Switching Your Association Management Software Gradually
Bringing in a whole new enterprise system Switching over your association to a new enterprise software for any organization involves risks and a lot of money. It’s a huge, terrifying project that causes a ton of stress and anxiety. How will staff adapt? How will your association like the software once all is said and […]
5 Ways to Keep Member Information Private in your Association’s Public Registry
In the previous 2 posts we talked about some best practices in the public registry area of your association management software (AMS) to keep your member data as useful as possible to the end user. We also talked about some new features of AMS software for regulatory bodies. In this post – I’m going to […]
Improve your Registration/Renewal Emails
It’s that time of year again, time for student registrations and College member renewals. How are you informing people? Many would assume over email, maybe a tiny percentage out there are still using letters. Either way, both are some type of a letter and feature the same things. So, here are our tips to bettering […]
RFP Best Practices To Get Better Responses!
A Request for Proposal (RFP) is something you’ve probably heard of before, and likely squirmed about if it’s something you’ve actually had to write – particularly because of how tedious they can be. The process of the RFP is usually done by regulatory bodies, associations, and large organizations to ask vendors to send them proposals in […]
4 Reasons You Should Keep Your Browser Up To Date
Bananas…browsers…basically the same thing. Right? You might not think so and maybe they are not literally the same thing, but they have one thing in common: DON’T let them get outdated. Rotten bananas are nasty and old browsers are annoying because they make you have a user experience that isn’t the greatest. With a product such as […]
9 Tips for a Great Vendor/Association Relationship!
Hello, October! Just like any business, keeping a healthy relationship with you association management software vendor is key to being satisfied with the product and overall customer service. A great relationship will make projects, training, interactions, and anything in between, easier and more enjoyable. In today’s post, we’ll be discussing tips to having a successful relationship with your […]
Group Management – Are You Doing It Right?
Managing a group of people, whether small or large, can be a huge task. There are so many factors into making sure a project runs smoothly. Such factors include communication, completion of tasks, uploading files, reviewing each others’ work, reminders, tracking time, and so much more. What is a group? Before we get into the […]
Tips that Encourage Member Engagement
After writing the recent blog post about making your College a leader in its industry, we’ve received some questions about how to increase member engagement. As a vendor for association management software and regulatory body software, we’re concerned about member engagement from the perspectives of our clients, Using tools to engage with our own clients, […]
Protect Your Association from a Privacy Breach
Let’s face it, privacy breaches DO happen and they are scary. They are also preventable and able to be prepared for to minimize damage caused by a breach. A privacy breach is when there is unauthorized access to, or collection, use, or disclosure of, personal information. It’s basically the robbery of the right to the privacy […]
5 Tips to Better Online Engagement at your Association
Member engagement isn’t everywhere While member engagement is crucial to being a successful College or association, using every method out there on social media is the wrong direction to go. So you hear about Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Tumblr, and the list goes on… Should you use all of them to reach the now younger members of your […]