Category: Association
Here’s a scenario: A prospective constituent visits your website. The site is a little outdated making it difficult for the person to navigate through the pages. They think, "maybe if I can search for the exact content I'm looking for, I would get there faster?" With a couple more clicks around the site and no place to type out search terms, this discouraged potential new member has bounced off your website.
Forcing your team to engage with a subpar system, in whatever capacity, can often lead to staff inefficiency and displeasure and member frustration or loss. Nobody wants that, right? Your membership management software should be an asset to your organization, not a hindrance. How will you know which yours is? If you’re experiencing one or more of the following issues, your current software could be hurting more than helping and in need of an upgrade.
When it comes to membership software, there is a lot to consider: features, cost, and whether or not it is a good fit for your business. To help you answer these questions, we've outlined six key questions to ask when searching for membership management software.
Any plan is only as good as your ability to execute it. Without board approval for the purchase of a new membership management software, your plans to promote the long-term viability of your organization are all but dead in the water. It stands to reason, though, that your board is as invested in organizational growth as you are, which is a good thing!
That common ground likely means that board members will be open to proposals that put your organization on the path to continued or renewed success. Presenting your desired membership management software using the following 5 steps should make adoption and investment a no-brainer.
The final (and likely selling) point of your board presentation revolves around the estimated cost of the prospective membership management software. Now it’s time to move beyond estimations and get down to brass tax. The following 4 steps will put you and your organization on the path to a manageable budget and organizational growth.
You’ve secured board approval. You’ve set a workable budget. What’s left to do? See if anyone wants to do business with you, of course! How might one do that, exactly? Crafting a solid Request for Proposal (RFP) is a good start. Including the following 4 sections in your RFP will go a long way in introducing your organization and its expectations effectively.
After interviewing many different associations, chambers of commerce, and nonprofits, we found that they were deeply under-served in their software requirements. To compensate for this, they ended up doing massive customization to the CRM software and/or creating integrations with other software applications. This only compounded the problem because they ended up with either costly consulting fees that only the consulting company understood (key man) or a spaghetti bowl of different software applications creating integration and upgrade problems. Here's 5 tips for choosing a solution.
Choosing an association management software can be a pretty daunting task. So what should you consider when choosing an association management software? We’ve rounded up our 7 best tips for choosing the right option for your organization.
There are a number of reasons why people dislike their association management software but we've listed 6 of the most common ones. Check it out below.