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One of the most powerful marketing techniques in today’s challenging economy is networking.  As reported by the Neilsen’s Global Online Consumer Survey recently, 90% of 25,000 consumers surveyed reported that they trusted recommendations from people they knew vs. online search results.

These are powerful results and only proves that networking is the key to any successful person or organization.

Networking does take time and effort and can be done using a few different mediums. These could include:

Social Media – Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, ...

Whether you are building a client contact list or a member list there are a few key points to take into consideration to help increase the value of your list.

Most member and client contact lists contain one contact for each company. Why is this?  What if that contact moves to another company, leaves the job, is fired, etc.? Who do you contact then?

It is always a good strategy to not only have the person that you consider your key contact/member ...

I recently came across a survey report that was generated by Marketing General Inc.  They conducted a survey, of over 500 association professionals on the best tactics and strategies found to have positive results in engaging new members, renewing existing members, and reinstating former members.

The survey is comprehensive and contains a wealth of information that includes some of the higher level points below as well as results and graphics that display: How Prospective Members become aware of the Association, How ...