conferences in a new an

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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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3 Phrases That Matter When "Selling" Your Organization's Membership

MemberClicks

Words matter. If you’ve ever done any kind of marketing, you know that. And even as a consumer, you know that. Certain phrases just compel you to make a purchase. So how can you tap into some of that psychology when “selling” your association or chamber’s membership?

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Webinar Q&A: Growing NDR in Times of Crisis & Beyond

Association Adviser

It’s no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impacts are hitting all industries and professions. In a recent Association Adviser webinar, “Growing Non-Dues Revenue in Times of Crisis & Beyond,” Naylor’s Vice President of Digital Operations and Development Laura Taylor and Senior Group Publisher John Bacon talked about new ideas and channels for […].

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Happy National EMS Week!

AssociationChat

Thank you to the helpers. No matter who you are or what you believe, one thing I would hope we can all support is the work that the Emergency Medical Services community of professionals and volunteers provide. These fine folks are out there for our everyday emergencies, showing up on the front lines while a virus we still don’t understand spreads throughout the world.

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What Two Years of Technology Assessments Reveal About Association IT

Delcor

Mike Guerrieri and Dan Lautman present "What Two Years of Technology Assessments Reveal About Association IT," an informative webinar that identifies the five top areas for improvement in the technology domains of data, digital, infrastructure, and management. View the webinar here: Subscribe to our YouTube channel.

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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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On the Mark: Associations Are Winners

MemberClicks

“You are only a success at the moment you perform the successful act. Then you have to go do it again.” - Phil Jackson. I came across this quote while watching “The Last Dance” with my two sons recently. The quote came from the former Chicago Bulls head coach after winning their second title. He’s right. That’s the funny thing about success. You have to repeat it.

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How to Find the Perfect CMS to Improve the Member Digital Experience

Protech

By Ryan Bruffey, MX Business Development Manager. M embers expectations continue to grow at your association. When log ging onto your website , members want an experience that matches their preferred for-profit brands. Any issues during their online visit will be remember ed, and they will find other means to get what they came for. .

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Value Creation During a Crisis (May 2020)

AssociationChat

Are you ready to take your work to a new level? This event features one of Association Chat’s most engaged companies – Map Dynamics ! What you’ll learn. Use guiding questions to design and build projects that create significant value for the people they seek to serve. Discover useful shortcuts by avoiding false starts and expensive pitfalls as they grow.

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Infographic: Moving an Event Online

Association Adviser

As restrictions and guidance around large-scale gatherings like conferences and trade shows remain in place for the foreseeable future, associations continue to look at how they can best transition events online – either in full or by offering certain elements in a virtual format. Here are nine steps to make sure that the shift to […]. The post Infographic: Moving an Event Online appeared first on Association Adviser.

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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.