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How For-Profit Membership Models Are Evolving

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In a statement to the website, Amazon defended the strategy: From time to time, Amazon offers exclusive selection and pricing on select items for Prime members. Time for Costco to Boost Prices? And, not to be outdone, at least one startup in the food-delivery space is eyeing a membership model to drive revenue. Handout photo).

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.18.18

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I’ve been transcribing my March 2001 journal from when I traveled via Amtrak Coast Starlight sleeper car from LA to Seattle… Did you know the Coast Starlight and Pacific Surfliner go right along the California coast? Check out these photos of bioluminescence giving the California coastline an eerie blue glow. ( The Guardian ). 1 CAE credit.

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What Smart Associations Do Differently

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Seattle Seahawks. Sources: *Oscars (MPA); **Billboard Top 100; # Year end closing price for Dow Jones Industrial Average ## U.S. They can also provide new sources of sponsorship revenue and member leads by identifying trends in attendee behavior and content interests. Thrift Shop (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis). Super Bowl Winner.

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Monday Buzz: The $70K Minimum Wage, Six Months Later

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Gravity Payments founder Dan Price decided in April to raise his company’s minimum salary far beyond Seattle’s $15 hourly wage: to $70,000 a year. editor Paul Keegan talked with Price to find out , and his findings, though still early, indicate that the pay bump has more than paid off for the company.

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Coronavirus Updates for Association and Events Professionals – What You Need to Know

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The Price of the Coronavirus Pandemic (source: The New Yorker) April 13, 2020 – As April arrived, businesses, large and small, decided not to pay rent, either because they didn’t have the cash on hand or because, with a recession looming, they wanted to preserve what cash they had. Harris, M.D., President, American Medical Association.

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Daily #COVID19 Updates for Association and Events Professionals – What You Need to Know

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The Price of the Coronavirus Pandemic (source: The New Yorker) April 13, 2020 – As April arrived, businesses, large and small, decided not to pay rent, either because they didn’t have the cash on hand or because, with a recession looming, they wanted to preserve what cash they had. Harris, M.D., President, American Medical Association.