Three Ideas for Effectively Thanking Members and Volunteers

By Bruce Hammond, Senior Manager of Corporate Marketing & Communications

It's that time of year again – time to eat some turkey and pumpkin pie while watching the Dallas Cowboys and Detroit Lions play in their annual Thanksgiving Day games. But Thanksgiving is also a time where we should do as the holiday’s name instructs – give thanks – to our friends and family, to people who have helped us, and for those of us in the association community, to our volunteers and members.

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Creating Easy, Customer-Centric Conference Registration Forms

By Beth Zemach, Senior Project Manager and Sarah Latshaw, Registration Coordinator

From our previous discussions on membership forms and a new customer’s first experience with our organizations, we learned that less is more. The form and online experience both need to be as inviting and user friendly as possible. However, cumbersome forms and processes are larger than just membership forms; it impacts conference and event registration forms as well.

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Do you have Grit?!

By Marilyn Jansen, Director, Marketing & Business Development

I attended the 2015 ASAE Annual Meeting in Detroit and there was one topic that really grabbed me, probably because I heard it over and over again; that topic was “Grit!”

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Ask the Management Team - Question of the Quarter

By Bruce Hammond, Senior Manager, Corporate Marketing & Communications

On a quarterly basis, we will ask our more than 20 executive level leaders (our Management Team) to provide their insights on a pressing question for the association industry. Here's our first question and answers from a subset of our leadership.

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Five Considerations When Rebranding Your Association

By Louise Ristau and Liz Giannini, Awards and Personalization Association

Rebranding has been a hot topic in the association community for years, and 2015 is no exception. Associations regularly have been seeking to better understand tips and tricks for effectively rebranding their organizations. Here at AMC, our client, the Awards and Personalization Association recently went through the process and we thought we’d share our experiences with you.

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Make Your Customers’ Experience a Delight, Not a Fright

By Beth Zemach, Senior Project Manager

When an association recently transformed its brand and name, it decided to also update its forms, including its membership application.  The membership manager, thrilled at the prospect of collecting loads of great data at a time when fresh members are most enthusiastic to provide it, packed the form with so many items it would be good for only one thing for the new member -- a good snooze. Sound familiar?

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The Impact of Mobile

By Bruce Hammond

As we worked through our website redesign, I took a look at our site’s Google Analytics to get a wide ranging understanding of our site’s traffic.

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Welcome!

By Bruce Hammond

It’s an exciting time for AMC—we’ve launched our redesigned website!

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