By
Bryan Long, Relationship Manager
Is your chamber of commerce or business association website doing all it can to promote your members? Could you be improving member retention, generating more leads for members, producing more revenue, or even increasing event attendance with a more powerful website and online membership directory?
The single biggest reason businesses join your organization is to gain more business. Through networking, professional learning opportunities and the exposure gained...
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WebLink
recently launched a brand new iPad app designed for associations
and chambers of commerce using the WebLink Connect membership
management system to conduct mobile commerce by accepting credit
card payments for new memberships, current member invoices and
event registrations when away from your office. The WebLink iPad
app has only been out a few days, but the feedback has been
amazing!
By Chad
Bouslog, Membership Management Specialist
By
Mike Lobue, Membership Management Executive
By
Rory Beall, Membership Management Executive
Recently,
my son was helping me with his homework (yes, you read that
correctly!) and it made me think about ways that business
associations and chambers of commerce can solve problems with their
data.
Recently, The
Schapiro Group, an Atlanta-based strategic consulting firm,
released a national survey of 2,000 adults that indicated
significant benefits for businesses active in their local Chamber
of Commerce. The full results of the survey can be viewed on the

But
some members are naturally more inclined to renew based on how they
feel about your association BEFORE they join. You'll create
greater chances for success at renewing these members if you can
identify them before they join so you can:
It's that time again where we all reflect on our
successes and failures of the previous year and create a list of
things we promise we're going to do differently in the next
year.
The
user experience of your association website reflects who your
organization is, what it has to offer members, and represents your
credibility in the industry. If it is hard to navigate, difficult
to understand or isn’t engaging, you can count on any traffic you
have driven to your association website to go somewhere else. How
can you improve the user experience of your website? Here are five
proven methods for doing just that.
