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Member Segmentation: Is It Limiting Your Success?
Member Engagement
Chris Vaughan, PhD

Is Your Member Segmentation Strategy Holding You Back?

Reading Time: 4 minutes Most associations segment their membership in the same way: by career stage. So young professionals might be one segment, mid-career folks another, and so on into retirement. They do it this way because it seems obvious, and it’s easy – but is there a chance it’s wrong?

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Effective Strategies for Mission-Driven Membership Growth
Member Growth
Chris Vaughan, PhD

Mission-driven Membership Growth: Strategies That Work

Reading Time: 3 minutes Associations are always “mission first” in word and often indeed. Yet many have led less and less with a mission in their efforts to revitalize their membership. Enhancing member value and experience have been the guiding lights for association growth.

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Elevate Your Decision Making with Intention: A Powerful Approach for Associations.
Interviews
Chris Vaughan, PhD

The Power of Intention: Elevating Your Association Decision Making

Reading Time: 3 minutes Intentional choices can be hard in the best of times. What’s a necessary choice as opposed to one that would be nice to make? How do we choose between things that are all necessary when we can’t have them all? How can we be confident about the decisions we make? How can we explain our choices to other people?

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Is Your Affinity Product Strategy Missing the Mark?
Strategy
Chris Vaughan, PhD

Why Your Affinity Product Strategy Might Be Missing the Mark

Reading Time: 2 minutes Membership organizations have always offered third-party products to their members. This usually means a discount, sometimes bearing the association brand. Affinity products have served essential roles. They provide value to members, giving them a reason to join and renew.

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Are You Properly Aligned? Take the Nonprofit Alignment Check-Up Now!
Strategy
Chris Vaughan, PhD

Nonprofit Alignment: Are You Inside Out or Right on Track?

Reading Time: 2 minutes Eighty percent of executives say creating an “outside-in” culture is a high priority for the future. Outside is where the good stuff happens. Buyers buy. Inventors invent. Competitors compete. An outward-focused organization has its eyes on the action.

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