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Donald Cowper
05 April 2018
This is a guest blog post by Ben Bisbee, the presenter of our free webinar on 7 Ways to Increase Member Engagement in a Distracted World. Click here to watch this webinar. Art is fun. As a nonprofit, allowing yourself to direct your mission and vision...
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Donald Cowper
02 October 2017
Associations that struggle to attract and engage younger members typically break one key rule. In this post, membership expert Amanda Kaiser reveals what that rule is, and how you can apply it so your organization brings in younger members.
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Donald Cowper
20 July 2017
Are you worried your association is dying off? Member engagement expert Sarah Sladek gives you a formula that will predict your organization's life expectancy, and shows you how to ensure your association continues to thrive.
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Terry Ibele
19 April 2017
This membership database selection guide is perfect for small organizations, associations and nonprofits just getting started with formally managing their member data or looking to switch systems.
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Donald Cowper
03 March 2017
Many membership organizations struggle to grow their membership. Joy Duling shows you how to avoid the pitfall of throwing away marketing dollars, by following an 8 step formula for keeping members forever.
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Terry Ibele
12 January 2017
For many associations the annual conference is the biggest association event of the year. But, what many associations don’t realize is that the annual conference can also be their biggest member recruiter. Here's how one association uses its annual conference to add hundreds of members each year.
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Terry Ibele
23 December 2016
To find out how your database management processes stack up against the top nonprofits, take this short quiz that Wes Trochlil (Founder of Effective Database Management) helped us put together. This quiz is designed to help you identify areas to improve, and give you expert tips.
At the bottom of the quiz, compare your score against others.
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Terry Ibele
16 December 2016
In 2012, Kim Elliot discovered that a check she’d written never got cashed. This discovery would inspire her to take over an association that was struggling and turn it around, tripling its membership within the first two years.
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Terry Ibele
24 October 2016
At Wild Apricot we’ve helped over 17,000 organizations set up their membership databases. From our experience, here are the 10 mandatory membership fields to keep track of.
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Terry Ibele
20 April 2016
Wild Apricot is jam-packed (apricot jam that is) with tonnes of resources to help you succeed with your organization. Take our test to see how much Wild Apricot knowledge you've picked up!
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Terry Ibele
18 April 2016
I like to think that importing your members into Wild Apricot, is like moving your family into a new home. You first want to make sure the house was well built with a good foundation.
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Terry Ibele
05 April 2016
No, this isn’t the latest 5-step dance move. This is a process that captures someone's email address from an offer on an online sign-up page, and then through a sequence of automated emails, entices them to become a member of your organization.
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Dmitriy Buterin
31 March 2016
Next Monday is the start of our Membership Growth Online Summit. It's going to be the biggest webinar event we've ever held. In other news, our Chief Architect also has a full update on Solution Splitting, an internal project that's been in the works for 2 years.
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Anton Livaja
18 March 2016
How active are you in Social Media? Maybe a better question is, how has your ROI been with Social Media? The first step to turning a great ROI on Social Media is to have a great strategy. Join the Membership Growth Online Summit to hear Amy Sample Ward share her social media strategies.
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Terry Ibele
15 March 2016
As a nonprofit manager, one of your main initiatives is to attract and retain new members. You’ve tried various marketing campaigns, but they take a lot of work (plus the payoff is largely unpredictable). All this can be solved by an automated Marketing Funnel.
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