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A recipe for volunteer success: How to recruit, educate, and retain

Ungrated

Veteran community association leaders say whipping up a plan to recruit, educate, and retain volunteers is essential to volunteer success and is a delicate mix that includes patience, flexibility, solid coaching, and listening skills—plus a dash of strong commitment to community. Blank sheets of paper are volunteer kryptonite.”

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Membership Hack: Recruitment Competition for Chapters

Associations Now

How to hack it? The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is in the final few weeks of its fall membership drive, and last week it upped the ante by announcing cash and prize incentives that will be awarded its top recruiters. The post Membership Hack: Recruitment Competition for Chapters appeared first on Associations Now.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.15.21

Reid All About it

How to be more productive working from home: 9 rules for the “now normal.” Learn how to measure your current ROI in actual dollar numbers, use the numbers for influencing the membership decision, grow your ROI, and prove beyond a doubt that membership in your organization is a good business decision. Mon 1/18 at 11 a.m. –

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 2.19.21

Reid All About it

Membership recruitment. s (MGI) annual membership benchmarking report, so I’ve put this new book by Tony Rossell, MGI’s senior vice president, on my list: How to Grow Recurring Revenue, Reach New Markets, and Achieve Your Mission. – How to Become a Better Boss. I love Marketing General Inc.’s Quick hits.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.21.17

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Billhighway explains how to help your chapters and volunteer leaders stay safe. Learn how to create game-based learning interventions to teach complex problem solving skills. Learn how to be prepared to negotiate additional goods and services. Know how to be smart when requesting concessions. Duration: 1 hour.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 10.12.18

Reid All About it

WBT Systems explains how to motivate members to buy what you’re selling. She suggests ways you can learn how to speak like an industry insider. A few quick hits before we get to this week’s list of free webinars: How New York’s post-WW2 female painters battled for recognition. ( How to explain content marketing to anyone.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 11.4.16

Reid All About it

Habits have been a hot topic on the best-seller list, first with Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (a good read), then Gretchen Rubin’s Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Life (still in the bookcase), and now Nir Eyal’s Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. Host: PCMA.

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