Smooth The Path

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Unemployed members need help connecting with future employers, and hiring managers need to connect with qualified candidates. Business owners and leaders may want to collaboratively innovate to survive the downturn and meet new market demands. What more can you do to prioritize employment in your field, industry, or profession?

Project 146

Project Innovation Organization Marketing 146

Smooth The Path

JULY 4, 2016

While we would never market it like this, another huge value for some associations is addressing member’s loneliness, helping members cope with loneliness and helping them find others like them so they can be less lonely. Related: Improve the member experience with curated networking.

Member Experience 68

Member Experience Marketing Organization Association Value 68

Smooth The Path

OCTOBER 3, 2019

During the first three weeks, members also learn whether they should read or ignore our emails. When emails are timely and value-packed members, look forward to them. But, when messages are dull, demanding, long, and pleading marketing messages, they start habitually ignoring emails.

Content 97

Content Marketing Strategy Association Value 97

Protech

MAY 4, 2020

Typically, those interactions include your public relations and marketing activities, social media posts, email newsletters, webinars, blogs, SMS and podcasts. . Depending on the size of your staff and budget, and the expectations of your members, you will spend more time on certain areas of the digital customer experience than others.

Content 86

Content System Discount Software 86

Smooth The Path

APRIL 17, 2018

We are not going to talk all the new filters that purposely block and sort association mass emails into spam folders (that’s a problem too). We are not going to belly-ache about how aggressive marketers and spammers are messing up the channel for the rest of us (another huge problem).

Member Engagement 110

Member Engagement Communications Process Products 110

Smooth The Path

JUNE 28, 2017

Marketers know this, and they agonize about the placement of every last little Cheerio in the bowl on the front of the box. Our keen interest in looks does not end at clothing. We evaluate the looks of all sorts of things. Our cars, our houses, the buildings where we work, and shop, and send our kids to school.

Class 89

Class Member Engagement Process Report 89

Smooth The Path

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Why do our members join? Myth #1: Members Join for Our Benefits. Members join to go to the annual conference. Sometimes members join to gain access to a benefit , but rarely. Much more often members do not know a thing about the association when they join.

Recruiting 118

Recruiting Recruitment Conference Report 118

.orgSource

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

If your members experience a shift in their professional direction, adjusting the organization’s purpose is critical to keep pace. Netflix’s new vision was driven by the idea that, in a highly competitive market, a shift in values would give its brand a leading edge. Values create community.

Revenue 88

Revenue Review Guidelines Education 88

Smooth The Path

JANUARY 31, 2019

Association agency services that help members with time-consuming media and content production. Or what about an association service that helps members connect with just the right member. Perhaps what your strategy, marketing, and innovation needs is a focus on how the association can save members’ time.

Innovation 74

Innovation Content Survey Strategy 74

Smooth The Path

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Related: The stories members make up. How to set a new tone at your association. Association trend watch: member experiences. The post Association Blunders Make Us Want to Stick Our Heads in The Sand appeared first on Smooth The Path.

Member Experience 60

Member Experience Communications Organization Industry 60

Smooth The Path

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Why don’t people join associations anymore? Well, it could be because they do not hear about your association. When I talk to members, the vast majority say they become aware of the association because someone told them about it.

Recruiting 94

Recruiting Recruitment Conference Organization 94

Smooth The Path

MAY 7, 2017

Have you ever noticed the Twitter flurry before the conference? A few attendees will start leaving tweets here and there. “I am packing for Orlando!” ” “Made it through security and the fight is on time; here I come!” ” “Can’t wait for today’s awesome keynote to kick off this conference.”

Member Engagement 84

Member Engagement How To Case Study Conference 84

Smooth The Path

APRIL 10, 2016

Non-profit or no this new association may just be part of the bureaucracy. Long-time members have excellent memories for the way things used to be. One director of marketing I met said that the association staff would always let member calls go to voice mail.

Examples 60

Examples Member Experience Association Value Marketing 60

Smooth The Path

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

This morning I got a personalized email telling me how much the email’s author loved one of my posts. They cited the post, provided a link to the post, and explained how my post related to their business. The email’s author is a blogger for a popular fishing company. The email was spam disguised as a personal connection.

Price 68

Price Content Industry Resources 68

Smooth The Path

JUNE 6, 2017

Have you ever watched a movie that someone you trust recommended as the best movie of all time and wondered, “what were they thinking”? Fargo was that film for me. For me, it was not my favorite movie of all time, not even a good movie, but some of my friends thought it was. I just do not get the appeal.

Leadership 68

Leadership Innovation Industry Team 68

MemberClicks

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

These data points can help you evaluate how youre meeting the needs of your members across many identities and lived experiences. Have you encountered any challenges as a member that we could help resolve? What additional resources or support would enhance your membership experience?

Survey 52

Survey Committee Education Resources 52