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Increase Membership: 3 Game-Changing Recruitment Strategies for Associations

CMA Solutions

To tackle these challenges, associations need to get creative with their offerings and really connect with both current and potential members to show off their value. A well-crafted growth strategy is crucial for expanding association membership and ensuring the long-term sustainability and impact of your organization.

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3 Strategies to Recruit Members Through Association Software

Blue Sky eLearn

Prospective members are much more likely to respond positively to a recruitment strategy that feels like a natural part of their interactions with your association than they are with outright marketing strategies that, in today’s media landscape, feel obvious and forceful. Offer online-only membership benefits.

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Understand the Three Professional Stages to Improve Association Value

Smooth The Path

Or they might be concerned with new regulations, a constricting market, or changes in public perception and how these forces will affect their industry or profession. Why long-time members are reluctant to leave your association. Engaging not new or long, but medium-time members with your association.

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The Association Value Trigger Point Explained by New Member Background

Smooth The Path

When I speak about a way to engage new members early in their membership by using an Association Value Trigger Point (AVTP), association professionals often ask me if their association should have just one AVTP or should we have many for our different members? Instead, a high touch AVTP may work best.

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Overcoming the association value gap: part I

Principled Innovation

Unfortunately, this effort can only go so far, as securing increasingly limited and targeted third-party marketing dollars becomes a more competitive endeavor. So while the decision not to increase dues may be partly a gesture of goodwill, it is also an attempt at self-preservation.

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Overcoming the association value gap: part II

Principled Innovation

This post originally appeared on the Associations Now Leadership Blog on March 28, 2013. In Part I of this series earlier this month, I identified the association value gap as an underlying structural problem within membership-centric business models. You can read Part I here.

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Associations and Lousy Marketing

Smooth The Path

Bernadette Jiwa, storytelling guru wrote that good marketing, “empowers people to make decisions now that they won’t regret later, and, “helps people to do the things they want to do.” Just because we manage non-profit associations does not make us immune to lousy marketing.