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How to Leverage Your Association’s Super-Members

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Super-members are members who are so engaged, so seasoned, so advanced in the profession or industry they are not like most members. If your board members fit this profile, they are not good candidates for focus groups to determine the member experience. Don’t ask them to guess what new members need or want.

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How to Recruit and Engage an Entirely New Generation of Members

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Young professionals might not be interested in industry advocacy right now, but they might be interested in how to start off right in their first months on the job. (By By the way, I conduct member research that studies the needs of new and younger members if you want to understand your members’ needs by career stage).

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How to Exponentially Improve Member Engagement at Any Association

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The only thing preventing our association from becoming the top of mind resource, the organization members are trying to figure out how to become more engaged with, and the one members rave to their colleagues about is… Simply, our understanding of members. Deeply understanding members is at the root of it all.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.3.19

Reid All About it

Amanda Kaiser dispels three myths on why people join associations and reveals the real reason—based on her member research. Learn how to overcome barriers to embracing new technologies and see a real-world example of the impact automation can make. Explore how to build a personal brand that showcases you as an expert.

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Many Organizations Accidentally Ignore New Members

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My first-year member experience lines up with many other new member’s experiences according to member research. Associations tend to have very robust renewal programs, but meager new member onboarding programs. Three Ways to Make Your New Member Onboarding Program the Best It Can Be.

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Learn About Members’ Why

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Learn how to spread your great ideas and get them acted upon. Understand how to seed and nurture the culture your company needs. Just like – what doesn’t make for a very compelling story but, why does – what doesn’t make for very actionable member insights but why does.

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Engaging Not New or Long, But Medium-Time Members with Your Association

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While conducting member research new members and long-time members share why they engage with their association (and why they don’t). Related: How new members are prompted to engage. The new member engagement rule of three. How to exponentially improve member engagement at any association.