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I’ve Looked at RFPs from Both Sides Now

Spark Consulting

Reposting this (slightly edited) Thanks for Playing classic, because this topic has come up recently on ASAE’s Collaborate online community. In 18+ years in association management, I’ve been on both sides of the Request For Proposal process more times than I can count. My very first Big Task at my very first association Real Job way back in 1997 was to complete an association management software system selection.

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Need More Revenue? Are You Generating Enough From Non-Dues?

Wild Apricot

Are you maximizing your potential for supplier non-dues revenue? Here are details of a new article by Bob Jonas – Non-dues Revenue: The Basics – available in our Knowledge Hub.

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Speed and Trust - Why Millennials Need Both

Higher Logic

There is a big problem brewing on the horizon for many organizations. Based on our research, the Millennial generation is coming into the workforce expecting something that most, especially associations, are truly bad at: speed. The Millennial generation expects things to be fast. You can call them “entitled” for wanting that if you like, but it’s a simple fact that the pace of the world increased dramatically as they were growing up.

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Making friends…not just a sale

Aaron Wolowiec

Event/meeting planners: Remember the days of paper RFPs? Well, some of you may still be doing those…but technology has revolutionized the meetings industry – on both sides. According to a new Social Tables report , technological advances and social media have changed the way hotel sales teams network with meeting planners. “With most people now familiar with a wide range of devices, software and apps, this is spurring a rise in ‘social selling,’ where hotel sales teams are often building relatio

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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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Spinach and Standards: Much in Common

Virtual

My neighbor is a spinach farmer. Because his work is so much different than mine, I ask him about it whenever I can. What I’ve learned most through our conversations is that in farming, timing is everything. This past week is a great example of that. Ordinarily my neighbor would have seeded for his spring crop last week, to ensure that the seedlings would mature enough to survive the first frost.

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Meet Your Community Manager: Lindsay Starke

Higher Logic

Ever wonder who the people behind the curtain are here at Higher Logic? We're introducing you to our three community managers. They’ll talk about why they love community management, helpful resources to use and weigh in on the dog versus cat debate (as you can see, this is serious stuff…). In this third installment, we’re introducing our final community manager, Lindsay Starke.

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The Future State of Associations

Potomac Core

In his book “Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time” Howard Schultz, Starbucks President & CEO says “Vision is what they call it when others can’t see what you see.” In a slow domestic growth and a global uncertain economy, how will the future state of associations be defined? Disruption. Demographics, global political and economic changes and challenges, massive industry consolidation, the gig economy, driverless cars , as well as jobs (and industries) bei

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Your Moment in the Spotlight

Eric Lanke

You can spend all day, maybe all week, getting ready for your moment in the spotlight. That time when the attention of a crowd turns to you and you have a small window to make a big impact. Waiting for that moment to arrive creates anxiety. And if you let that anxiety show when your moment comes, you’ll waste it. People won't hear your message, they'll only hear your anxiety.

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Tomorrow’s #CultureChat: The Role of Core Values in Culture

Jamie Notter

My post last week about Core Values got quite a bit of attention (thank you for the mention, SmartBrief!), so we decided to do this month's #CultureChat on that topic: the role of core values in culture. Clearly developing core values is a box that many organizations feel needs to be checked when doing culture work, but are they really that valuable?

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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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Six Reasons You Can’t Miss the HUG Super Forum 2015

Higher Logic

Still on the fence about joining us and the rest of the Higher Logic Community for Super Forum this October? We know it happens every year, but every year is different and exciting. Here are six reasons that should convince you to attend Super Forum this year! 1. Three great keynote speakers. Usually we only have two keynote speakers, but this year we’re bringing you three.

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The Powerful Benefits of Mentorship

Associations Now

Respondents to a new survey from the Internet Marketing Association reported strong benefits of mentorship. Find out some tips for ensuring a successful mentoring relationship. Do you have a mentor—someone to offer advice, wisdom, or guidance on career decisions large and small? A new survey from the Internet Marketing Association found that those with mentors find significant benefits from this type of relationship from an early age, and many people are seeking out mentors.

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Harnessing the Power of Video

Association Adviser

Incorporating video into an association’s communications portfolio is a smart choice. According to Cisco Systems, Inc. in the next three years, 74 percent of all Internet traffic will be video. Learn. For more about this topic, click on the headline.

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You Choose: Bloated Painfully Slow Blimp Or Stealth Agile Fighter Jet

Velvet Chainsaw

Recently I saw the Goodyear Blimp circling a major Dallas freeway. It bounced up and down with the intensity of a bobble-head-frenzy. Several times it plunged nose-first in a new direction. It was clunky and off target—at least it looked like it was astray. It was also painfully slow.Some association governance structures have bloated into blimps, frustrating everyone but the historians, legalists and nostaglists.

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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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Integrating Membership Marketing Channels to Grow Your Association

Membership Marketing

The truth is that there is no stand-alone marketing channel that can fully support membership marketing. You may hear marketers say that they have done away with direct mail and now only communicate with email. Or they only use inbound or content marketing and do not send messages to prospective members through traditional outbound efforts. But the proverb “a cord of three strands is not quickly broken” certainly applies here.

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Is Your Staff Trained to Sell Membership?

Associations Now

Any association staffer who interacts with members and prospects influences the membership experience. Research from the retail sector suggests simple training on member benefits could sharply enhance your staff’s ability to positively engage members. It was more than three years ago, at the ASAE Annual Meeting & Expo in Dallas, that author Dan Pink told association executives “ We’re all in sales now.” Pink contended that we’d entered an era of “nonsales

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Nonprofits and Instagram: The Ultimate Curated Collection of Best Practices, Examples, and Tips

Beth Kanter

Earlier this month, when Instagram announced its user community had grown to more than 400 million, it reminded me that I needed to update my curated collection of Instagram for Nonprofit resources. As a content curator, I’m not just on the hunt for learning and sharing snippets of the new or what’s buzzing. Content curation is ultimately organizing, synthesizing, presenting, and maintaining your resource collections.

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Traditions Can Boost Member Loyalty

SCD Group

I went back to Columbus to an Ohio State football game last week. It happened to be Alumni Band Day and it incorporated alumni cheerleaders and recognition of former championship football and baseball teams. Here is a selection of Ohio State’s Game Day traditions: Skull Session: This is the band’s rehearsal and open to the public. It draws about 14,000 people for the hour.

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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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Groups Can Collaborate for Success

Plexus Consulting

Groups Can Collaborate for Success By Tavia Evans Gilchrist: As a tight economy challenges corporate members and associations to look for new ways to add member value, effective partnerships with other groups, the private sector and the government will become critical to the success of many organizations. The biggest hurdle is identifying those partners who share common goals, strategy, mission and philosophy, said Keith Skillman, vice president of publications at ASAE, who worked on the book's

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Life Insurance Industry Still Struggling to Engage With Millennials

Associations Now

Life insurance providers are always reaching out to prospective customers, but one group remains more elusive than all others: millennials. September is Life Insurance Awareness Month , and as it draws to a close, an inability to attract millennials remains one of the industry’s biggest challenges. Less than 20 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 say they are “likely” to buy life insurance, according to trade group LIMRA.

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How the Pope Is Connecting with Younger Generations on Social Media: Pope Emojis

Beth Kanter

As you probably know, the Pope is visiting the United States this week in Washington, DC; Philadelphia; and New York City. While the crowds will gather on the ground for a change to touch the hand of Pontiff, there will be a lot of crowds online to celebrate his visit. By creating the #GoodIsWinning hashtag and launching PopeIsHope accounts across many social media platforms that especially target Millennials and Gen Z , the Pope’s visit will amplify social change messages around clima

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I’ve Looked at RFPs from Both Sides Now – Part 2

Spark Consulting

Reposting this (slightly edited) Thanks for Playing classic, because this topic has come up recently on ASAE’s Collaborate online community. Clients aren’t the only ones who could use some advice to make the Request for Proposal (RFP) process go more smoothly. Over the years, I’ve seen plenty of good, bad, and ugly in vendor responses, too. To that end….

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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 Nonprofits That Caught Volkswagen Red-Handed

Associations Now

Revelations of corporate dishonesty have shaken the auto giant this month. Those revelations emerged thanks to the work of two environmental advocacy groups. The European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E) caught the world’s largest auto manufacturer in a systemic lie, one that will cost Volkswagen billions. The advocacy organization, which promotes standards for environmentally conscious, sustainable transportation, worked with the International Council on Clean Transporta

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How One Association Tackled a Conference Diversity Problem

Associations Now

The 2015 Online News Association annual meeting boasts a diverse speaker lineup. That’s no accident: It’s the result of a deliberate effort to respond to member criticism about past conferences. Tech conferences have taken their share of hard knocks for failing to reflect and promote industry diversity. Among them is the annual meeting hosted by the Online News Association, which focuses on the convergence of technology and journalism.

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Thanks to a New Association, Your Tattoos Can Live Forever

Associations Now

”Every tattoo tells a story,” says the National Association for the Preservation of Skin Art. The new group was formed to help preserve tattoos of the deceased for their families and loved ones. It’s common for people to leave houses, investments, or family heirlooms to loved ones when they die. But a new service will allow individuals to bequeath their tattoos, and it’s brought to you by an association.

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The Data-Collection Backlash

Associations Now

Collecting data about members through websites and other technical means is a fact of life for many associations. But can you go too far? Let’s ask a few difficult questions. Does being transparent about your technology strategy automatically mean you’re in the right? Antivirus maker AVG learned the lesson over the weekend: maybe not. The Czech company announced that it would begin anonymously tracking user browsing habits , collecting data that it could then sell to third parties as

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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.