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Three Things To Do Now To Prepare For Next-Gen Members

Associations Now

What we soon discovered was that there are three main things every association can do today to get ready for next-gen members: Take a pulse of young professionals. One in Madison, and one in Milwaukee, because that is where a large portion of our members reside. For WSAE, we held two different focus groups.

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Motorcycle Industry: Efforts to Reach Female Bikers Paying Off

Associations Now

The council’s most recent Motorcycle Owner Survey also reveals women’s main motivations for being high on the hog: They ride for “fun and recreation,” for a “sense of freedom,” and to “enjoy outdoors/nature.” As for their priorities when choosing a bike to buy, women, in the survey of 48,000 U.S.

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Tuesday Buzz: Avoid Presenter Gimmicks at Your Events

Associations Now

” “I’m running a 10-staff person trade association headquartered in Milwaukee with a $3 million budget. . “I’m not building or leading a Navy SEAL team,” he writes in what he calls a “rant.” And I’m really not sure what one has to do with the other.”

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Globalization is Survival: Becoming Global as an Anecdote to Stagnant or Declining Markets

Plexus Consulting

Worth, President at Plexus Consulting Group, LLC The Milwaukee-based American Society for Quality (ASQ) is an individual membership society composed of corporate quality control officers as well as consultants. By Steven M. During the heyday of the total quality management (TQM) frenzy of the 1960s through the 1990s ASQ grew enormously fast.