Adding Facebook Plug-ins To Your Wild Apricot Website

Have you been wondering if you should add social plugins - such as a Facebook Like Button or Activity Feed - to your website? Our helpful support Apricots have developed easy-to-follow instructions on how you can add 5 Facebook plugins to websites powered by our Wild Apricot Membership Management Software.  Read more...

Recalibrate Your Association Membership Renewals

If your organization is rolling out a renewal program, or even if you're already in the midst of sending out renewals, you may want to take note of some of the findings of the Membership Marketing Benchmarking Survey produced by Marketing General Incorporate (MGI). The Survey found that in 2010, most of the associations who participated in the study reported "renewal rates between 80% and 90%. Renewal rates were even better for smaller associations (with fewer than 1000 members) with 90% or higher."  Read more...

WA Software News January 2011

The New Year started on a pretty good note for us at Wild Apricot - we released version 4.1 on January 12th. This Software News post offers an overview of the key new enhancements in version 4.1 as well as an update on our next upgrade - 4.2 - scheduled for May.  Read more...

Building a Non-Profit Website: Choices, Choices!

So your non-profit organization needs to get a website, finally - or to revamp the existing website, perhaps to make it work better for your members and donors, perhaps to reflect a change in direction or brand. No matter what your non-profit website's design and content will be, there are two big questions you need to nail down early in the planning process: How will we build our website, and where will its files be hosted?  Read more...

Using a Content Strategy to Promote Your Organization

This is a guest post by Ja-Naé Duane, artist, creative economist, social media strategist and a faculty member at Northeastern University. Ja-Naé is also CEO of Wild Woman Entrepreneurs, Ja-Naé Ventures, Co-founder of the Massachusetts Artist Leaders Coalition, Founder of The Leaders and author of "How to Start Your Business with $100."  Read more...

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