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Amanda Kaiser at her Smooth the Path blog gave me a good reminder this week about association membership dues notices. The most interesting result from the memberresearch on renewal notices is that these letters, emails, and phone calls do not serve to change most member’s minds about renewing. Image Source [link].
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As for-profit companies provide these types of experiences, your members expect the same in more areas of their lives – including their experience with your association. So, how can you take your association’s member service to the next level? Read our blog for helpful tips! So do your members.
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Team members make eye contact with each other and talk energetically with each other. Team members connect with each other and not just the leader. Team membersresearch ideas outside of the boundaries of the team and bring back the best ideas. Water-cooler or hallway conversations carry over into the team meetings.
Start the new year with confidence and start strengthening your member engagement! The post Strengthening Member Engagement: Tips From an HR Consultant appeared first on Salesforce Membership Management Blog.
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Our members are playing all over the digital landscape. Find them, and show them the way back to your website and your blog. Your memberresearch should tell you where to focus. Communicate to your outposts, and bring them back home. Prioritize and focus. You can’t do everything well, so don’t even try.
This recent update summarizes what the project team learned from their latest memberresearch; this post goes into why they did it and this helpful guide details how they did it. Gotta love these people for their thoroughness and transparency!
This recent update summarizes what the project team learned from their latest memberresearch; this post goes into why they did it and this helpful guide details how they did it. Gotta love these people for their thoroughness and transparency!
This way you can easily access and refer to data across your different tools, whether it is for generating a financial report, creating new marketing content, or performing memberresearch. The post AMS Platforms: A Comprehensive Guide for Associations appeared first on Salesforce Membership Management Blog.
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