Apr 13, 2017
Guest Post By Amy Gitchell, Marketing and Research Specialist, GrowthZone You need volunteers to keep your association humming. Recruiting them can be tough. Retaining them can be even tougher. However, if you unlock the secret to the psychology behind...
Mar 31, 2017
Guest post: Wes Trochlil, President, Effective Database Management In 18 years of consulting, with ten years of association experience prior to that, I’ve had the opportunity to work on hundreds of projects, both large and small. And what I’ve learned over that time...
Nov 27, 2016
This is the last post in this Follow the Money Series (we think) and a wrap up on when the inevitable happens and your tech partner is acquired or merged. What are the steps you should take? First, pull out your contract and find out when your next opportunity to...
Sep 29, 2016
Just when the conversation was starting to get good, the market has proved us right on target. The fact that there is a tsunami of money entering our association tech market is ringing truer today with the 55M that JMI Equity invested in the online community...
Sep 26, 2016
Guest post written by: Rick Rutherford, Writer, Speaker, and Association Technology Evangelist For more than 15 years there has been a great amount of research, discussion and a little teeth grinding about the Digital Divide – and as often the case, associations find...
Sep 22, 2016
When Derek Leman of 501CIO passed along this post after his first time at AMS Fest, we couldn’t help but to share with you. Great insights from his time in DC. Thanks for sharing, Derek! Lessons from AMS Fest in Washington D.C. When you get together with...
Sep 13, 2016
My sources tell me that the association technology market is attractive because it’s viewed by private equity investors and executives as 1. Highly fragmented; 2. In need of a different management style as companies grow; 3. Entrepreneur-led. Let’s talk about the...
Sep 12, 2016
Guest post by Sig VanDamme, Chief Customer Officer, and Dan Stark, Director of Product Strategy, NimbleUser “Innovation is a new or better idea that meets unarticulated needs, new requirements or existing market needs.”-Wikipedia Innovation is critical to the success...
Sep 9, 2016
Guest Post By: Rick Rutherford, Writer, Speaker, and Association Technology Evangelist There is little question the world of continuing education and professional development has been going through a number of significant changes recently. For associations this means...
Sep 7, 2016
We’ve got the conversation really rolling in this post; we’ll explore what the motivations are of private equities and what types of technology companies they are interested in. Remember in the last post that we described the different types of investments...
