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Before You Go To Your Go-To Member Insight Methodology

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Match your business goals, your project’s goals, your members’ goals with the right member research methodology. Why no member survey may be better than one member survey. The post Before You Go To Your Go-To Member Insight Methodology appeared first on Smooth The Path.

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Members Who Share Their Opinions Expect Action (here is what we are going to do!)

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How does this apply to member insights? So often we ask for member’s thoughts, ideas and opinions but never loop around to let them know the outcome. A member giving their opinions is expecting action but that action doesn’t have to be an immediate grand plan to turn the association inside out and upside down.

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Helping Members Answer the Questions that Matter Most

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There’s an interesting dance that happens with member research. We ask the questions we think we want to know the answers to but members see those questions and find they would rather answer some other more important questions. Qualitative member research methods do.

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Case Study: In-depth Member Interviews Feed Association’s Strategic Plan

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Based on this input we outlined two goals for the research project: Understand member’s current challenges. Learn if there were any barriers preventing deeper member engagement. Listening to members. Based on the goals of the research project we selected the qualitative in-depth interview methodology.

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Engaging Not New or Long, But Medium-Time Members with Your Association

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While conducting member research new members and long-time members share why they engage with their association (and why they don’t). Because as they grow in their career or as their companies grow the association offers solutions to these new and advanced problems.

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What Member Feedback to Keep, and What to Toss

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.” There’s no sense in spending weeks fixing the registration process if just one member out of thousands feels that way. So how do you know if one person’s feedback represents an army of like-minded members? Each qualitative research project yields hundreds if not thousands of opinions.

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Is it Day 1 or Day 2 for Associations?

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Another behavior that enables quick decision making is using the phrase “disagree and commit” In essence, team members use this mindset, “I do not agree that this is the right direction. But, you think it is important so I am not going to hold up the project’s progress. Let’s see what happens.

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