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Do you have a list of your TOP 100 “Dream Members”?

The first step in the member recruiting process is to make a list of specific companies that you want as members. It’s not “rocket science” but this step gets overlooked often. Sure, every Association has a giant list of “non-member” contractors and sub-contractors or a drop list or some other document listing a whole variety …

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How to Harness the “Power of Affinity”, Watch your Membership Renewals Soar

There are dozens, if not hundreds of ways, processes and strategies for increasing retention. There are eight point plans, twelve step plans, eighteen “touch” plans and more. Most of them would probably work pretty well if they were implemented and used on a regular basis. A lot of times the main reason that these plans …

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Possibility Thinking Can Increase Retention and Non-dues Revenue!

I had a conversation with an Executive Officer recently about doing a retention mailing to a “lost” member list and as usual the word “budget” came up. Although the odds of this particularly creative mailing being successful and paying for itself many times over was very high, the necessary upfront investment just wasn’t in the …

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