To close out the year, we’ve offered up the Best of the Wild Apricot Blog in 2013, but we also wanted to look at some of our favorite non-profit and membership posts that we’ve bookmarked on Apricot Jam. So here's a link round-up of posts that provide thoughtful reminders, clever infographics as well as offer insight on trends for the coming year.
The three posts we've chosen offer insight into focusing on members at the beginning or the end of their membership journey.
This post by Jeffrey Cufaude (Idea Architects) was published back in August, but it offers great insight into how “organizations address the ones who got away, the long-time members or customers no longer in their ranks”.
How do organizations address the ones who got away, the long-time members or customers no longer in their ranks?
Members and customers make decisions partially based on the perceived return on investment of an organization’s offerings. If we don’t let people know the value that they’ve been missing, how can we ever expect to get them to reinvest as a member or customer?
With just a few weeks left in 2013, the wave of top ten lists and year-in-review articles is flowing in full tsunami force. Here’s seven shifts that seem to stand out for the younger generation of association professionals.
Whether you love, hate or have never seen Breaking Bad, there’s a lot to learn from its emotionally intense, can’t-stop-watching storytelling.
Nancy offers some tips and “to-dos for your nonprofit storytelling” along with a great infographic.
You Can’t Riff Without a Guitar. News flash: You’ve got to do the basics before you improvise.
...Sometimes moving forward is just going back to the basics.
Check out the post for all 10 trend predictions and details.
This is just a taste of the Delicious collection of membership and non-profit posts and articles we’ve bookmarked on Apricot Jam during 2013. But you can also check out the latest posts on topics such as: Membership, Volunteers, Communications, Events, Social Media, Leadership and Fundraising.