Chamber membership

199 Ideas: Membership Recruitment and Retention

By ASAE Membership Section Council
In this practical new book by the #1 non-profit publisher of membership resources, you'll learn how to:find new members in your own backyard, attract prospects that will pound on your door demanding to get in, and keep those members once you have them. The 199 sure-fire ideas presented here is your best bet for attaining membership growth and greater income to support your organizations valuable mission.

199 Ideas; Member Service and Engagement

By Caryl Tynan
From the publisher best equipped to support membership organizations—Association Management Press—comes a brand-new book full of ideas and methods for engaging members, increasing membership revenue, and sustaining growth in your non-profit organization through your most important asset—your MEMBERS.

Membership Essentials

Recruitment, Retention, Roles, Responsibilities, and Resources By Sheri Jacobs and Carylan Assante
It's all here in this guide to membership development and operations: setting up a membership function, financial management, using research, member benefits, recruitment and retention strategies, dues structures, communication, operations including membership database tips, and more.

Member Management Essentials for Chamber of Commerce

(The Membership Management Report) By MMR
Originally published by Stevenson, Inc., this practical resource provides Chambers of Commerce with helpful information regarding growing, managing, and serving membership. From creating a plan and strengthening member benefits to recruitment strategies, this manual is filled with best practices and examples of what various Chambers of Commerce have done to achieve membership success.

Millenium Membership

How to Attract and Keep Members in the New Marketplace By Mark Levin and Harvey Mackay
Explains six steps in understanding and meeting members' needs in associations and other organizations. The six steps, covered in separate chapters are identify the new marketplace, invest in technology, move from mass marketing to mass customization, maintain the human touch, brand the organization, and create a membership experience.

The Decision to Join

How Individuals Determine Value and Why They Choose to Belong By James Dalton and Monica Dignam
This book explores the impact of issues on membership like: the image of associations, reasons members drop, generations and career level, gender, and employment setting.

The End of Membership as We Know It

Buiding the Fortune-Flipping, Must-Have Association of the Next Century By Sarah Sladek

Membership is not dead as author Sarah Sladek so eloquently argues in The End of Membership As We Know It. But you do need to change your thinking and your models to adapt to the way participation is changing as a result of the generational shifts in the workforce, social changes, and the technology-eased access to content and community.