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Daily Buzz: A Better Strategy for Member Research

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“The two methods work well together, especially when the qualitative research is conducted first, and the results are used to write the quantitative survey,” she explains. The result is an accurate survey, larger sample sizes, and a final report with the stories, color, and anecdotes to illustrate the findings.”. Clean Your List.

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Daily Buzz: How Dark Social Is Skewing Your Data

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If you go to The New York Times right now, pick any article, and send the URL via Facebook Messenger to one of your friends, you’ve shared it via dark social,” says Liesa Opitz on Convince and Convert. “For In fact, one report says about 84 percent of social shares happen via dark social, according to marketing firm RhythmOne.

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Diversify Your Retention Rate, and Other Membership Ideas

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Your intrepid membership blogger returns from two conferences at regional societies of association executives with a roundup of tips and ideas, including great questions for member research and the power of delegating metric measurement to staff. Here’s a new membership metric for your association to track: retention rates.