Business Development
Why a Business Development Strategy is Vital to Association Revenue Health
Associations aren’t effectively strategizing. That is one of the key findings from the Professionals for Association Revenue (PAR) Association Business Development Landscape Survey in which 86% of respondents said their organization’s business development strategy is underperforming or non-existent. See why that’s a problem for associations working to remain relevant in a changing economic landscape.
6 Mindset Shifts to Improve Your Association in 2023 {Video}
Small shifts in mindset can spark impactful change within our associations. PAR’s six GOAT Award Finalists are association professionals who are impacting their organizations in transformative ways each year. They each shared one way association professionals can shift their mindset and improve their approach in 2023.
4 Tips to Focus Your Forecasting
Our lives are made up of forecasting – and while planning doesn’t eliminate uncertainties, it does help us prepare for them. Here are 4 tips to get your team started with a focused forecasting plan.
How to Keep Corporate Sponsor Investment in Your Association
Associations are no longer the obvious advertising choice for corporations looking to connect with consumers. Digital outlets, social media channels and corporate websites mean companies have choices – and associations have competitors. But how do associations beat out the competition to increase and keep corporate sponsor investment?
3 Tips for Selling During Times of Economic Uncertainty
Economic uncertainty means different things to different people. But if you are in the business of sales, we think you’ll agree: selling in 2022 is challenging. Global sales and marketing advisor Ryan Dohrn shares three tips for sales teams to survive and thrive during times of disruption.
3 Steps to Making and Maintaining Meaningful Conference Connections
Event sponsorship and exhibits – once the foundation of association sponsorship programs – are now the starting point for companies looking to engage with an association in year-long brand awareness and thought-leadership opportunities. Associations that provide exhibitors with a positive and valuable conference experience have the advantage when it comes to growing relationships… and revenue.
Managing Your Relationship with Your CRM
Customer relationship management (CRM) software is the hottest and fastest growing software on the market. By 2025, it’s expected to reach over $80 billion dollars in revenue. But bring up the term “CRM” to your colleagues and you will likely invoke a smile or a squirm — and often both.
Approach Your Suppliers as Collaborators and Improve Revenue
As more associations get back to a familiar business model in a post-pandemic environment, there is opportunity to change the way organizations are approaching industry suppliers. PAR Leadership Advisory Board Chair Sean Soth shares how association leadership teams can develop a flexible approach to business development to collaborate with industry suppliers.
PARtners @ Work: COACH MEdia
Business development professionals bring unique backgrounds, skills and educational experiences to a profession that no one goes to college to learn. “Sales” isn’t listed among the roughly 2,000 college majors offered by universities across the country – meaning new sales professionals must learn on the job. Read on to find out how COACH MEdia helps them do it.
Poll: Are Sales Skills More Important to Business Development than Ever?
The way organizations sell has changed forever as a result of the pandemic. More members and clients are looking for sales teams to help guide them through a process while providing insight or challenging their held presumptions about your membership, subscriptions, events and partnerships.
Poll: How Connected is Your Association?
Associations are industry touchstones for thought leadership, connection, and resources for professional development. The way associations engage on LinkedIn continues to evolve. As the largest professional network on earth, LinkedIn provides opportunities for association revenue producers to add value to their relationships while learning more about industry news and views. Is your team leading or losing out on LinkedIn?
Law of Attraction: How High-Performing Associations Attract High- Performing Revenue Producers
Associations that are ready to up their performance should begin by embracing one key concept: To become a high-performing association, you must attract high-performing revenue producers.
PAR GOATs Share Insights for 2022
In the final webcast of 2021, The Professionals for Association Revenue celebrated the PAR community’s top contributors and recognized them as the Greatest of ALL Twenty-Twenty One (GOATs). In this video and post, our GOATs share what they learned in 2021 and give insight into how they believe associations can best move forward in 2022.
Turning Challenge into Opportunity: PAR Members Look to the Possibilities of the Future
“Wouldn’t it be great if…?” That’s the question PAR webcast presenter and Unmuted CEO Rachel Druckenmiller presented to our PAR audience in her webcast, 2020 Vision: How to Reframe and Refocus Current Frustrations into Future Success. We look at some of their answers in this recap.
Grow Your Association Through Corporate Partnerships: OnPAR-Ep11
In a recent PAR webcast, Bruce Rosenthal of Partnership Professionals Network (PPN) explored how associations can be more successful by shifting from transactional sponsorships to transformational partnerships. This OnPAR Video Short recaps why Bruce says it’s becoming increasingly difficult to retain corporate sponsors, and how associations and their sponsors can build a mutually beneficial relationship in 2021 and beyond.
3 Keys for Association Marketing Teams to Support Their Sales Teams
When sales and marketing teams work together effectively, revenue increases and associations expand. It’s a fact that’s earning the attention of association marketing teams, too — 54% of marketers say they are empowered to collaborate with sales teams (a year-on-year growth rate of 86%, according to Salesforce).
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Revenue Renegades: Top Takeaways From Sales KPIs Every Association Team Needs
Top Takeaways from Sales KPIs Every Association Team Needs. Review key takeaways shared and learned during PAR Revenue Renegades meet-up.
This past Wednesday, revenue producers from the association industry came together to chat about most used KPIs and metrics. Participants shared which metrics are most important to track daily, weekly or monthly, and discussed the concept of tracking numbers to improve instead of to prove.
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Best Ways to Develop Your Team Now: OnPAR-Ep10
Changing work environments and new look teams can make it challenging for association leadership to provide meaningful and accessible professional development. In this OnPAR Video Short, top association executives from our PAR Leadership Advisory Board answer the question, “How can association professionals best develop their teams now?”
10 Ways to Close More Sales Deals, Faster
COVID-19 accelerated the changes to the association sales process that were already taking place prior to the pandemic’s arrival. As our business development teams work…
3 Questions: How COVID Has Shifted the Sponsorship Paradigm
In our “3 Questions” series, we ask top industry professionals to answer three questions within their area of expertise. In this edition, we’re talking about…