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Recruit the Whole Person
I was recently chatting with the smart and talented Andrea Rutledge (Executive Director of the National Architectural Accrediting Board) about membership recruitment. Andrea’s been a volunteer with ASAE’s research committee, which supports the work of the…
Read More →Retention is a Relationship
And you can’t claim to have a relationship with people you don’t know. This topic has come up frequently with clients in the past six months, both within full engagements, where we’ve been looking at…
Read More →What’s Your Marketing Resolution for 2016?
I’m totally stealing this idea from smartie Beth Brodovsky, who emailed me this same question recently for her Driving Participation podcast series. My resolution for association marketers would be for us to stop talking about…
Read More →Giving Tuesday Thoughts
#GivingTuesday is not a huge thing in associations – although the ASAE Foundation has done some nice work on social media drawing attention to their donors today (more than directly asking for donations). But it’s…
Read More →The Lean Startup Changes Everthing
I’m excited to share the launch of the seventh whitepaper in the ongoing Spark whitepaper series, Innovate the Lean Way: Applying Lean Startup Methodology in the Association Environment. The whitepaper addresses a simple (but not…
Read More →Innovate the Lean Way
“There’s no bigger waste than investing resources working on the wrong thing.” Guillermo Ortiz de Zárate, Director, Information Systems, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) Given associations’ tight resources, we can’t afford to waste…
Read More →I’ve Looked at RFPs from Both Sides Now – Part 2
Reposting this (slightly edited) Thanks for Playing classic, because this topic has come up recently on ASAE’s Collaborate online community. Clients aren’t the only ones who could use some advice to make the Request for…
Read More →I’ve Looked at RFPs from Both Sides Now
Reposting this (slightly edited) Thanks for Playing classic, because this topic has come up recently on ASAE’s Collaborate online community. In 18+ years in association management, I’ve been on both sides of the Request For…
Read More →Recapping the Outside-In Engagement #Assnchat
Anna Caraveli (The Demand Networks) and I had the opportunity to guest moderate #assnchat on Tuesday, July 14, with discussion focused around the issues we raise in our new whitepaper, Leading Engagement from the Outside-In…
Read More →Leading Engagement from the Outside-In
I’m excited to share the launch of the sixth whitepaper in the ongoing Spark whitepaper series, Leading Engagement from the Outside-In: Become an Indispensable Partner in Your Members’ Success. Co-authored with Anna Caraveli (The Demand…
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