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Impexium explains how to increase your association’s sponsorship revenue with a new relationship-based and expertise-focused approach to corporate partners. She shares three questions to help you declutter your media and other non-dues revenue products before adding anything new. Membership value. Association media. Host: rasa.io
Let’s take a look at a few ways you can shift challenges into opportunities, keep your association top of mind, and maintain your revenue stream in 2023. Look Beyond Top Line Revenue Most people define success by revenue generated, but in today’s economy, we need to go beyond the numbers. Read more about their story.
If youre embarking on an AMS project, start your research with 108 Ideaspaces list of issues to consider when selecting an association management system (AMS). Lead Marvels helps you make a case for a new revenue stream at your associationsponsored content. AMS selection. Again, are you offering and promoting this aspect of membership?
Similarly, analyzing your event data from many angles can lead to a major impact on revenue. For example, people who attend your Annual Meeting may not overlap with the same group that attends your Technology conference. If you change event registration systems, make sure you get all of your historical data from your old system.
Learning revenue. Post-conference buzz. This months topic is current best practices of best of breed volunteer systems and how they apply or don’t apply in your association to both the national level organization and your chapter/components More info/register (ASAE members only). Makes sense to me! More info/register.
Introduction Is your association looking for new non-dues revenue ideas? With a learning management system (LMS) your association can prioritize non-dues revenue while boosting learner engagement and streamlining staff processes. Here are eight non-dues revenue ideas for your LMS: 1. There’s the rub: great content.
Is your association generating as much non-dues revenue as it needs to, wants to, or has the potential to? One great way to do this is to look to your online education and certification programs – with your Association Learning Management System, generating non-dues revenue is easy!
This week Eric Kuhn, opening keynoter at ASAE’s 2017 Marketing, Membership & Communications Conference advised attendees to “ adopt social media next practices , not just best practices “, when describing social media as one of the most powerful marketing tools for associations. Value of Digital Badges for Association Members.
If youre embarking on an AMS project, start your research with a review of 108 Ideaspaces list of issues to consider when selecting an association management system (AMS). This isnt just a conference; its a celebration of legacy and a roadmap to the future of purpose-driven work. AMS selection. More info/register. More info/register.
Conference/event evaluations. Education revenue. D2L describes the four factors to consider when developing a revenue strategy for your association’s education programs and five models for monetizing those programs. Do you use the same event evaluation questions year and year? Do you use all the data you collect? 1 CAE credit.
Organizations offer a wide variety of professional learning opportunities to their members, employees, and partners which range from online courses and webinars, to regional or annual conferences, to classroom-based learning. Reasons Members Attend Events. It turns out that the two key reasons are Networking and Education.
On the trade association side, revenue or staff size can be vital in how you treat a member organization. That a conference doesn’t have to be cookie-cutter, there can be sessions that draw everyone in. This could be looked at as a tweak of a sort of “mentor/protégé” system that many associations want. He has fun stories.
WBT Systems is delighted to be an official partner of the 2017 NiUG New Orleans Conference , hosted by NiUG International , May 22-24. WBT Systems has been has been helping Associations to build and improve their education and certification programs since 1995. ” We are very excited to sponsor NiUG New Orleans!
But to do this effectively, you need to have a system in place for gathering, organizing, and accessing the member information that provides you with insight into their goals and preferences: an association management system, or an AMS. Want to know which members attended your event or participated in specific sessions?
What are the essential functions of a Learning Management System for Associations? Confirming that your LMS supports these standards ensures that your time and resources have been invested wisely in creating engaging content and selecting the best learning management system to deliver it to your learners.
Conferences consume a great deal of your association’s time and financial resources. The truth is: conferences are not the most effective method of transferring knowledge. In most associations, only a small percentage of members attend conferences. Why Continue the Conference Learning Experience.
If you’re an association professional who is responsible for business development, exhibitor sales, non-dues revenue programs, or any other revenue growth roles outside of membership sales, please complete this survey , which should take less than ten minutes of your time. AMS selection. 1 CAE credit. More info/register.
Leveraging a robust membership management system enables chamber professionals to engage members and develop their chamber instead of focusing on mundane, repetitive tasks. To put it simply, an AMS provides chambers of commerce with an all-in-one member management system to: Streamline operations. Generate revenue.
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Future conference attendance. A new report from Bruce Rosenthal Associates, HPN, and Ricochet Advice, The Conference Roadmap to Recovery , presents survey responses from 8,525 association members on their likelihood to attend conferences in 2021. Hybrid conferences. Adults need guidance counselors too, says WBT Systems.
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?
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.
If your members have to acquire new knowledge and skills to thrive in this new pandemic environment, WBT Systems suggests offering this type of certificate (and digital badge) program. Planning virtual conferences. Agnes Amos-Coleman, MBA, CMP, education, conference, event, certification consultant, Amos-Coleman. 1 CMP credit.
WBT Systems shares the advice of two association execs who launched a certification during the pandemic. Virtual conference pricing. Agnes Amos-Coleman, MBA, CMP, education, conference, event, certification consultant, Amos-Coleman. Maximizing Revenue through Smart Pricing Strategies. Certification launch. Host: Halmyre.
WBT Systems suggests putting on your behavioral scientist hat if you want to recruit and engage volunteers while virtual fatigue is running rampant. Do we have approval to book live conferences? Breakout room topics will include asynchronous virtual education, virtual conferences, and Zoom tips. Virtual volunteer fatigue.
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Inclusive conferences. Barbara Palmer at PCMA Convene lists eight ways conference organizers, sponsors, speakers and attendees can make conferences more racially diverse. Conference and education teams. Virtual conference advice.
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Virtual conference engagement. Because so many associations are quickly converting their in-person conferences to virtual conferences, WBT Systems shares advice on engaging virtual conference attendees with the right kind of content design, networking ideas, and other extracurricular activities. More info/register.
Just as we are seeing more organizations delivering education and certification programs through online Learning Management Systems , there is a growing expectation for organizations to be able to communicate and share knowledge with their customers, members, or employees efficiently and expertly online.
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Virtual conference pricing. WBT Systems describes the different factors you need to consider when pricing a virtual conference , and right at the top they say, “Your virtual conference should not be free.”. Virtual sponsorships.
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Design thinking is completely doable when you get it explained to you like WBT Systems does in their post, Design Thinking for Associations: Let’s Take It from Conceptual to Practical. Meetings Today talked to event planners about revenue diversification, in-person vs. virtual attendee engagement, and managing your mindset.
You can’t market as usual right now, you must market carefully and caringly , says WBT Systems. Chapters can continue to generate non-dues revenue by partnering with their sponsors in new ways. Virtual conference success story. Virtual conference of the week. Chapter sponsorships. Virtual event sponsors and exhibitors.
They especially get in the way when you’re leading up a project, so thankfully WBT Systems suggests 11 catalysts for cross-departmental collaboration. Presenters: Agnes Amos-Coleman, MBA, CMP, education, conference, event, certification consultant, Amos-Coleman. – Strategic Revenue Growth: Thinking Beyond Members and Sponsors.
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WBT Systems suggests a baker’s dozen ways to differentiate your online learning programs from the competition. Most of the people I know who exhibited at virtual conferences this past year were not pleased with the results. Virtual conference pricing. – Revenue Success from Scratch: One Association’s Story.
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I attend a lot of webinars and conferences about non-dues revenue, including Non Dues-A-Palooza. I realized recently that hardly anyone is talking about AMS (association management system) as a revenue generator ; this makes no sense to me! So why isn’t your AMS part of YOUR association’s non-dues revenue strategy?
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.
Host: UST Education Speaker: Ryan Graham, Chief Revenue Officer, PropFuel Wed 10/9 at 1 p.m. – Learn how aggregating content from your third-party disparate systems allows your resources to be more easily discoverable, increasing user engagement and satisfaction. 1 CAE credit. More info/register. 1 CAE credit. . – 1 CAE credit. . –
Teri Carden is cooking up a phenomenal-sounding digital experience for anyone interested in increasing their non-dues revenue. If you create education and conference program titles and descriptions for your association’s website, search engine optimization (SEO) will make those programs more discoverable by potential learners and attendees.
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