Membership Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2023

In my book, Membership Recruitment , I share an eye-opening experience with a client. For several years, this association had been doing a sizeable annual mailing to recruit new members. They had wasted thousands of marketing dollars. The mailing went to a portfolio of outside lists totaling over 100,000 records.

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Membership Marketing

JULY 15, 2021

In my recent interview, we discussed these topics with insights from the 2021 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report and the recently released book, Membership Recruitment: How to Grow RecurringRevenue, Reach New Markets and Advance Your Mission. For more information, contact Tony at Tony@MarketingGeneral.com.

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CMA Solutions

MARCH 6, 2024

In the evolving healthcare landscape, one tactic has become essential for healthcare providers and organizations to attract more patient leads: digital marketing. This case study shows how digital marketing through public relations can boost your practice’s visibility affordably.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 22, 2022

This highlights an opportunity for your association to improve your content marketing model and determine the best mix of free, gated, and paid content for your constituents. . Why your association needs to develop a content marketing model. Gated content. Learn more.

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Reid All About it

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Marketing to younger generations. Trying to figure out how to market more effectively to Gen Z and millennials? Ask Me Anything: Marketing Automation Learn about marketing automation. How can technology and automation make our marketing efforts less painful? What can automation be used for? More info/register.

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Membership Marketing

JUNE 3, 2024

This article is an edited excerpt from the book Membership Recruitment: How to Grow Recurring Revenue, Reach New Markets, and Advance Your Mission. Concurrently with enhancing membership value, ANA launched a membership recruitment program built around market testing and analysis. Find it on Amazon.

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Membership Marketing

MAY 29, 2024

This article is an edited excerpt from the book Membership Recruitment: How to Grow Recurring Revenue, Reach New Markets, and Advance Your Mission. In fact, for over one hundred years, Sears mailed out its big book catalog to a significant portion of the U.S. You have fully penetrated your prospect market.

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NXUnite

JANUARY 12, 2024

Book club While book clubs are often free, your church can turn this into a kid-friendly fundraiser by selling children’s books to participants. You can also sell candy and snacks during the book club’s meeting times or t-shirts displaying the book club’s name.

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CMA Solutions

MARCH 6, 2024

In the evolving healthcare landscape, one tactic has become essential for healthcare providers and organizations to attract more patient leads: digital marketing. This case study shows how digital marketing through public relations can boost your practice’s visibility affordably.

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Membership Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

2018 marks the tenth anniversary of the Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report. However, this has not represented a changeless marketing environment. The channels that associations use for membership recruitment and engagement show the most significant change. Payment options have become more sophisticated and automated.

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YourMembership

APRIL 24, 2012

How do you convince someone to join your association when every hour of their lives is booked? Not all organizations are wringing their hands in worry; some are tackling the education piece with a marketing campaign usually seen by Fortune 500 companies. Smith is the Director, Inbound Marketing at YourMembership.com.

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Membership Marketing

JUNE 17, 2024

This article is an edited excerpt from the book Membership Recruitment: How to Grow Recurring Revenue, Reach New Markets, and Advance Your Mission. The result was that Ford unwittingly provided an opportunity for General Motors to gain market share by offering customers a choice of car colors. Find it on Amazon.

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Membership Marketing

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Much of the problem lies in not following sound marketing practices. Here are six bad marketing habits that are killing membership growth. Yet with the marketing world changing at an exceptionally fast pace, breaking the habit of not innovating is more important than ever. That is a lot of competition.

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

It’s time to assess your technology stack and partners because you can’t afford to continue settling for “good enough” technology , not if you want to take advantage of emerging opportunities and meet the changing needs of your members and market. The seven biggest mistakes in membership recruitment. The State of Association Marketing.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 26, 2024

I’ve used data from Marketing General Inc.’s s 2023 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report in many of the posts I’ve written for clients. Last year, 814 associations participated in MGI’s survey, which benchmarks the practices used by associations to recruit, engage and renew members. Email marketing news.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In 2018, my business partner, Kevin Ordonez, and I wrote our book, “Association 4.0—Positioning When you identify what’s truly meaningful to your members, then engagement and recruitment are not a big deal.” I’ll offer a caveat. Don’t wait too long. The best hedge against disruption is the Scouts’ motto, “Be Prepared.”

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Reid All About it

APRIL 30, 2021

Integrated Strategies for Marketing New Products ( Chatting with Agnes & Cecilia). Presenter: evolutionary psychology and marketing expert Tim Ash. Why is membership recruitment so important, and how can you use it to grow your association? Host: Marketing General Inc. (Must join Fridays@4 for free first.).

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Membersuite

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

You should reassess your existing membership model to see if it’s still meeting the needs and preferences of your market. It’s a good time to also expand membership to new market segments by offering something different. A trade association’s market has companies of different sizes, budgets, and membership goals. . Webinar Club.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 14, 2024

All together now: one hundred bottles of beer on the wall, one hundred bottles of beer… Event marketing. Fíonta shares eleven effective marketing strategies for boosting event attendance. If I lived in the DMV, I’d be on this bus for sure. What a terrific way to start the Annual experience. AI for associations. CAE credit.

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Reid All About it

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Many of them admit to not having documented plans for member engagement, young professional recruitment, and lapsed member reengagement—that’s a natural place to start. Extra credit Wine and the sweet hereafter: a lovely story about a visit to a German wine region, a used book from 1956, and sweet memories. Member engagement.

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Reid All About it

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

West Virginia inmates will be charged by the minute to read e-books on tablets. When you recruit members, you’re inviting them to your organization’s “party.” Demystifying Event Marketing. Presenter: Alyssa Peltier, Manager, Event Marketing, Cvent. Ellen Smoley, Growth Marketing Specialist, atEvent.

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Reid All About it

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Focus on values shared by different segments instead—which is also the advice offered by David Allison in his book about Valuegraphics. Jimmy Daly at Superpath explains why you need a documented content marketing strategy , how to assess whether your strategy is working, and what solutions to put in place if it’s not. Content strategy.

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Membership Marketing

MARCH 8, 2019

So how do you make the case for additional marketing dollars? Unlike the purchase of a book, webinar, or some other product or service provided by your organization, membership has a predictable, ongoing revenue stream. Here is an example using data provided by hundreds of associations in the Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 25, 2021

Amanda Milligan, Content Marketing Institute ). Michelle Brien, VP of Marketing and Product Strategy for TopClass LMS by WBT Systems. Presenters: Chase Brunson, Marketing and Development Manager, The Rise School of Austin. Ed Salvato, LGBTQ marketing specialist. Quick hits. Four questions to help vet your content ideas.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 15, 2019

A robust event marketing campaign can be expensive—but you don’t have to have a big budget to succeed. You’ve planned out every last detail of your event, and now it’s time to plug in your marketing strategies to create buzz and boost registration numbers. Nonprofit Marketing Guide suggests these six books to help prevent burnout.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 25, 2022

Professional development market potential. Thorben Grosser, VP of Product Marketing & Events, EventMobi. Book Club: The Art of Gathering. Discuss how Parker’s book helps us rethink parties, events, and even workplace meetings. Tim Prestianni, senior digital marketing manager, Unleashed Technologies.

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Membership recruitment. I love Marketing General Inc.’s s (MGI) annual membership benchmarking report, so I’ve put this new book by Tony Rossell, MGI’s senior vice president, on my list: How to Grow Recurring Revenue, Reach New Markets, and Achieve Your Mission. Arianna Rebolini, BuzzFeed Books ). Quick hits.

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Reid All About it

APRIL 5, 2024

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Apply for a marketing/branding grant. In honor of their 25th anniversary, Mighty Citizen is giving away $100,000 in marketing and branding services. Another is persuading members to make time for association engagement. Gamification at events.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 2, 2023

Anne Lamott If I could teach one marketing lesson. Listen up, my sales and marketing friends. WBT Systems says learning analytics can answer all kinds of questions about your education programs, including their market performance, effectiveness, and value to learners and your association. Don’t have a salesperson call them.

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Reid All About it

MAY 12, 2023

I’m tired of experiencing FOMO for this one, so I’ve already got my flight booked for Denver. The corporate market is a growing profit center for them—and could be for your association too. He mentioned this cool member benefit: peer-to-peer learning networks for people in the same job role, for example, CEOs, CFOs, HR, marketing, etc.

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Membership Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2011

Membership Marketing Blog. Membership marketing – acquiring, engaging, upgrading, and renewing members – is the cornerstone for associations and relationship driven organizations. Open Community: A Little Book of Big Ideas for Associations Navigating the Social Web. Speaking Engagements. Tuesday, January 4, 2011.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 23, 2023

Recruitment and retention remain top-of-mind concerns for employers in 2023. In addition, 80 percent said that upskilling would help them stand out in the job market. It can be as simple as purchasing relevant books for a few employees, and then having them share what they learned with coworkers.

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WBT Systems

JULY 31, 2018

Every association wants to recruit millennial members, but the cost of membership may exceed a millennial’s budget. According to the 2018 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report from Marketing General Incorporated (MGI), the median basic annual membership dues is $212. Recruitment strategy: help millennials get jobs.

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

I’d love to see that phrase in membership marketing copy. Gen Z and millennial marketing. Here’s some help for marketing more effectively to younger generations. Hear predictions on how job roles within membership and marketing departments will evolve, including the skills that will become essential in this new era.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 19, 2021

If you can’t afford the books you need for the CAE exam or if you have CAE books lying around that you no longer need, check out the ASAE Collaborate CAE Book Exchange launched by Cecilia Sepp, CAE. The ROI Member Recruitment Brochure: How to Create Brochures That Positively Influence Membership Decisions. 1 CMP credit.

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Membership Marketing

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Membership Marketing Blog. Membership marketing – acquiring, engaging, upgrading, and renewing members – is the cornerstone for associations and relationship driven organizations. Using Social Media to Recruit Staff. Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report. Know the Numbers on Membership Marketing.

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Reid All About it

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Marketing fundamentals. Tom Roach at Marketing Week says these seven fundamentals of marketing communication have stayed relevant because they’re based on how our brains work, not on how specific technology works. It’s a good list to compare against your marketing strategies and tactics. Board foresight. Host: MemberBoat.

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