Wild Apricot

MAY 10, 2018

If you are looking for ideas to refresh your membership renewal process, you’re not alone! With access to thousands of organization across North America, we decided to conduct an extensive survey on their membership renewal practices. We combined the results from that survey to research conducted by the Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report (published by Marketing General Incorporated) and other sources to create this helpful guide.

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YourMembership

MAY 7, 2018

Over the years, the Internet has provided great opportunities for nonprofits to increase brand awareness, recruit new members and raise funds for the causes they support. While this brings many advantages, there are also many challenges when it comes to making online payments for such things as dues or donations. Members want to be sure. The post 5 security tips for your nonprofit accepting online payments. appeared first on YourMembership.

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Reid All About it

MAY 11, 2018

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… DelCor consultant Mike Guerrieri explains how to build a strong business case for a new technology project. He reveals what association execs and IT leaders (having been one himself) consider before giving a project the greenlight. Just what the association community thought would happen: America’s fastest-growing technology conference is leaving the U.S. for Toronto.

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WBT Systems

MAY 10, 2018

How can your organization expand online learning reach? Learn from successful corporate market strategies! Wednesday, May 23, 2018 – from 1-2pm ET. Selling online learning content to individuals is challenging enough. But selling that same content in bulk through corporate customers or partners can be even more demanding. The business models are fundamentally different.

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Here’s Your Blueprint for Year-Round Member Engagement. Are you ready to transform your association into a thriving, 365-day community? Download GrowthZone’s ebook, How to Create a Community Your Members Can’t Get Enough Of , and learn strategies for leveling out the peaks and valleys of member engagement. This guide provides actionable strategies to create consistent networking opportunities, deliver value-packed content, and foster connections that your members won’t want to miss.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 9, 2018

Need a quick and easy way to send email blasts to your chapter? Hate all the paperwork involved in processing dues? How about standing at the front of an event to collect all the ticket fees? Fraternity Management Software is something that can make your life much easier, so you can get back to bonding with the brotherhood (or sisterhood).

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Aaron Wolowiec

MAY 11, 2018

Recognizing the dying state of newsletters, the American Association of PAs downsized to a single e-newsletter to deliver news while better engaging its members.

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WBT Systems

MAY 8, 2018

Dozens of studies have come to the same conclusion: online discussions strengthen student engagement and learning. But what can you do to increase student participation in online discussions? We’ve been doing some studying of our own and found a dozen tactics that will help you get students more involved in online discussions. Why online discussions are essential to the learning experience.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 8, 2018

If you want to spend more time on the road, and less time sitting around in the office managing your club, Cycling Club Software may be for you. That’s because it eliminates most of the administrative work when it comes to managing members, payments, your website, events, and more, allowing you to focus on what’s important — your members (and maybe tuning up your bike).

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Eric Lanke

MAY 7, 2018

I participated in a SURGE Spring 2018 session on co-creation. Don't know what SURGE Spring 2018 is? It's an online, virtual conference put on by Association Success. Sessions were recorded and were broadcast May 2-4, 2018. While each session was being broadcast, the speakers were present in the chatroom to interact with participants and answer their questions.

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Speaker: Jessica Bonney from VICA and Jeff Horne from Wicket

What does delivering an exceptional member experience mean in today's world? With the right insights, tools, and strategies, you can identify what truly matters to your members, drive meaningful engagement at scale, and continue to meet the ever-evolving needs of your members. Join association experts Jessica Bonney from VICA and Jeff Horne from Wicket who will share practical insights on how to build an exceptional member-driven experience by gaining a deeper understanding of your members and d

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Aaron Wolowiec

MAY 9, 2018

For the seventh consecutive year, Association Laboratory has completed its Looking Forward series, which captures sentiments from senior association executives for a variety of factors.

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Jamie Notter

MAY 11, 2018

I know that many leaders are losing sleep about low levels of employee engagement. So you think it would make sense to actively pursue engagement, right? I mean, who would want any disengaged employees? Okay, I agree: it would be great to have all your employees going home every day thinking to themselves, “Wow, this is an awesome job! It aligns with who I am and where I’m going professionally, and it allows me to be very successful personally, while still contributing to the success of the ente

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Smooth The Path

MAY 10, 2018

You do not need a massive, complex, and perfectly polished new member onboarding plan to start engaging new members. Pick any one of these seven successful tips from the research to engage new members early in order to engage them for life! Train everyone working registration to warmly welcome every attendee. Find out if your AMS sends the first email new members receive and rewrite it.

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GrowthZone

MAY 10, 2018

Our latest publication, Quote Notes for Associations , is a sharable, strategically-selected collection of famous (and not so famous) sayings to inspire and motivate. Engage your members and prospects with dozens of motivational quotes that can be used in blog articles, newsletters, and across social media. They’re perfect for: Social media posts (think #MondayMotivation).

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Customer education has become a key driver for growth, retention, and product adoption. Our latest 2024 State of Customer Education Report uncovers critical data and insights from a survey of over 200 industry leaders, offering a look at the evolving role of education in driving business success. Inside, you'll find data on key trends and strategies, including: Strategies for Scaling & Customization: Find out which investments in learning technology deliver the biggest ROI and scalability.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 7, 2018

Do you love your association management software (AMS)? If you said “no,” then it may be time for a change. With so many AMS platforms available today, it’s often easy to get caught up in all the bells and whistles the softwares claim to have. But, it’s not only about the features, ease of use and efficiency. It’s also about positioning your association for the future with a technology platform and partner who exceeds member expectations.

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Beth Kanter

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. I also delivered a workshop to South Carolina nonprofits on the same topic hosted by Shine The Light, Nonprofit Forums.

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Association Success

MAY 7, 2018

Takeaways from the Learning-Technology-Design Conference 2018 Developed and hosted by Jeff Cobb and Celisa Steele of Tagoras , the annual Learning ? Technology ? Design (LTD) event is an online conference designed for professionals in the business of continuing education and professional development. The goal of the event is to help attendees find new and better ways to engage learners and create lasting impact through technology.

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GrowthZone

MAY 8, 2018

Jumpstart your blog with step one of simple association blogging techniques. Admit it, you’re a scanner. We all are. There’s a lot of content out there, and if a blog post doesn’t quickly grab your attention in about 10 seconds, you move on to the next one. To blog or not to blog is not a question. Get your copy of. How to Write an Association Blog People Will Actually Read.

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Sales often gets a bad rep. Yet, if securing sponsors, advertisers, and exhibitors is part of your role, it’s essential. But what if it didn’t have to feel time-consuming, uncomfortable, or worse—icky? Join us for the 3-part virtual Sales Accelerator Labs , where customer experience and sales expert Carrie McIntyre will show you strategies to make sales easier, more effective, and dare we say, enjoyable!

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Nimble AMS

MAY 6, 2018

Jay Ablian. EVP and GM of Partnerships, BluePay. Community Brands brings you this information from our partner, BluePay , which offers fast, easy and secure payment processing solutions to fit every organization’s needs. Whether a nonprofit or association, BluePay is the all-in-one credit card processing company for any business. This blog post first appeared on #Onward, the YourMembership blog.

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Smooth The Path

MAY 8, 2018

In association land, we do not always get what we pay for. Free or low-cost solutions are not always bad. At the same time, high-cost solutions are not always good. This is true for associations and also true in many industries. In healthcare, many medical advancements are associated with considerable expense but, not this one! A few pioneering hospitals have adopted the pre-flight checklist idea from aviation.

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Association Success

MAY 8, 2018

How we started thinking like a web startup – and what happened next. In 2012 my association was confronting member disengagement and depletion. We knew that less than 50% of our members attended our events (for multiple reasons). 15% of the membership consisted of international members and the relevance of associations had waned somewhat through the 00’s.

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HighRoad Solution

MAY 11, 2018

What is it? Set to take effect May 25, 2018, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was designed to systematize data privacy laws across Europe, protect the data privacy of EU citizens, and empower residents of the EU with more control over their own personal data, giving them a say about how their data is handled, including what information is used, whether it is transferred to third parties, and when it is erased.

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Membersuite

MAY 10, 2018

Email marketing is kicked up a notch with sophisticated marketing campaigns and assured email deliverability.

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Idea Architects

MAY 5, 2018

You know the old adage, "don't let perfect be the enemy of good." It's tempting to hold off on making improvements until you've got just the right enhancements ready to really rock the return on investment (ROI) a participant gets from attending your workshop or conference. But while you toil away to build the perfect, your participants often find an immediate good and register for another event.

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Association Success

MAY 6, 2018

Get more out of responses to customer and member problems by learning from your mistakes. When a member contacts your organization with a problem, you have to come up with a solution fast. After assessing the situation, you identify the issue and come up with a quick fix, and they leave the interaction satisfied. But what made them call in the first place?

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Aptify

MAY 7, 2018

Community Brands brings you this information from our partner, BluePay , which offers fast, easy and secure payment processing solutions to fit every organization’s needs. Whether a nonprofit or association, BluePay is the all-in-one credit card processing company for any business. This post first appeared on #Onward , the YourMembership blog.

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Speaker: Radhika Samant and Todd Wuestenberg

Employee recognition has often been deemed a "feel-good" initiative, tied closely to rewards. While we understand its importance, we tend to associate recognition with intangible outcomes like engagement and sentiment, rather than direct impacts on retention and high performance. In today’s workplace, the true ROI of recognition lies in its ability to regenerate tangible, business-driven results.

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Mizz Information

MAY 11, 2018

Remember that time last summer that I declared that I was done blogging about social media and was pivoting to writing about mental health? Or how almost exactly a year ago I wrote about mental health stigma and how it seems to be much worse for older people than younger ones? And then I proceed to pretty much not write about mental health at all? Probably not, since nobody really reads blogs anymore.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 11, 2018

Is your organization stuck in a 20th Century time warp and on the endangered list? Are its structures, business models and operations using outdated methods resembling a relic of the past? Or are your organizational work processes thriving in today’s increasingly hypercompetitive, fast-paced and interconnected marketplace? In order to be a successful 21st Century organization, our structures, operations and governance models need to move from managing tasks to managing minds to paraphrase Minds

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Beth Kanter

MAY 9, 2018

Note from Beth: George Weiner from Whole Whale wrote this insightful piece about the Google Ad Grant program. He kindly offered to let me republish here. . Help I Just Lost My Google Ad Grant – Guest Post by George Weiner. The title of this article is becoming more frequently used by the roughly 35,000 nonprofit recipients of the popular Google Ad Grant.

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