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CMA Wins 6 Industry Awards For Creative Design, Publications

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Consider the most recent examples of industry excellence: Collateral: Magazine Design IMARK Now Electrical magazine, which won top honors, featured an eye-catching, streamlined design that elevated the content that offered readers insight on management strategies, tactical insight on logistics, productivity and margins.

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What is Customer Experience (CX)? Crash Course

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According to NPOInfo’s charitable giving statistics, 57% of associations report that word-of-mouth is their most successful method for recruiting members. For example, you may already use your membership software to create member customer profiles. Boost word-of-mouth referrals. Measure your performance using surveys.

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Marketing Resources for Associations and Small Businesses

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They also have editions covering Baltimore and Philadelphia. That means positioning us as more of a thought leader, releasing off-the-shelf reports at least three times per year, bringing together industry experts with peers in panel discussions that complement our research results…. Read the complete column here. Hinge Marketing.

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Survey: Size Matters When Running An Association Today

Associations Now

70 % The amount of mid-size and large associations that reported now is a good time to be running a membership organization, according to Virtual, Inc. In comparison, 52 percent of small associations reported an optimistic outlook. Slightly more than half reported using QuickBooks as the financial software they use.

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Five Things You Might Not Know About Halloween

Associations Now

The 186-year-old Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia houses Terror Behind the Walls, a massive haunted-house production with a cast of more than 200 performers each evening, Hollywood-quality sets, and animatronics. Many people believe the prison is haunted: As early as the 1940s, officers and inmates reported spooky occurrences.

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Amtrak Derailment Puts Transit Groups’ Issues Front and Center

Associations Now

On Tuesday night, Amtrak’s problems—particularly related to funding and infrastructure—were on display in a dramatic derailment of a New York City-bound train outside of Philadelphia. Last night, for example, CNN reported on the potential of positive-train-control technology to improve safety.

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Is Minimum-Wage Opposition Beginning to Soften?

Associations Now

But recently some restaurants in large cities, such as Philadelphia’s Girard Brasserie and Bruncherie , have tried a different tactic: paying servers more while getting rid of tips entirely. “For many nonprofits, an increase in minimum wage is met with mixed—even agonized—feelings,” CalNonprofits reported.