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6 tips for proposing new membership software to your board

Aptify

A lot is riding on your proposal to the board: staff’s productivity and effectiveness, data security, and usefulness, maybe even your reputation, and definitely your stress level. For example: Data integrity, plus a 360-degree view of members, prospects, and customers (a.k.a. “a Request for proposals. Why is it so challenging?

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Building Buy-In for an Online Community at Your Association

Higher Logic

While the way you align your proposed member community with your executives’ goals will vary by association, five of the most common priorities you might find in the strategic plan include new member acquisition, member engagement and retention, non-dues revenue growth, advocacy and legislation, and maintaining relevance.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 04.26.19

Reid All About it

Some quick hits before we get to next week’s free webinars: How to get more leads from a live event using social media. Marshal Carper, Social Media Examiner ). How to Save Time Making Conference Education & Proposal Management Systems Work Together. Don’t be blinded by your own expertise. Christopher S.

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Association Brain Food: 4.12.24

Reid All About it

Building Brand Loyalty: Transforming Social Customer Service with AI (Social Media & AI Bootcamp Series 2024) Learn how social media is transforming customer service. Find out how to drive synergies at scale between social media and social customer service teams, and efficiencies with purpose-built AI.

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Your Members Want to be Friends

Smooth The Path

Gather members together by problem or project. Develop brain dates – allow members to ask questions or propose a topic, other members will respond to what interests them and set up a time to chat. Cultivate the friendliest member culture ever – welcome new members and new attendees with big smiles.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 10.29.21

Reid All About it

Instead, when you hear crickets, he suggests you ask board members to use specific language—he shares several examples—to express their stance on an issue or proposal. We’ve planned, proposed, reworked, rescheduled and reimagined our work continuously over the course of the last 18 months. Sponsorship sales. 1 CAE credit. .

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 11.8.19

Reid All About it

The deadline for proposals is next Friday, November 15. The new Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations are here at last, and they look very different from those proposed by the Obama administration. How Nonprofits Can Make Their Fundraising Campaigns More Social. Presenter: Tereza Litsa, Social Media Manager at Lightful.