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Announcing an Entirely New Methodology for Member Research

Smooth The Path

The associations with high member engagement know their members well. In fact, you might work at one of these member engagement unicorns. Do staff regularly conduct member research? Are listening tours, welcome calls, or member interviews on your list of to-dos? Is behavioral data continually monitored?

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Daily Buzz: A Better Strategy for Member Research

Associations Now

“The two methods work well together, especially when the qualitative research is conducted first, and the results are used to write the quantitative survey,” she explains. How to Declutter Your CRM’s Email Marketing and Make it More Efficient [link]. Clean Your List. — Business 2 Community (@B2Community) January 26, 2019.

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Daily Buzz: Hone Your Data Management Process

Associations Now

“With all of the effort taken to learn about members and collect the data you find, you don’t want it all to just disappear into the void with the blink of an eye,” Hopkins says. From there, your team should develop an organization-wide data management process. Revamp the Exam Process. As for outdated data? Get rid of it. “It

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Use the 5-Step Idea Process to Become an Association Innovation Ninja

Smooth The Path

Because ideas lead to innovation we want more ideas, better ideas, THE idea that will excite members. Many innovative associations use a formal or informal idea process which generally has five steps and goes something like this: Step #1: Allow member’s problems spark innovative ideas. Learn about member’ why.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.9.21

Reid All About it

Find out how conversational email helps improve reply rates, scale outreach, and unlock email’s hidden potential. Learn how to send emails that people actually want to open, leverage proven strategies and tactics for writing conversational emails, and measure and optimize your conversational email results. More info/register.

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Understand the Three Professional Stages to Improve Association Value

Smooth The Path

The results of years of member research show that high-performing professionals tend to move through three stages during their career. Here is another way to look for gaps in your association’s value proposition. They recognize that they have a lot to learn and they want to prove or distinguish themselves.

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Daily Buzz: How Dark Social Is Skewing Your Data

Associations Now

So, how to get around dark social shares? If you’re launching a new website, take a hint from the Healthcare Financial Management Association , says member researcher Amanda Kaiser on Smooth the Path. The MemberSuite blog explains the art and science of the process. — Keith R. Confused about marketing segmentation?