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Resources of the Association Community

Smooth The Path

I conduct member research all the time, so I get direct access to the bright spots in our industry. Association Universe puts out a regular curated list of articles about important association topics. Where do you get knowledge and insights about the association industry? I am lucky. Are you hungry for some knowledge?

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Association Brain Food: 7.5.24

Reid All About it

Board members have to think of themselves as stewards who leave their association better positioned for the future than they found it. In a series of articles ( part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ) at Naylor’s Association Adviser, Jeff De Cagna describes the elements and imperatives of board stewardship. Board stewardship. Content curation.

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Daily Buzz: How Dark Social Is Skewing Your Data

Associations Now

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. They won’t know where you got the article from, making dark social a form of referral traffic that is attributed to the wrong channel.”. .

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Why Didn’t Our Members Choose Us?

Smooth The Path

Find these bright spots; both the super-engaged members and the products, benefits, services and events they are engaging with and find out why these members are so engaged and why these offerings are so engaging. Related articles: The stories members make up. Association trend watch: member experiences.

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Many Organizations Accidentally Ignore New Members

Smooth The Path

My first-year member experience lines up with many other new member’s experiences according to member research. Associations tend to have very robust renewal programs, but meager new member onboarding programs. Once my year’s membership was up, I didn’t give the association a second thought.

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Assumptions About Members Can be Wildly Inaccurate

Smooth The Path

One member’s fabulous gala is another member’s small-talk-nightmare-from-hell. We can’t be sure that members will love a new product or assume they won’t like the topic of an article or will register for a new event.

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Are Members Getting Value or are They Satisfied?

Smooth The Path

The value members perceive they get from the association or their satisfaction in the association? This question was posed by an association executive during a webinar on member research that I recently gave to 140 attendees. While satisfying our members is delivering something to them that they expect.