EventMobi: Association Events

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Membership retention is an organization’s ability to keep its members active following recruitment and onboarding. Use multiple streams of communication (email, social media, paper mail, etc.), But on a practical level, how can you actively recruit and retain members for the long run? Why does member retention matter?

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Higher Logic

MAY 29, 2020

You don't have to be a hypnotist or a master of persuasion to build support for an online community among your association’s board and executive team. How to Align with Your Board and Executive Team's Priorities. Instead, you need to align your new online community with the mission and priorities of your association's leadership.

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NXUnite

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Pair your campaign with exciting events: Consider hosting your peer-to-peer fundraiser alongside an event to increase engagement, such as a walk-a-thon , an online silent auction, or a livestreamed panel with members of your team who can discuss your cause in detail. 

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Association Success

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Association professionals are looking into ways to grow their teams, successfully run their online presence, combat writer’s block and tackle good hiring practices for the new quarter in this week’s Friday Five. Every week, we pull five articles our audience liked most from our newsletters to keep up with what’s trending.

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Higher Logic

AUGUST 15, 2017

Write a blog post, add a website banner, or call out your volunteers in online community discussion forums or social media to thank them for their hard work. Take plenty of photos and highlight them in slideshows in your online community or an article in your print newsletter to extend post-event engagement.

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Blue Sky eLearn

JANUARY 14, 2019

Prioritize social media engagement. Prioritize social media engagement. When it comes to strengthening your online member acquisition strategy, there is no technique so effective as leveraging social media to expand your outreach abilities. The most popular social media platforms include: Twitter.

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MemberClicks

APRIL 28, 2022

Recruiting new members and keeping them engaged is a crucial activity for all associations. While seasoned professionals may prefer to communicate via phone calls, Gen Z and Millennials may prefer emails and social media. Instead, opt for more casual events and/or team-building activities.

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Blue Sky eLearn

JANUARY 14, 2019

Prioritize social media engagement. Prioritize social media engagement. When it comes to strengthening your online member acquisition strategy, there is no technique so effective as leveraging social media to expand your outreach abilities. The most popular social media platforms include: Twitter.

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Association Success

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Consider making some content available for nonmembers to access as a way to get more people interacting with your brand and recruit new members. Repurposing content is a great way to reach the widest range of members possible without exhausting your team. Save time by repurposing content. Recycling content isn’t lazy, it’s smart.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

My first bit of advice is, don’t treat recruiting these experts casually. Associations are ideally positioned to fill that need in a way that social media and other online activities cannot. A social media following doesn’t guarantee that exclusive pedigree. They will be representing your organization.

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ISAE

JANUARY 31, 2024

Auction Planning: 5 Steps to Master Event Preparation You’re likely familiar with the planning chaos before a fundraising event like an auction: your team is scrambling to polish off details, items seem to be missing, and you’re in the midst of trying last-minute strategies to drive more registrations. Put together a team.

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Membersuite

JUNE 30, 2021

Association colleagues are telling us they’re having a tough time recruiting and retaining volunteers. Volunteer recruitment was already a problem before the pandemic—members were busy. Prioritize tasks so your recruitment efforts are focused on the most critical work. Manage projects and volunteers.

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Associations Now

MARCH 6, 2020

Recruiting more volunteers means offering something for everyone—and that includes micro-volunteering opportunities for those who can’t make a larger commitment. To get started, ask staff, directors, and committees to identify any micro-volunteering opportunities in the work they normally do, the MemberSuite team suggests.

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YourMembership

MARCH 8, 2013

Happy Friday and Welcome to the Weekly Wrap Up brought to you by the team at YourMembership.com! BAC -1.08% wanted to study whether face time mattered among its call-center teams, the big bank asked about 90 workers to wear badges for a few weeks with tiny sensors to record their movements and the tone of their conversations.

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Associations Now

MAY 9, 2019

Colleen Bottorff writes on the MemberClicks blog that instead of working hard to convince potential members of your value in occasional recruitment campaigns, you should show it to them continuously through your regular communications. It’s a 10-15 minute meeting that a team conducts (standing) in a hallway or similar setting.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 25, 2021

Would you like to subscribe to this newsletter? Find out what an effective, inclusive meeting looks like for a hybrid team, which all-virtual activities we should maintain post-COVID, which activities should *only* be held in person, and wow to best engage with clients and members going forward. Subscribe to Blog via Email.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Other associations post regularly on social media and cultivate vibrant online communities while yours just sends monthly email newsletters and occasionally meets over Zoom. Many members join associations to hone professional skills such as team management, public speaking , or accepting and delivering feedback.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Try to develop your fundraising strategy in such a way that you can accomplish as much as possible while minimizing stress for your team. Social media. As you create content, keep in mind that different social media platforms appeal to different demographics. Let’s get started! Email marketing. Text messaging.

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Ewald Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

While recruiting is important, keeping your members around is just as crucial. It’s so important to keep tabs on social media engagement, newsletter opens, and event registrations to see how much your members are engaging with your organization. Members are associations’ best asset.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

You might not be able to pick your team, but there are plenty of circumstances that you can control. When you succeed at recruiting talented leaders, share the good news broadly. Don’t limit announcements to your website or a newsletter. Cultivate Diversity. Board service is an honor and a privilege.

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Protech

JUNE 11, 2020

i.e. ”Which staff member or team will be site administrators?”). Do you have a sales team to keep job ads fresh? . W hether it’s your association’s social media accounts, newsletters or blogs, you will want to provide job seekers relevant and frequent communication about job openings in their industry.

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MemberClicks

OCTOBER 19, 2022

You can share info with them via your: Website Newsletter Online community Social media channels. Be clear in how they can communicate with you and your team (email, phone number, contact hours, etc.) How easy is it for your members to find, access and use your information channels? A great experience. Be empathetic.

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MemberClicks

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Below, you’ll find seven easy steps on how to build a membership website to recruit and retain members plus find your perfect membership website builder! Engagement Tools : Online classes, newsletters, and group workshops. Community Engagement : Includes a directory, event calendar, and social media tools.

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Must-read newsletters. I was happy to see Association Brain Food in Lead Marvel’s list of eight must-read newsletters for association professionals. Curated reading lists are the best, right? So, let’s move on to the rest of your weekend reading.

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Association Briefings

MAY 6, 2021

They’re the ones who shaped the industry; who recruited new members based on word-of-mouth. For successful organizations, a good portion of marketing budgets are being spent on recruiting, retaining and engaging with these younger professionals. In fact, 32% more say they use it more than any social media site.

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MemberClicks

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Identify trade show objectives, goals, and target audience Your trade show starts with sitting down with your team and key stakeholders and identifying SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound), objectives, metrics for success and your target audience. Consider this your essential trade show planning template.

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MemberClicks

APRIL 5, 2022

Help Businesses Recruit Top Talent with a Job Board on your Chamber Website. You can promote seasonally through: Email campaigns Chamber newsletter Special social media posts Print ads Special highlights on your website. Often, it involves promotion on social media. New to social media?

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Association Success

DECEMBER 12, 2017

There is a sign on my door, that says “it takes hours, it takes days, it takes weeks, to recruit a member - but it only takes seconds to lose one”. There is no way that a membership team could, or should, be solely responsible for recruiting, engaging, and retaining each member of an association. We’ve got to be talking to them.

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Reid All About it

APRIL 12, 2019

MemberSuite shares membership marketing tactics to use before, during and after your event to recruit non-member attendees. Here’s a little piece I did on microvolunteering —one of my longtime soapbox topics—for my state association’s newsletter. Public philosopher Roman Krznaric says we need to reinvent democracy for the long-term.

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MemberClicks

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s more cost-effective for you to retain an existing member than to recruit a new one. You may want to send a welcome email, give the member a quick phone call, or post a shoutout on your organization’s social media or newsletter to welcome them. How many events or webinars have they attended?

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Association Briefings

JULY 30, 2021

We're Glad You Asked Associations are using podcasting not only for engagement opportunities, but also for recruiting and retaining members. Association Briefings has a team of association-focused experts excited to help with all your podcasting needs - from storyboarding and guest prep to recording, post-production and promotion.

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Association Briefings

JUNE 22, 2021

And that story should be told in every recruitment initiative, renewal effort, industry outreach, or event promotion. Interviews, footage, keynotes, or any other content gathered from live events can be used on your association’s website or social media channels as a form of branded content. How Can We Help?

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Aptify

JULY 24, 2019

That means the people who use your job board also use other sites such as Google, Indeed, Glass Door, Zip Recruiter, and LinkedIn. SEO and job distribution – Optimize every job for search engines, and reach candidates through social media, email, mobile channels, and sophisticated programmatic advertising.

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Aptify

JULY 22, 2019

That means the people who use your job board also use other sites such as Google, Indeed, Glass Door, Zip Recruiter, and LinkedIn. SEO and job distribution – Optimize every job for search engines, and reach candidates through social media, email, mobile channels, and sophisticated programmatic advertising.

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MemberClicks

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

This makes it way more cost-effective to retain the support of existing members than recruiting, onboarding and engaging new members all the time. Send out a member needs assessment survey using your email newsletter, online community space or website. You can also… 3. Run a member satisfaction survey. More on this below!).

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SCD Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Winning teams wield winning ways (attitudes). Recruit & Involve. Hockey teams change lines every 45 seconds. Football teams platoon. If the membership recruitment job is too big. I bet Patton would be using Social Media! Make chapter newsletters entertaining, informative and fresh (current).

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Martin says typical association content—magazines, newsletters, whitepapers, research reports, and however those are sliced and diced for social media—only gets people to the top of the marketing funnel. And there’s no reason why any organization’s marketing team can’t be structured around that funnel.”.

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