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Ask the managers of any gym, personal training studio or other fitness-based business what their biggest challenge is and you are bound to hear 'member retention.' Getting new members is [...]

The cost of a 15-month membership year, when carefully analyzed over time, would horrify most chief financial officers. Bill Dodd examines the causes of this malady and suggests four ways [...]

In a time of mergers and consolidations, does your credit union have a winning strategy for expanding your membership? Your strategy may mean pursuing small select employee groups (SEGs) and [...]

Your members don't belong to your association because it's the thing to do. You have to earn their support - then re-earn it every year. How do you do it? [...]

Incoming Meetings Industry Association (MIA) chairman Nick Milne is to prioritise raising awareness of the AIM venue-accreditation scheme and increasing member engagement when he takes on the role in March. [...]

Fairlight has initiated its Dream II Partner Program for manufacturers to streamline the integration of third-party software applications into the open architecture of its CC-1 powered Dream II family of [...]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Armed with a new name, the Credit Union Association of Colorado is expanding its ability to add member CUs and preparing to launch a branding campaign. [...]

LOWELL, Mass. -- CU: Northern Massachusetts Telephone Category: Member Retention/Penetration After a disappointing tally of new members in recent years, Northern Massachusetts Telephone Workers' CU shifted its focus to existing [...]

The following individuals have sponsored one or more members into RCMA between February 2 and July 10. For details on the 2004 RCMA Member-Get-A-Member program, see page 26. Ruth Adair, [...]

The BCS has introduced its new membership structure to MPs and alerted them to the need for professionalism, standards and ethics at a special event at the House of Commons. […]

Andrew Dewey keeps a copy of '7 of Highly Effective People' next to his desk and a photo of former Miss America Angela Baraquio on the wall behind him. On [...]

Associations are cutting out committees, reformatting board meetings, taking greater advantage of technology, and more--all in well-thought-out efforts to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of governance. FOR SOME ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVES [...]

MENC has a new category of membership--MusicFriends--for parents, community members, and citizens interested in supporting music education. For only $14 per year, MusicFriends receive a quarterly electronic newsletter that includes […]

Many people view recruitment and retention as separate entities and do not realize how closely the two concepts are related. AORN chapters work hard to attract new members through the [...]

As with most nonprofit organizations, the National Agri-Marketing Association is driven by membership. That is the obvious and simple truth. What isn't so obvious is how to maintain or grow [...]

Prospective members of the planned Old Chatham Golf Club in Chatham County must be recommended by a current member and approved by the club's board before being accepted. A Feb. [...]

PETERSEN'S SPORTSMAN'S SOCIETY PAYS DIVIDENDS TO MEMBERS AND GROUPS ALIKE The Petersen's Sportsman's Society was kicked off last year to unify hunters and shooters in a tough climate that is [...]

The American Business Women's Association recognises the members who are successful in sponsoring new members. The association's other achievements and programs are also discussed.

To attract new members, Old Chatham golf club slashed its initiation fee from $65000 to $25000. The club has asked for help from its current members in repaying its $6 million debt by contributing a refundable amount of $25000 each.

What a year Coy Hennis, of DAV Chapter 20 in Greensboro, N.C., is having. He started the membership year as the DAV top recruiter for the second year in a […]

An imaginative move by the long-established China trading House of Jebsen is educating winelovers in Hong Kong - and significantly boosting sales of quality wines. The Jebsen Fine Wine Club [...]

How volunteers contribute to attracting and keeping members. While staff roles in an association's membership development and retention efforts are usually welldocumented and understood, the roles that volunteer leaders can [...]

Today's increasingly diverse and mobile memberships require increasingly sophisticated management software. Several readers have requested a series of articles on specific features of association management software. This column is the [...]

Non-profits lift returns by measuring lifetime value, fine-tuning databases and enhancing lists It's not easy being a fundraiser these days. It's bad enough that non-profit postal rates are on a [...]

St. Louis SAE Recruits New Breed of Membership Thanks to its three-year long-range plan, the St. Louis Society of Association Executives recognized one of its weaknesses--it had only a handful [...]

In cooperation with Nielsen Media Research, the Cinema Advertising Council (CAC) will post on its website admissions and theatre representation information provided by Nielsen beginning in mid-November. The CAC is [...]

A campaign by Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) to spur more people to upgrade to chartered membership in order to promote the members achievements, is presented.

After 18 years with no net gain in membership, Professional Insurance Agents of Florida, Inc., Tallahassee, achieved a membership increase of 33 percent and a retention increase of 15 percent [...]

I am honored to have been elected the 1992 Chairman of the Board of The National Management Association. To be a leader of a volunteer organization is the ultimate challenge [...]

Imagine a business with hundreds of branch offices through out the country. Think of thousands of employees - each with years of top management experience. Our association's membership is that [...]

At an early November meeting of his union organizing staff, Henry Nicholas invoked the power of hyperbole, describing the group's upcoming task as preparation for 'the mother of all organizing [...]

AACA Offers U.S. Manufacturers Canadian Connection AACA, The American Apparel Contractors Association, has recently opened up new lines of communication to put its contractor members in contact with Canadian apparel [...]

The Editor tells me that Finishing always tries to cover the AGM of the Institute of Metal Finishing. Alas, it has never been easier -- so here goes! The meeting [...]