You are sitting at your desk working on your next ad sales effort when your phone rings. It is one of your long-time advertisers, and out of the blue, she asks how the redesign of your magazine is going to impact her advertising. Redesign? How did she find out? You know you haven’t talked...
Read more →ASAE held its annual Great Ideas Conference in Orlando, FL earlier this month. During that conference, Aaron Wolowiec and I had the pleasure of presenting a session titled, “Under Pressure: Navigating Extreme Association Trends.” More than 50 association executives hailing from across the country attended our session. We were pleased so many of our...
Read more →I am sure you have heard many times how attendance at face-to-face meetings are down and that webinars, virtual conferences and social media are allowing a percentage of your potential attendees to no longer attend your face-to-face meetings, conferences and seminars. While this may be true in some cases it is definitely not true...
Read more →At the end of the year, you’re scrambling to capture any dollars leftover in customers’ ad budgets and seal the deal on 2014. But no matter how badly you feel the pressure, here are three things you should never do. 1. Don’t undervalue your ad space. You give your advertisers access to an audience they...
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