How Email Marketing Benefits an Association?

By |2023-05-18T08:25:20-05:00May 15th, 2023|

Email Marketing is an excellent tool for an association marketing strategy. It allows you to connect with your members and helps you to engage and attract new members.  What is Email Marketing?  It is a digital marketing tool/channel where you can provide different promos, announcements, or news to your [...]

Maximizing an Association’s Service Delivery

By |2023-04-28T08:11:10-05:00April 27th, 2023|

I recently took part in an association’s strategic planning session. The goal of the session was to create a three-year strategic plan. During the session, four priority areas were outlined by the association’s leaders. One of the priorities was to Maximize Service Delivery, which is defined as ‘to improve [...]

Recruit the Youth: Association Board Leadership

By |2023-04-20T12:20:54-05:00April 20th, 2023|

Association Boards must be constantly evolving and advancing to stay relevant in their respective industries. This article explains why the youth takeover should now be embraced and appreciated by association Boards and their long-time leaders, and how engaging the youth can only improve an association’s future.  Youth are often [...]

The Importance of Fostering Relationships Between an Association’s Board & Staff

By |2023-04-13T10:52:08-05:00April 13th, 2023|

“The unique and multifaceted relationship between the board and its executive is perhaps the most important relationship leading to organizational success or failure. Like the two partners in a skating competition, each side can either bring out the best in the other or prevent the other from skating well.” [...]

Key Messages: An Effective Communications Tool for Associations

By |2023-03-30T13:21:11-05:00March 30th, 2023|

Key messages are often viewed by associations as the ‘break glass in case of emergency’ go-to tactic when in crisis communications mode or prepping for an unsavoury announcement. Not true! Key messages are the essential building blocks for all communications including annual strategic marketing communications (marcom) plans, campaign-specific plans, [...]

How to Build an Association Crisis Communications Checklist

By |2023-03-09T13:26:10-06:00March 9th, 2023|

Let’s face it; no association wants to go into crisis communications mode. But ultimately most will face an internal or external issue requiring immediate attention. How an association fares during and post-crisis depends on how well-prepared it is to handle one. The key to successfully navigating through a crisis [...]

Balancing Different Volunteer Preferences on Association Boards of Directors

By |2023-03-03T11:36:40-06:00March 3rd, 2023|

Coming out of the pandemic, I have noticed a divergence amongst Board members as to when they’re available to volunteer. Some opt to do all their volunteer work during office hours to preserve their personal time, while others don’t have flexibility in their schedule to volunteer during traditional work [...]

Associations: Navigating the “New Normal”

By |2023-02-17T07:54:49-06:00February 16th, 2023|

The pandemic has all Association Management Companies (AMC) working with their association clients to rethink how to get back to “normal” or define the “new normal” for their operations.  Connecting In-Person vs Virtual   Many associations have returned to in-person meetings and conferences while maintaining the virtual attendance option. Depending [...]

Team Building Exercises to Strengthen your Association

By |2023-03-03T11:23:06-06:00February 2nd, 2023|

Strong teams build strong associations. For an association to thrive and work in an organized and productive way, its staff need to be aligned, inspired, and share a common passion for what they do day in and day out.   There are several methods to create a solid working bond [...]

How to Elevate and Streamline your Association’s Strategic Planning Sessions

By |2023-02-13T14:46:38-06:00January 26th, 2023|

With the new year in full swing, many association’s communications teams are in full swing gathering members to participate in upcoming strategic planning sessions for key events. The end game of any strategic planning session is to effectively produce a solid and comprehensive plan clearly outlining the association’s communications [...]

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