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MAY 22, 2020

Virtual conference complaints—and solutions. We’ve had a few months now of quickly planned virtual conferences and learning events. WBT Systems has been tuning in—they describe ten attendee complaints about virtual conferences and provide suggestions to resolve them. Virtual conference success stories. Here’s another one.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Making a case for conference attendance. If you want to get approval to attend a conference, Barbara Scofidio at Skift Meetings describes five areas to cover when writing an event justification letter to your boss. Inflation-Fighting Budget Strategies Hear about creative cost-savings techniques to impact your bottom line.

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Higher Logic

JUNE 11, 2019

What if you could provide your members with networking opportunities and useful information on the content discussed at your annual conference or industry event, long after it has ended? Want to learn more about how to drive registrations, increase event engagement, and boost revenue?

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 15, 2021

Will associations embrace asynchronous events to help manage the revenue, spend and work load? As organizations shift their energy and resources to adapting safety protocols and freshening in-person conferences and trade shows, will the virtual event and platforms built to sustain them survive or even flourish? What’s Next?

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Blue Sky eLearn

MAY 4, 2020

During this Coronavirus crisis, many planned conferences are being transformed into virtual events. So, beyond your standard questions about event schedule and production cost, what are the other most important questions to ask a virtual events vendor as you investigate their services? References?

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JANUARY 22, 2021

Do we have approval to book live conferences? Breakout room topics will include asynchronous virtual education, virtual conferences, and Zoom tips. Agnes Amos-Coleman, MBA, CMP, education, conference, event, certification consultant, Amos-Coleman. Conference Organizers Summit (Day 1). What does that mean? 1 CAE credit.

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EventMobi: Association Events

MAY 1, 2024

Events play a key role in engaging your members, generating revenue, and achieving organizational goals. Start by identifying the specific goals you want to achieve, such as increasing member engagement, driving more revenue from events , or helping members earn CE credits. Get the Guide 1. iPhone, Android, tablet, laptop).

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Taking a strategic approach to driving non-dues revenue might seem challenging. Read on for proven techniques and technolog ies that will help you boost your non-dues revenue in no time. . Driving non-dues revenue is critically important to your association’s long-term success. Strategies for driving non-dues revenue.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Non-dues revenue. If you’re a podcast listener, check out Association RevUP from Professionals for Association Revenue. Wonk Week (Washington DC) The leading conference for public affairs and advocacy professionals, offering deep dives into grassroots mobilization, lobbying tactics, knowledge management, PAC strategy, and beyond.

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JULY 17, 2020

Meetings Today talked to event planners about revenue diversification, in-person vs. virtual attendee engagement, and managing your mindset. The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology shared some of their sponsorship plans for an upcoming virtual conference on Collaborate (sorry, ASAE members only). Good question.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Presenters: Agnes Amos-Coleman, MBA, CMP, education, conference, event, certification consultant, Amos-Coleman. Held at the ASAE Technology Exploration Conference, the AWTC End-of-Year Reception welcomes all association women technology champions and their supporters. A new episode is posted every Monday by 1 p.m. Mon 12/2 at 5:30 p.m.

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Blue Sky eLearn

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It’s true, if you weren’t already planning on have a hybrid event there will be additional costs incurred, but now you’ll be opening your event up to a wider audience and forging a new path you can repeat and refine for the future. . Turn your face-to-face event into a webinar . Is your entire event getting canceled? Go Virtual!

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Their post describes four ways your association can leverage event and learning data to increase attendance, select content, improve programs and grow revenue. Virtual conference design. He shares ideas to get you started with 2021 conference planning. Fri 12/4 at 10 a.m.* – Generating Revenue in a COVID World.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 15, 2022

In my experience, most large conferences this year are realizing about 80 percent of their 2019 revenue performance. For some of the major annual meetings we’re tracking, sponsorship revenue has been a bright spot when compared to exhibit revenue performance. Cost-plus is the most common method for pricing sponsorship.

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Higher Logic

MAY 13, 2020

If this sounds impossible, it would be hard to achieve this level of personalization with individual outreach alone – that’s not scalable or cost effective. The great ideas and valuable connections members build with each other at your annual conference can happen all the time. Non-Dues Revenue. Member Retention.

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Spark Consulting

DECEMBER 4, 2020

As hard as this is to hear, given what’s happened in associations this year (canceled meetings, revenue down, staff layoffs), it’s unlikely we’ve seen the bottom yet, and it’s likely we won’t see it for another 12-18 months. Back to the example of an annual conference, unlike six months ago, there are success stories on going virtual.

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Association Success

APRIL 11, 2020

Associations who recognize their bottom lines will take a huge hit from lost revenue they anticipated from their annual conference are rethinking their positions on event cancellation insurance. Future event cancellation coverage will cost more based on what’s happening now.”. We’re in the middle of a forest fire right now.

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MemberClicks

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

and relying on a single revenue stream is too risky. This is where non-dues revenue comes into play. By generating non-dues revenue, you can: Grow your association’s revenue Avoid implementing higher membership dues Diversify your revenue streams. What is Non-Dues Revenue? But remember: no size fits all.

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Association Success

MAY 20, 2020

“A virtual conference is not simply back to back webinars,” said Arianna Rehak , co-founder and CEO of Matchbox Virtual Media. There’s a lot of production value, there’s a lot of planning and there’s a whole art and science to putting on virtual conferences.”. Are your speakers volunteering their time or speaking at a cost? .

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

On Thursday (9/26), ASAE is hosting a webinar about a possible existential threat to associations: legislators who want to apply the 21% corporate tax rate to the non-donation net revenue of tax-exempt organizations, like associations. Non-dues revenue. Conferences. AI for associations. Need to sharpen your knowledge about AI?

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

Conference design. Conference/abstract management. Ex Ordo describes how to implement conference and abstract management software for medical, technical, scientific, and academic association events. Competing against niche professional organizations, membership and conference revenue has “slowed to a trickle.”

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Associations Now

APRIL 10, 2019

A new report finds small associations want more nondues revenue but haven’t focused on achieving it. Small associations are eager to boost nondues revenue but have little time to devote to the task, finds a new report from Community Brands. They take a revenue share. I think the story is it’s less of a cost,” Gaertner said.

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JULY 10, 2020

Virtual conferences and events held in March and April were at an advantage—attendees weren’t yet in full-on Zoom fatigue. Virtual conference success. The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians went virtual with their conference early in the pandemic, March 19, to be exact. Virtual conference sponsorships.

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Spark Consulting

APRIL 10, 2024

Jeff Howe , who is credited with coining the term “Crowdsourcing,” was the opening keynoter at the 2009 ASAE Technology Conference, where he mad the point that no matter how smart the people around you are, most of the smartest people work somewhere else. Which revenue, may I remind you, is NOT necessarily going to the workers.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 30, 2020

The dynamics that we’re seeing impact conferences and their business models are very similar to the Freemium movement we experienced way back in 2009. Go ahead and read Seth’s post and then come back for the linkage to conference monetization. To best compete: Premium conferences must choose quality over quantity.

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Higher Logic

MAY 29, 2020

While the way you align your proposed member community with your executives’ goals will vary by association, five of the most common priorities you might find in the strategic plan include new member acquisition, member engagement and retention, non-dues revenue growth, advocacy and legislation, and maintaining relevance. Objection 1: Price.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In this post, they describe the basics and the advantages Open Space has over the traditional conference session format. One difference this year: “For the first time in the survey’s history, the challenge of generating non-dues revenue topped all other obstacles faced by associations.” Membership renewals. More info/register.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

Presenters: Agnes Amos-Coleman, MBA, CMP, education, conference, event, certification consultant, Amos-Coleman. Useful, Free & Low-Cost Tools, Software, and Services for Your Nonprofit. What software tools and services are available to nonprofits at low or no cost that are worth using? Host: Rogue Tulips LLC.

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Smooth The Path

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Many associations are pivoting their in-person conferences to virtual conferences. Some associations are doing away with their conferences altogether. Perhaps they can’t afford to turn their revenue center into a cost center. Traditionally in-person conferences and events were the drivers of that community.

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

.* – Engaging Virtual Meetings Conference 3.0. Attend this 5-day conference with 9 of the world’s experts on hosting virtual meetings. – Engaging Virtual Meetings Conference 3.0. Attend this 5-day conference with 9 of the world’s experts on hosting virtual meetings. . – Do your virtual meetings suck?

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JUNE 18, 2021

Virtual conference networking. Lee Gimpel of Better Meetings is calling out virtual conference organizers for giving the label “networking opportunities” to five types of experiences that don’t deliver on the networking promise , including the ubiquitous chat box. Lessons learned while planning a hybrid conference for APHON.

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Higher Logic

APRIL 2, 2019

You might be familiar with these oft-quoted stats: It costs 5x as much to obtain a new customer than to keep an existing one [ Invesp ]. Engaging current customers positively impacts overall business goals in several ways, including increasing revenue by generating opportunities for sales of additional products and services.

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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Over the past nine months, many industry experts have proclaimed that meetings and conferences are forever changed and hybrid is here to stay. By adopting the principles of product management, organizers can think more broadly about how captured session content can be repackaged or rebroadcast to deliver member value and/or new revenue.

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Leading Learning

MAY 19, 2022

While the cumulative costs of them makes me second-guess whether the trend in entertainment is a clear winner for consumers, there is one type of subscription I have no reservations about: learning subscriptions. So is non-dues revenue. Was that cumulative cost too high? image by imageproject from Pixabay. I was wrong.

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MAY 3, 2019

Hear about 20+ helpful freemium, low-cost, and game-changing solutions out there to make your job easier—tools that can automate your workday and make connecting online easier. Conference Trends Every Meeting Planner Should Know. Tips to Extend Your Event’s Reach and Revenue. Host: Association Data Analytics Brown Bag (virtual).

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OCTOBER 4, 2024

Host: UST Education Speaker: Ryan Graham, Chief Revenue Officer, PropFuel Wed 10/9 at 1 p.m. – Solving the Employee Turnover Problem Most organizations could dramatically reduce employee turnover costs and keep their top talent if they only took some simple steps to address the true reasons people leave. 1 CAE credit. 1 CAE credit.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Hear about the funding-first approach to budget building and how prioritizing budgeting for revenue and support on the front-end of the budget building process helps with funding assessments and aligning and scaling programs, activities, and operations to available funding. And often they can offer their services for little or no cost to you.

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