Getting the best value out of your membership with trade associations, professional societies and other professional communities.

1. Getting the Best Value
out of Associations
What
“Great Membership”
is all about
Including 3 golden tips

2. Are you a member of a
trade association, a
professional society
or some or other
professional group?

3. Are you satisfied with
the benefits and
services you get?

4. (…)

5. There are 2 things you
should know about
associations

6.  They work hard on being a
respected ‘authority’ in order
to influence stakeholders
 They work hard on satisfying
their members in order to keep
them

7. Basically,
their core-business is
to help you grow your
business!

8. Believe me,
they have a whole
trunk full of goodies

9.  We’re talking serious
information, documents and
data, rich content, Business
Intelligence, networking
facilities, ways to link you to
colleagues, clients and
stakeholders, all kinds of
services,…

10. How do you benefit?

11.  They constantly look for
touchpoints – offering meetups,
workinggroups, educational
programs, conferences,
newsletters, publications,
questionnaires, …

12. But do they
really know what
you need ?

13. On the other hand…

14. Do you know what you can
expect ?
Do you really know what
you want ?

15. Our BizNiz Master
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16.  Know how and where to look
for the association’s goodies
 Learn how to create a
rewarding interaction with your
association
 Look differently at your
business and the world you’re
in

17. Let’s start with
these 3 golden
tips

18.  Does your association really
know who you are, what you do
and what you can bring in
return to them
– engage in different ways with
your association in order to
stay on ‘top of mind’

19.  If you’re looking at the
associations publications, and
you don’t really find what you
need, did you talk to them
about it
– chances are that they do have
basic material on what you’re
looking for

20.  If you’re a member of more
than one association, do you
keep in mind that they probably
have a different approach and
definitely another solution to
your needs – the one not
necessarily conflicting with
the other

21. Let’s do BizNiz
Let Great Membership
inspire Your Business!

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