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Seven Levers to Increase Membership Recruitment. Here are seven strategic levers or opportunities to explore in order to increase your new member recruitment efforts. If you have strong returns from your recruitment efforts, you probably are not reaching your full market potential. Speaking Engagements. Speaking Engagements.
Why Share the Wealth through Membership Recruitment? This past weekend, I was in Chicago doing some membership presentations and spoke with members of one group who asked, “Why should I recruit members for the organization? Labels: Member Benefits , Membership Recruitment. ► 2007. (51). Non-Dues Revenue. (1).
Using Social Media to Recruit Staff. A former client contact of mine helps to manage a blog and related social media to recruit staff for the company where she works -- Sodexo. Unleash the Power of Market Testing in your Membership Recruitment. Using Social Media to Recruit Staff. ► 2007. (51). Publications.
Non Dues Revenue and Affinity Programs for Members. So here is a quick list of possible non-dues revenue and affinity products that I have put together to get your thinking going. Labels: new products , Non-Dues Revenue. Unleash the Power of Market Testing in your Membership Recruitment. ► 2007. (51).
Unleash the Power of Market Testing in Your Membership Recruitment. And because of the larger quantities and costs involved, testing is a particular necessity and an ideal opportunity when it comes to membership recruitment. Testing in membership recruitment allows your organization to market more efficiently. ► 2007. (51).
This trend strips traditional media and associations of subscription / membership revenue, depresses ad revenues and results in little left over for investment in good journalism, or educational programs and new ventures in the case of associations. HBR’s print advertising revenues dropped 24 percent in 2009. Older Post.
So Why Test in Membership Recruitment? After my last post, you might say to me, “So what’s wrong with not doing market testing in my membership recruitment program?” The total revenue for the control group came to $24,150 while the total revenue for the test group came to $39,999. ► 2007. (51).
This article is an edited excerpt from the book Membership Recruitment: How to Grow Recurring Revenue, Reach New Markets, and Advance Your Mission. In 2007, Sears had sales of $53 billion and had 350,000 employees, while Amazon had sales of $14 billion and 17,000 employees. Find it on Amazon. population. Here is the lesson.
Way back in 2007, I developed a white paper around a concept that I called the Membership Lifecycle. You also will have difficulty recruiting a new member if you cannot identify who top prospects are for membership. Recruitment -- when prospects choose to join you. ► 2007. (51). Speaking Engagements. Publications.
Five Steps to Building a Membership Recruitment Strategy. I just responded to a question on how an organization should put together a membership recruitment strategy. So here are five basic elements that I think are important to consider in putting together a membership recruitment program. Labels: Membership Recruitment.
Many organizations are seeing growth in membership and using great tools to recruit, engage, and retain members. Unleash the Power of Market Testing in your Membership Recruitment. So Why Test in Membership Recruitment? Seven Levers to Increase Membership Recruitment. ► 2007. (51). ► 2007. (51).
Maximizing your Website as a Tool for Membership Recruitment. When an opt-in is captured, we have found that these leads are some of the highest responding lists for membership recruitment campaigns. Unleash the Power of Market Testing in your Membership Recruitment. Using Social Media to Recruit Staff. ► 2007. (51).
Email Usage Up, but Effectiveness Rated Lower for Membership Recruitment. Interestingly, when asked to rate the effectiveness of using email to recruit new members, those who said that email was the “most” effective channel, dropped from 24 percent in 2009 to 10 percent in 2010. Speaking Engagements. Speaking Engagements.
Working for Arnold Schwarzenegger, I learned you have to be a great listener and recruiter of talent. During an economic downturn, that’s when people tend to forego their regular maintenance and inspections—an important source of revenue for our members. Arnold Schwarzenegger starting in 2007. He is a great recruiter of talent.
Out of a list of 10 options, association executives are most likely to rank growth in member counts (22%), revenue growth (21%), and net revenue growth (21%) as the primary definition of success for their organization. Unleash the Power of Market Testing in your Membership Recruitment. ► 2007. (51). Network with Me.
The Push and Pull of Membership Recruitment. However, we live in a time of exciting change and the paradigm for membership recruitment is changing with it. Today, effective membership recruitment often includes a pull strategy as part of the marketing mix by taking advantage of online opportunities and social networking tools.
As you may recall, last year, our survey provided critical comparative data on how organizations recruit members, engage new members and renew their members. Unleash the Power of Market Testing in your Membership Recruitment. ► 2007. (51). Membership Recruitment. (4). Non-Dues Revenue. (1). Network with Me.
I get a lot of questions about this, so I thought it might be of help to provide some sample language you can use to present this option on recruitment and renewal efforts. Unleash the Power of Market Testing in your Membership Recruitment. ► 2007. (51). Membership Recruitment. (4). Non-Dues Revenue. (1).
As readers of this blog know, this marks the third year that we have surveyed membership organizations to better understand the strategies and tactics used to recruit members, engage new members, renew existing members, and reinstate former members. Unleash the Power of Market Testing in your Membership Recruitment. ► 2007. (51).
This marks the fourth year that Marketing General Incorporated (MGI) has surveyed associations to better understand what is going on in the membership market and what is working best to recruit members, engage new members, renew existing members, and reinstate former members. Unleash the Power of Market Testing in your Membership Recruitment.
More Marketing Channels Available for Membership Recruitment. ” Ideally, careful tracking of membership recruitment will help define what marketing channels are most effective for your organization. Labels: Marketing Media , Membership Recruitment. Unleash the Power of Market Testing in your Membership Recruitment.
The only option now for fiscal health is to grow revenue. VanBuskirk goes on to say, “If youre going to make a successful shift back into growth mode, you have to retool the organization for driving revenue vs. saving money. Resources, talent and priorities must flow toward revenue drivers.”2. ► 2007. (51).
In fact, word-of-mouth marketing tied for the top spot as the most effective method of new member recruitment in our 2010 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report. Unleash the Power of Market Testing in your Membership Recruitment. ► 2007. (51). Membership Recruitment. (4). Non-Dues Revenue. (1). Good Blogs.
Before you determine if a response rate is good or bad, you need to understand the costs and the revenue associated with your membership (what cooking temperature is required). If the revenue associated with the response is very high, then even the lowest responding list might be economically productive. ► 2007. (51).
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