Being a board member is a significant responsibility and with that must come a commitment to be present and participate in board meetings. Easy to say, hard to do for some. Board meetings can be intimidating for some and getting involved isn’t always easy. You might not be comfortable [...]
How easy or hard, how long or short, how much or how little your association’s audit/review engagement 1 will be is in up to your organization—not the external accountant. You can take control of the audit process by meeting with the audit partner/manager and person doing the fieldwork—before the [...]
In the late 1970’s Dr. Robert Means identified four basic sales environments and the corresponding sales person motivational profiles most suited to each. It’s no surprise that he then determined that the success of a sales person was driven by correctly matching the sales person with the most appropriate [...]
I have had the good fortune to attend some professional development sessions over the last few months and feel as though I have come away with a few gems of information that will not only allow me to do my job better, but also help me give advice to [...]
The purpose of this article is to identify strategies to build your association through the recruitment and retention of better board members; these strategies can also be applied to volunteers who are potential board members. There are three cornerstone strategies to board building: Identify the gap between strengths and [...]
Recently I had the good fortune of attending an international convention with one of our association management clients in Las Vegas. The convention had many educational sessions geared towards our client’s industry and one of those was a session on optimizing digital marketing. Although it was tailored to our [...]
You do not have to be a Christian or a member to benefit from a wealth of free resources available from the Canadian Council of Christian Charities (CCCC) (should you choose to join however, memberships, which include deep discounts on office supplies, begin at $30 for registered charities). In [...]
Recently, I attended the Canadian Society of Association Executives (CSAE) annual conference in Niagara Falls. A session on “Today’s Missing Link for Explosive Growth” put on by Ed Rigsbee, author of the book “The ROI of Membership,” made me think about how we frame the features and benefits of [...]
“Membership dues remain the largest single source of association revenue, but its share has been shrinking over the long term.” Dues average 41.4% of trade association revenue, according to an American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) report.1 So if membership dues - as a piece of the overall association [...]
How do your members measure value? How do you sell value to your members? A question that comes up often when recruiting members is the phrase “what’s in it for me?” Society is constantly measuring value and the association world is no different. So what is the answer? In [...]