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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. Before you attempt to convince the board that your organization needs a new membership management system, you must first convince your executive director.

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Association Brain Food: 4.12.24

Reid All About it

Text Request explains how to create an SMS (text) strategy that aligns with your association’s marketing strategy. Katrina Ciccarelli McAfee at Association Analytics shares a three-step strategy for improving new member acquisition. Member recruitment. Fri 4/12 at 4 p.m. More info/register. Host: Fridays@4 Mon 4/15 at 8 a.m.

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Strategies for Hosting a Successful Shark Tank Competition at Your Conference

Associations Now

The rubric includes the following criteria: significance of the problem being addressed, novel approach to a gastroenterological issue, impact of the proposed approach or solution, pathway to commercialization, funding criteria, effectiveness of presentation skills, and quality of response to sharks’ questions.

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Association Brain Food: 11.17.23

Reid All About it

The resulting data will help associations understand the professional development landscape, plan learning strategy, and budget for learning programs. Content strategy. Tim Stoddart at Copyblogger shares five strategies for creating cornerstone (or pillar) content that readers and Google will love. AMS/CRM selection survey.

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Association Brain Food: 3.8.24

Reid All About it

In 2024, the data continues to show how the historical assumptions that drove association strategy are less and less valid.” Tech Tuesday Slam Dunk: Successful Strategies to Manage Your IT Project Portfolio Managing your IT project portfolio is like juggling multiple March Madness brackets—requiring skill, precision, and strategic thinking.

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Eric Lanke: Provocative Proposals for Change

Eric Lanke

Provocative Proposals for Change. I just finished reading an advance copy of Shelly Alcorn s " Provocative Proposals for Change ," a report she authored based on Appreciative Inquiry interviews she conducted with more than 200 association executives (including me). Provocative Proposals for Change. Leadership. Innovation.

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The great proposal debate: Why consultants eschew RFPs

Aaron Wolowiec

Simply draft a proposal describing you’re recommended course of action and be sure to include your proposed fees. I had this happen to me many years ago – not in a proposal, but in an “exploratory meeting” where I naively gave away the store. They’d already gotten at least two proposals.

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