article thumbnail

4 Steps to Inspire Innovation in Your Association

Socious

“Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Many people believe innovation is all about inventing and releasing new products. Innovation is so much more than just revamping products or services. Innovation is so much more than just revamping products or services. Defining Innovation.

article thumbnail

New Report Reveals a Rebound in Membership Numbers

Associations Now

Marketing General Incorporated’s 2023 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report found that associations are experiencing an increase in membership following declines during the pandemic. That growth was correlated with associations that have compelling value propositions, embrace innovation, and focus on recruitment.

Report 98
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Peek Behind the Scenes of One Innovative Annual Conference for New Ideas to Use at Your Annual Conference

Smooth The Path

What is particularly interesting about this year’s conference is the team methodically set about meeting some of members’ biggest challenges. Here are the top challenges we all have and here is what we did about them: New Members Feel Like Outsiders. We are having to innovate but innovation is new, uncertain and risky.

article thumbnail

Member Engagement Is Not Convenient for Us

Smooth The Path

Change and innovation are inconvenient. Building member engagement is inconvenient. Providing value-based member marketing is far more inconvenient than promotional marketing. In my line of work qualitative, interview-based member research is waaaayyy more inconvenient than fielding a survey.

article thumbnail

Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.9.21

Reid All About it

Charlene Li believes you need order to create change —not what you picture when thinking about innovative organizations. Another example of wishful thinking disguised as conventional wisdom: Claire Cain Miller at the New York Times says there’s no evidence that chance meetings at the office boost innovation. Order and change.

article thumbnail

How to Recruit and Engage an Entirely New Generation of Members

Smooth The Path

Focusing on current stale offerings and not on innovations. Focusing on one segment of membership, but not on younger members. Each one of these behaviors can be deadly, but the last one, focusing more on younger members may have the power to solve all the others. Focusing on the wrong key industry issues.

article thumbnail

Daily Buzz: How Dark Social Is Skewing Your Data

Associations Now

Dark social shares mean your team could be basing its marketing insights—and budget—on inaccurate data. For your performance marketing team, “dark social” might as well be the dark side of the moon. In fact, one report says about 84 percent of social shares happen via dark social, according to marketing firm RhythmOne.