YourMembership.com http://www.yourmembership.com/blog Membership Management Software Wed, 22 May 2013 14:21:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The One Thing You Need to do to Attract Millennials http://www.yourmembership.com/blog/2013/05/the-one-thing-you-need-to-do-to-attract-millennials-to-your-organization/ http://www.yourmembership.com/blog/2013/05/the-one-thing-you-need-to-do-to-attract-millennials-to-your-organization/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 14:21:18 +0000 Christina http://www.yourmembership.com/blog/?p=4350

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TIME Magazine published a recent article entitled The Me Me Me Generation. The subhead read “Millennials are lazy, entitled narcissists who still live with their parents.” The secondary subhead read “Why they’ll save us all.” Before the rage of the Millennial reader befalls me, I want to throw out the two statistics this article touts. People [...]

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While it may seem weird that a technology vendor (with online communities, might I add) would share this post, we want our clients, and those entertaining the idea of becoming our clients, to be successful. This means giving them advice on how to make the most of our products and features. But this post is [...]

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Engage has become quite the buzzword. You can’t go to a conference or read an article about membership or member organizations without someone telling you about the importance of engagement. We even do it here. A lot. But engaging your members has become one of those phrases that has lost its meaning to many and [...]

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You can be the best writer in the world but if you don’t “listen” and “watch” and know your audience, your content will always fall short. Creating top-notch content is as easy as predicting the end of a romantic comedy. But to do it, you have to stop producing what you want to produce and [...]

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Before anyone suggests that engagement and building relationships shouldn’t be a strategy, consider your own personal relationships. At some point, no matter how random the meeting, you made a decision to continue it. You listened longer, you made plans to see one another again, you reached out. Developing a strategy around engagement – be it [...]

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