Association Success

MAY 21, 2019

Is your association paying attention to trends and changes in market behaviors? In Segmenting Your Market - Part 1 , we introduced the topic of how associations have more than just diverse members, but how industry suppliers or similar communities present a varied market to be examined.

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Velvet Chainsaw

DECEMBER 11, 2019

If your conference is like most, sponsorship revenue is underperforming. There are two benchmarks we like to use to identify healthy conference revenue business models: Industry revenue — 30 percent or more of a conference’s total revenue should come from the combination of sponsor, exhibit and advertising revenue.

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Higher Logic

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Driven by a change in what members want and are willing to pay for, associations are seeing changes in their key revenue streams, including which income sources sustain their organizations. Where Associations Get Their Revenue Today. Non-dues, or non-subscription, revenue. percent of their revenue from membership dues.

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GrowthZone

APRIL 20, 2021

Consider the difference between your marketing plan and the “game” played by mass media. What do print magazines forget to explain? Back to our example, broadcast and magazine advertisers often waste money on a broad audience that has no use for their product or service. Advertising is mass.

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MAY 14, 2021

Marketing copy. If you’re frequently under pressure to come up with clever and compelling marketing copy, I feel for you. That’s when marketers turn to their swipe file: a collection of copied and pasted blurbs that hopefully provide inspiration. Host: American Marketing Association. Event safety. More info/register.

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Association Adviser

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Non-dues revenue supports associations’ missions in so many ways: Providing exceptional training and education for members, financing lobbying efforts, keeping membership dues affordable, and offsetting the costs of your communication program, to name a few. John Bacon, Naylor Association Solutions.

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EventMobi: Association Events

AUGUST 11, 2023

Building an association website with valuable content and an attractive web design can help you: Retain current members Attract new members Raise the value of your sponsor packages Boost event registrations Drive non dues revenue Gather key data about member behavior Curious about what makes an association website shine? Members-only spaces.

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Higher Logic

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

You can increase non-dues revenue with an online store, deliver benefits with user-generated content, and engage members with discussion forums and blog posts. Why is an online community better than a conference or a members-only magazine? Event registration and other non-dues revenue streams. It’s perfect. Member engagement.

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MAY 21, 2021

Deep dive into MPI’s most recent Meetings Outlook research, published quarterly in The Meeting Professional magazine, and then discuss the trends that are most affecting you and your peers. Presenter: Carole Stizza, PCC, SHRM-SCP, executive leadership coach, senior HR professional and strength strategy specialist. 1 CMP credit.

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Association Success

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Though people once gladly paid for newspapers, books and magazines, today’s readers have a never-ending library of free content at their fingertips. . MORE: 4 trends to adopt for an effective member strategy. Freemium content can refresh your marketing materials. Yet traditional marketing tends to do a lot of telling. .

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AUGUST 6, 2021

Billhighway, Mariner Management and Whorton Marketing & Research are conducting The State of Chapters 2021 Benchmarking Survey. Does your association want to understand the needs and interests of different segments of your membership and market? Fri 8/6 at 12 p.m.* – AI Now for Associations: Strategy: Where Do I Start?

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Associations Now

AUGUST 14, 2023

During a session at the 2023 ASAE Annual Meeting & Expo, the American Staffing Association shared how that strategy has worked for them. Create Thought Leadership In 2019, ASA wanted to reposition itself in the market, so they brought in a marketing firm to do an assessment. That prompted ASA to get creative.

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Association Success

JULY 16, 2020

Content curation is a way to strengthen your content marketing efforts without having to invest a ton of time and money in creating original content like blog posts. Still, it takes energy and strategy to curate content well. These are the leading content curation tools for marketers in 2020. Why curate content? Price: Free.

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Tools Content Marketing Newsletter 122

Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 15, 2022

In my experience, most large conferences this year are realizing about 80 percent of their 2019 revenue performance. For some of the major annual meetings we’re tracking, sponsorship revenue has been a bright spot when compared to exhibit revenue performance. Opportunities sell out.

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JULY 10, 2020

So I nearly jumped out of my chair in joy when I saw an open letter in Harper’s Magazine signed by 150 famous people (dare I say, intellectuals) who are also concerned about the illiberal cancel culture and self-righteous trolling going on right now. WBT Systems describes nine virtual event strategies that minimize Zoom fatigue.

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Association Adviser

MAY 29, 2018

Thankfully, there are varied approaches to increase non-dues revenue (NDR) from member communication. Whatever the approach, the common principle in practice is: The more value your communication programs can provide to BOTH members and advertisers, the better positioned your association is to earn higher non-dues revenue.

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JUNE 21, 2019

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Maggie McGary shares insights from the Community Roundtable’s 10th Annual State of Community Management report and cross-references them with findings from MGI’s Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report. Jen Maltba, Marketing Manager at Cvent.

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Association Adviser

DECEMBER 17, 2018

” – Josh Spradling, CAE, TSAE Marketing & Communications Director. Like many associations, the Texas Society of Association Executives relies heavily on its print publication as a tool to engage members and earn non-dues revenue. With a new design direction, TSAE then revamped its content strategy. The Challenge.

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.orgSource

MARCH 18, 2024

Sharon Rice is Managing Director of Business Strategy at.orgSource and Garth Jordan is CEO of the American Animal Hospital Association. Both are steeped in the world of associations and are avid students of strategy, business, and culture beyond this industry. Our value is not in a magazine or even standards.

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Association Adviser

APRIL 15, 2014

Our research shows only half of associations ask advertisers and sponsors if they’re getting their money’s worth—only about 60 percent incorporate that feedback into pricing strategies. Many associations overestimate how much revenue a new NDR program will generate and underestimate how much time and resources it will require.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Everyone (well, most everyone) knows the benefits of content marketing. Valeria Maltoni says, “There are three crucial challenges to overcome if you want to implement a successful content strategy ” – resource allocation, workflow planning and governance. How will this impact marketing? It is happening again,” says Augie Ray.

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Association Adviser

OCTOBER 13, 2016

More than half (54 percent) of the executives who took part in our annual association communication benchmarking study felt their organization’s inability to generate non-dues-revenue (NDR) was a serious or significant challenge — up substantially from 2015. Percent of Associations agreeing that NDR is a serious challenge: 2016. ** 54%.

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GrowthZone

AUGUST 2, 2022

According to the ACCE website, ACCE’s Awards for Communications Excellence program is designed to showcase the top communications and marketing work of chambers of commerce and similar organizations. The chamber describes the “Beyond the Line” magazine as “taking a deeper dive into our region than most directories.

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JULY 30, 2021

Non-dues revenue. 55 days from now, you could be in Nashville hanging around with people whose associations are rolling in non-dues revenue and people who want to emulate their success. Why niche communities are the future of social media marketing—associations should have an advantage here. The countdown is on! Host: Cimatri.

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Association Adviser

MARCH 27, 2018

In this realm, associations save on the overhead costs of producing member communication publications and the back-office management of content, revenue tracking and strategic planning. Beyond generating non-dues revenue, advertising can engage association members and supplement a publication’s content strategy.

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MAY 29, 2020

It covers virtual event strategy and technology, including a list of platforms for different purposes. Virtual learning strategies. MemberSuite suggests several strategies for designing a more effective and memorable virtual learning experience. Presenters: Graham Harvey, Chief Strategy Officer, Matchbox Virtual Media.

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JUNE 26, 2020

In an interview with Knowable Magazine, social psychologist Anthony Greenwald explains what works and what doesn’t work to curb implicit bias. Presenters: Graham Harvey, Chief Strategy Officer, Matchbox Virtual Media. Build a Sponsorship Strategy Focused on Monetizing Your In-Person & Digital Events. Implicit bias.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Using the strategies identified in this presentation, every conference professional can create event experiences where engagement is the norm, not the exception. Deb Fiscella, president, Center Stage Marketing. Lisa Hurley (Moderator), Content Director, Special Events magazine. More info/register. Host: Velvet Chainsaw.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Grazia Mohren, vice president of marketing, BizBash Media. 4 Easy Ways to Generate Non-Dues Revenue. Randy Lieberman, Foundation Marketing Group. Airbnb and other alternative accommodation services are digging deep in-roads into the travel market. Presenters: Dianne Davis, meetings and marketing consultant, Owner, Tulnet.

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Membership Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

It is an important question to building and sustaining a success membership marketing program. Of course they would have to survive without the $800,000 in dues revenue and some portion of the non-dues, advertising, and exhibitor revenue dependent on members. For more information, contact Tony at Tony@MarketingGeneral.com.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 14, 2014

That’s the bad news for your convention’s revenue-diversification model. As an organization, you need to shift those revenue dollars from industry suppliers by developing a strategy around your sponsorship offerings. No marketing investment is easy to measure. Aligning their investment to their marketing objectives.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

Marketing Your Association While Building Your Personal Brand in 2020 (Association Chat). Find out how what Sherron thinks associations need to know about marketing in today’s difficult climate and how she has elevated her personal brand to experience greater resilience and opportunity. marketing and communication professional.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 14, 2014

Imagining a world where a birthday wish turns from effective marketing tool to customer irritant. Also: why your association’s magazine shouldn’t give a discount to an advertiser relying on an in-house ad agency. Patt notes that Sears’ strategy for correcting the error was effective and “did the trick.”

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NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Grazia Mohren, vice president of marketing, BizBash Media. 4 Easy Ways to Generate Non-Dues Revenue. Randy Lieberman, Foundation Marketing Group. Airbnb and other alternative accommodation services are digging deep in-roads into the travel market. Presenters: Dianne Davis, meetings and marketing consultant, Owner, Tulnet.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 23, 2013

Recently released cross-industry research highlights successful strategies and tactics when it comes to social media and digital marketing efforts within the exhibition industry. But does the same hold true for exhibitions and their digital marketing efforts? Johnson Experience Marketing. Revenue generation is a priority.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Digital marketing for education programs. Compare your marketing tactics to the twelve digital marketing channels described by WBT Systems. Susan Schramm of Go To Market Impact describes five ways to “de-risk” your next virtual (or hybrid) event —”drawn from real-world experiences and scars (my own and others).”

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Association Adviser

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

During our webinar about the current state of association communications, our attendees brought up numerous questions about recommended strategies, tactics, platforms and communication practices. What strategies are associations using to increase their revenue from their advertising in printed publications?

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