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 [...]
The purpose of this article is to help boards to be more effective by focussing on the big picture—not on routine matters—by building on the benefits of using a consent agenda. A consent agenda promotes good time management, allowing Boards “to focus on issues of real importance to the [...]
Associations are in the partnership business - they bring people together. No matter the structure or level of formality of the relationship, successful associations facilitate and build strong partnerships for the profession or industry they represent, for their members and for their stakeholders. As well as those partnerships that [...]
Using a consent agenda can make your board meetings shorter and more productive. It achieves this by combining routine meeting motions into one motion. If every board member does his/her homework it is possible to have a single motion that approves: Meeting agenda Minutes of the previous meeting Reports [...]
As Canada’s most connected event and association management company we are pleased to publish guest blogs by our partners. This post is written by Todd Andres and Nicole Smith, lawyers with Pitblado Law in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Associations often contract out work for a variety of services including event management, [...]