Use Impact Communications to Better Engage Sponsors
Updated: Jul. 25, 2024 | Categories: Member Communications, Revenues
Regular sponsor communications are crucial to strong, ongoing sponsor relationships. Learn what impact communications are and how to make them useful and relevant for your sponsors.
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5 ways to connect more easily with potential chapter sponsors
Updated: Jul. 8, 2024 | Categories: Goal Setting, Revenues
Learn five ways to take the stress off looking for chapter sponsors and make the process of getting people to say yes to sponsoring your association chapter much easier.
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Strategies to ensure you’re pricing your sponsorship packages appropriately
Updated: Apr. 9, 2024 | Categories: Revenues, Outdated Processes
Learn three ways to help ensure your annual sponsorship program delivers the impact you and those who purchase the sponsorships, expect.
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Take a Fresh Look at Your Association Chapter Member Dues
Updated: Mar. 4, 2024 | Categories: Membership, Revenues
Learn how to understand your dues and explore if you need to raise them. And if you do need to raise them, how to make it easier for your members.
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Association Chapter Membership Pricing– Looking to 2024
Updated: Feb. 5, 2024 | Categories: Membership, Revenues
Many association chapters have held prices steady for several years. However, keeping prices steady doesn’t mean costs haven’t gone up. Learn three ways to make association chapter price increases easier on everyone.
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2024 Association Chapter Event Ticket Pricing Actions to Take Now
Updated: Jan. 9, 2024 | Categories: Meetings/Events, Revenues
Learn five 2024 association chapter event pricing trends that will help you set the right price for your events and attract the numbers of people you were counting on.
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Getting association chapter sponsors – it’s not as hard as you think
Updated: Aug. 8, 2023 | Categories: Fundraising, Revenues
Annual sponsorships can take time to plan and aren’t the right fit for all organizations. Here are some ways to bring in association chapter sponsors more quickly, without the financial and time commitment of annual sponsorships.
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3 ways association chapters can improve their revenue – a StarChapter webinar
Updated: Jan. 9, 2023 | Categories: Revenues
Learn non-dues revenue strategies our customers have found successful. Consider trying some of them in your own association chapter.
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Non-dues revenue helps BOMA Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beaches (FTL/PB), deliver value that gets members to stick around
Updated: Oct. 10, 2022 | Categories: Revenues
Melanie Barest, executive director for Building Owners & Managers Association of FTL/PB, shares their local association success with non-dues revenue.
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3 ways to make your job board the first-place organizations post openings
Updated: May. 2, 2022 | Categories: Revenues
Are job postings and resumes enough to get organizations to choose your job board over other posting opportunities? Here are three ways you can help them get the people they need, faster. And bring in additional chapter revenue.
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5 Virtual Ways to Bring in More Money for Your Association Chapter
Updated: Sep. 14, 2021 | Categories: Revenues
Here are five ideas for increasing your chapter sponsorship revenue virtually. Virtual association chapter sponsorship options will continue to fit well in your chapter even when we go back to meeting in person.
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Why Are You Turning Down Sponsors?
Updated: Jul. 12, 2021 | Categories: Revenues
Your chapter delivers value to members and your industry virtually and that value makes your chapter a worthwhile connection for sponsors. Here are a few areas you may not have thought of for sponsorship that don’t require meeting in-person.
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Not Ready to Cold Call Potential Association Chapter Sponsors? Try a Sponsorship Letter
Updated: Jul. 12, 2021 | Categories: Revenues
A sponsorship letter can provide easier engagement to potential sponsors and demonstrate your value and the value of sponsorship to those you haven’t really connected to. Here are five things you should include in your sponsorship letter.
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How Strong Are Your Association Chapter Reserves?
Updated: May. 4, 2021 | Categories: Revenues
Maintaining a reasonable level of financial reserves is essential to an association chapter’s ability to survive. Get ideas for increasing your reserves, while providing your association chapter with income to help cover your operating expenses.
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What to Look for in a Payment Gateway – Reporting
Updated: Apr. 5, 2021 | Categories: Revenues
Learn about the value the right reporting adds to a payment gateway, including decreasing the stress of those who will be managing it.
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The Role of Security, Encryption and Fraud Detection in Association Payment Service Decisions
Updated: Mar. 8, 2021 | Categories: Revenues
Security needs to be on your short list of considerations for an association chapter’s payment service, including security features, encryption standards, and fraud detection.
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Considering an Association Payment Service? Start Here
Updated: Feb. 5, 2021 | Categories: Revenues
Understand how your association chapter can take credit card payments online. Finding the right payment gateway is the first step.
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You’re Missing Out On Engagement If You’re Not Offering Swag
Updated: Feb. 24, 2025 | Categories: Revenues
If you’re not selling swag, you could be missing an easy source of revenue and an opportunity to keep your chapter visible.
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Video is key to your sponsor strategy
Updated: Dec. 30, 2019 | Categories: Revenues
Adding video to your sponsorship marketing program can help you build motivation and credibility in the eyes of potential sponsors.
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Tips for Stopping Internal Theft Before It Starts
Updated: Dec. 3, 2019 | Categories: Revenues
What would you do if you found out that someone inside your chapter was stealing from it? A few well-planned internal theft structures can decrease that risk.
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How to Increase your Non-dues Revenue and Build a Strong Revenue Stream
Updated: Jan. 30, 2025 | Categories: Revenues
Just because your chapter is a non-profit doesn’t mean you have to be limited in your programming or scholarship funding. Time to work on your non-dues revenue streams.
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Building a Sustainable Revenue Stream with a Formal Sponsorship Program
Updated: May. 27, 2025 | Categories: Fundraising, Goal Setting, Revenues
Relying on dues for revenue can be short-sighted. Adding the right sponsorship program can help your chapter remain solvent for the long-term.
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A Plan for your Chapter Finances is Key to Your Long-term Success
Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 | Categories: Revenues, Lack of Resources
Dues alone won’t keep your chapter financially sound. How long could your chapter survive if you had no dues revenue? Learn how to increase your chapter’s financial stability.
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15 Easy Steps to Creating Your Chapter Sponsor Program
Updated: Oct. 12, 2018 | Categories: Revenues
Here are 15 steps to revenue-building success to improve your chapter’s ability to provide more value through sponsors.
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The Importance of Conferences in Non-dues Revenue Building
Updated: Apr. 16, 2018 | Categories: Membership, Meetings/Events, Revenues
15 ways to enhance your revenue with conference extras while growing membership and offering value to members and prospects.
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Part 2 – Marketing Ideas to Close out the Year
Updated: Aug. 30, 2017 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Member Communications, Volunteers, Surveys, Membership, Meetings/Events, Revenues, Website
25 holiday and End of Year themed ideas that increase membership rates and non-dues revenues.
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Three Delicious Blog Posts for the Holiday
Updated: Aug. 30, 2017 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Goal Setting, Membership, Revenues, Website, Announcements
Happy Thanksgiving to our StarChapter blog readers! We greatly appreciate your time, and to thank you, here are three delicious blog posts to read over the holiday.
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Your Chapter and the Community
Updated: Feb. 24, 2026 | Categories: Fundraising, Goal Setting, Membership, Meetings/Events, Revenues
10 ingredients to ensure positive community sponsorship of your local chapter.
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Part 1 – Marketing You Cannot Ignore
Updated: Aug. 30, 2017 | Categories: Member Communications, Goal Setting, Membership, Meetings/Events, Revenues, Website
7 marketing insights that will take your word-of-mouth marketing tactics to the next level for chapter success.
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The Science behind Goal Setting
Updated: Aug. 31, 2017 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Surveys, Goal Setting, Revenues
Using a scientific method for goal achievement within the art of chapter management.
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The 3 C's for Achieving Chapter Success
Updated: Aug. 31, 2017 | Categories: Goal Setting, Membership, Meetings/Events, Revenues, Website
The 3 important ways your association management software can reach effective chapter management practices.
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(Infographics) StarChapter Year In Review
Updated: Aug. 31, 2017 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Volunteers, Surveys, Goal Setting, Membership, Meetings/Events, Revenues, Website, StarChapter News
As we say goodbye to 2015, we wanted to reflect on this epic year in an amazing infographic and celebrate our chapters’ accomplishments.
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The 5 AMS Benefits: A Refresher
Updated: Nov. 21, 2022 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Volunteers, Membership, Meetings/Events, Revenues, Website
There are many reasons to use an AMS to manage your association chapter. Here are 5 benefits to StarChapter’s software you might not have thought of.
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Focus on Value, Not Membership Milestones
Updated: Aug. 31, 2017 | Categories: Volunteers, Goal Setting, Membership, Revenues
Instead of trying to increase the number of association members, consider increasing the value your organization provides. Membership numbers will grow as a result.
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Mid-Year Recap by Numbers
Updated: Aug. 31, 2017 | Categories: Member Communications, Membership, Meetings/Events, Revenues
Our chapters kept busy in the first half year of 2015. They showed dramatic improvement in all performance indicators, from meeting attendance to membership rates. Check out the numbers!
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Meet Baltimore NACE, StarChapter of The Month
Updated: Aug. 31, 2017 | Categories: Responsive Communication, Membership, Meetings/Events, Revenues, StarChapter Successes
Get more members on board with the chapter’s mission and activity – this is Baltimore NACE, StarChapter of The Month
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The Non-Dues Revenue Formula
Updated: Jul. 26, 2018 | Categories: Goal Setting, Membership, Meetings/Events, Revenues, Website
Chapters that want to increase revenues can go beyond dues and gear up on non-dues revenues. There’s a formula to do just that.
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Meet Duval County Medical Society, StarChapter of The Month
Updated: Aug. 31, 2017 | Categories: Member Communications, Membership, Revenues, Board Productivity, StarChapter Successes
Meet Duval County Medical Society, the local Floridian medical society that learned their prospects and is now The StarChapter of The Month.
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Make or Break? The Unmotivated Board
Updated: Mar. 29, 2024 | Categories: Member Communications, Meetings/Events, Revenues, Board Productivity
7 signs that your board is not involved enough with managing the chapter
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