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Membership (3)

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2 membership ideas to steal from this report

Word-of-mouth recommendations and email communications were the two best channels for new member acquisition for membership organizations last year,...

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The surprising reasons you shouldn't exclusively focus on membership

Associations could learn a thing or two from Amazon.

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Is your membership offering enough value?

It’s easy for membership organizations to get lost in the daily details of running a business.

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Why associations need to understand their member voice

As an association, your job is to do three things for your members: serve them, offer connections and make them better at what they do.

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Why a members-only model might be holding your association back

Picture this: It’s Friday night, and you’re walking home through a city. Your commute takes you past a high brick wall with ivy spilling over the...

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Want to keep your members? Make it easy to cancel

In many cases, canceling or downgrading a subscription or membership is a frustratingly long and complicated process in an effort by organizations to...

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How associations can support members when the world stops

Restaurants, movie theatres, casinos, bars and salons have much in common, but as the seriousness of COVID-19 and its deadly potential came to light,...

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The world is more than 'members' and 'non-members'

If there’s one thing the last couple of months as global citizens has taught us, it’s that things are a heck of a lot more complicated than we may...

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2 ways associations can prepare for the future of membership

When Robbie Kellman Baxter first released “The Membership Economy” in the spring of 2015, her goal was simply to prove a “massive transformation” was...

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