"get your membership marketing in shape for 2014: how to recruit, retain & delight your...
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Trends in membership marketing are radically changing with the availability in digital communications, especially automation, which is allowing association staff members to free up time to get creative in their thinking about their brand. The slidedeck includes ideas for membership marketing before making their membership commitment, during the membership period and after expiration.TRANSCRIPT
Get Your Membership Campaigns in Shape for 2014:
New Methods to Recruit, Retain & Delight
Wednesday, January 22, 201412:00pm – 12:45pm EST#asaewebinar
This complimentary webinar is brought to you by HighRoad Solution and ASAE-Endorsed Business Solutions.
Presented by:
Suzanne CarawanChief Marketing OfficerHighRoad Solution
6-Part Wednesday Lunch Learning Series for 2014
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Session 1: Get Your Membership Marketing in Shape for 2014January 22nd
Session 2: The CIA Method: Consolidate, Integrate & Automate Your CommunicationsMarch 5th
Session 3: How to Use Behavioral Data to Lead the Horse to Water & Get Them to DrinkMay 7th
Session 4: Newsletter of the FutureJuly 9th
Session 5: Get Your Buzz On-- Building Event Excitement through Digital Marketing Before, During & Post-Event
September 10th
Session 6: The Myths of Metrics: Creating Digital Communication Dashboards that MatterNovember 5th
Archived Lunch Learning Series
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Session 1: Mobile Email 101
Session 2: Email Deliverability Basics
Session 3: Go Social!
Session 4: Member Preference Center 101
Session 5: The Value of Integration
Session 6: Member Holiday Inbox Basics
Archives found at www.youtube.com/highroadsol
Your Presenter:
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Suzanne has been an ASAE member for many moons. Always working in high-tech marketing, Suzanne strives to “humanize” tech through focusing on user adoption and demand creation. A product and brand marketer by thought, word & deed, Suzanne has worked on many well-known brands within the association community including Advanced Solution International, Higher Logic, Intuitive Business Concepts, Reed Exhibitions, etouches and (C) Systems Global. She is a frequent industry speaker on the topics of brand, lead generation & digital marketing. She has spearheaded too many integrated marketing campaigns to count & loves HighRoad because they make email marketing & webinars easy.
Suzanne CarawanChief Marketing Officer
• Welcome Programs• Re-Permissioning Campaigns (especially Canadians!)• Hyperpersonalized, Automated Campaigns• Net Promoter/Satisfaction Surveys with Incentives• Renewal Programs• Text-to-Join• Facebook Sign-Ups & Contests• Birthday & Anniversary Campaigns
Today’s Content
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So 2013….
2014
Rise of Interesting Relevancy
From: http://www.business2community.com/content-marketing/content-marketing-essential-business-0707484#!sRZCI
Bottomed Out on Discounts
Rise of Content Marketing
From: http://prestoncottrell.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/heart_mind_heart1.jpg
Content Marketing & Brand Promise
Brand Promise & Trust
Best Way to Achieve Value
From: http://smbizmovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/TOMATO.jpg
New Ways to Stay Top of Mind: Pre-Membership Commitment
• Content Marketing• Event Marketing• Social Marketing• Mobile Marketing
Demand Creation & Lead Gen
Top Trends in Content Marketing
Hyper-Personalized Automated Newsletters
Drip Campaigns Based on Response
• Send prospect list invitation to event (webinar, roundtable, seminar, class, conference)
• Prospects that register get thank you (3 days)
• Receive articles & links of interest on webinar topic (7 days)
Drip (Nurture) Campaign Example #1
• Post contest or sign-up on Facebook
• Prospects that enter get thank you (1 day)
• Receive video & articles on interest (5 days)
Drip (Nurture) Campaign Example #2
• Why people are members• Who is a member (name dropping)• What membership gets you (WIIFM)• Debunking myths about membership• Connecting with various sub-groups (age,
gender, ethnicity, career stage, etc) *** need data!
Storytelling & Testimonials
• Provide an option to join in on content that is pre-membership
Text-to-Join
New Ways to Stay Top of Mind: at the Time of
Membership Commitment
• Automate! Send as fast as possible post-transaction to instill trust & reinforce decision
• Send a voice message from CEO/ED• Use a more intimate tone of voice• Provide links to online welcome kit using
video, but open to all• Ask for additional information NOW!
Welcome Programs
• Embrace the survey!• Top data to collect in 2014:
– Mobile phone numbers & carriers– Time preferences to receive info– Topics/areas of interest– Country! – Zip codes
• **Connect in multiple data systems and put into email database for prospecting
More Info, Better Service
New Ways to Stay Top of Mind: During the Member Relationship
Marketing “Things”
• Discounts• Events• Publications• Products• Discounts• Registration Dates
Marketing Benefits
• What People Did with Info• How Org is Moving the
Industry Forward• People that are Members
and Doing Great Things• Power of a Unified
Organization• How Org’s Work is
Impacting Jobs/Environment/Safety
Market What Matters
• Market what they aren’t using: – Communications preference page– Different newsletters they’re not getting– Mobile app they’re not using – Online communities– Social
• Find out why they aren’t using—– Improve, Ignore or Sunset (Eliminate)
During the Membership
Keep Learning About the Member
• Birthday Emails• Anniversary Emails• Solicit updates from membership and
publish to social, as appropriate• Re-permissioning Campaigns (especially
for CASL compliance)
During the Membership
Mobile Alerts/Notifications- Inside Edge
• During the membership (not at onboarding and not at exit)—ask the pivotal question:
– Would you recommend membership to a colleague?
• Use the results! Market the results!
Net Promoter Score Evaluations
New Ways to Stay Top of Mind: Renewals
Membership Expiration Warning:– DON’T start 6 months into the membership!– 60-30 day timeframe for trade– 30-15-day of timeframe for individuals
Renewal Win Back Campaigns:
- Try the phone first to understand Loss
-15-30 and then on the month
Recurring Messages
Storytelling Renewal Emails
• Develop digital campaigns that identify key pre, during and post-membership touchpoints
• Automate wherever possible • Get to hyper-personalization based on
profile data
Summary
Questions?
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Suzanne CarawanChief Marketing Officer
Please join us for our next Lunch Learning session:
The CIA Method: Consolidate, Integrate & Automate Your Communications
March 5th
12:00 – 12:45 p.m. EST
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Thank you!Other questions for Jenny?
Contact ASAE Business Services, Inc.
Email: [email protected] 202.626.2880
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