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Truck Stuck! Now What?
I think we’re all familiar with the story of Truck Stuck by Sallie Wolfe. It’s a charming children’s book in which the kids are the heroes, figuring out a creative solution to get the truck…
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Do Your Incentives Make Sense?
I was recently chatting with a newly hired membership director. Their association offers both individual and group membership, and they were looking for ideas on ways to increase individual recruitment and retention. We had a…
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Resolve to Resolve Better
The “icebreaker” activity on every call I’ve joined in the past three weeks has been: “What’s your New Year’s resolution?” Responses have included things like: Productivity. Efficiency. Mindfulness. Pilates every day. No processed sugar this…
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Of Non Dues Revenue and Opportunity Costs
I recently had the opportunity to participate in an ASAE Marketing Mavens call focused on association career centers. My question for the group was: Many of my clients are finding that their career centers are…
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Be the Solution
Why do people associate in the first place? We come together because we have a goal we want to achieve or a problem we want to solve that has proved resistant to individual fixes. I was…
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Most People Don’t…But You Do!
I was honored to join Bart Berkey on the Most People Don’t…But You Do! podcast recently. Our conversation centered around the importance of asking tough questions and, even more so, how to deliver tough answers in…
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“My Members Don’t Read!”
Raise your hand if you’ve heard this. Now raise your hand if you’ve SAID this. (Everyone’s hands should be up by now.) And we can all also relate to hearing, “I didn’t know you did…
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Associations Evolve: 2025 & Beyond
The latest edition of Associations Evolve just dropped. I’m honored to be included with 39 of my very smart association peers in this FREE annual publication, packed with advice designed to help associations worldwide get ready…
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The Circular Economy
What is the circular economy? Why does it matter to associations? Per the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: “A circular economy reduces material use, redesigns materials, products, and services to be less resource intensive, and recaptures…
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Are You Ready to Fly?
Note: I’m re-upping this post “as-is” even though it references an event that took place more than a decade ago because my closing questions may be even more pressing now than they were then. Without…
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