Attracting new members and retaining current ones is vital to the success of your association.  Your association's abilty to keep it's members and visitors coming back leads to higher conversion rates and higher retention rates.  But getting them to return on a regular basis can be difficult.  The key to accomplishing this is to create a great online user experience.  

As you slide into your holiday weekend, perhaps we'll have you thinking about forms and funnels whilst gliding down a watery ride at your local water park. For that reason, I thought it would be fun to go through the thinking behind marketing automation, lead generation, and business development. Make your digital marketing efforts work harder for you, so you can play harder for the fourth of July. 

Does your organization have lapsed members? We all do! Not all hope is lost, however, if you run the right campaign.

Content marketing is the creation of quality blogs, articles, videos, and emails that seek to educate and inform potential buyers.  While the end game is the same as traditional marketing, content marketing is an approach that is more subtle.  By giving the buyer helpful content to make a more informed purchase decision, your brand is building a relationship with the buyer and establishing itself as knowledgeable and trustworthy.  The infographic below lists 7 reasons why content is still king.

To make the most out of your search engine management campaigns, you need to make sure that your Google search click-through-rate (CTR's) are as high as possible. High CTR's in your Google search will not only bring you more customers, it will also lead Google to give you a higher ranking. Here are a few tips for increasing your CTR.

There are many benefits to event marketing.  From increasing brand awareness, to connecting with your prospects and customers, to using it as a platform for your product launch, event marketing is a key ingredient to boosting leads and sales for your business.  Yet there is one aspect of event marketing that most marketers are failing to capitalize on.  Using the event as an opportunity to gather fresh content for their content marketing strategy.  You see, each event offers a chance to capture amazing content to include into your marketing strategy.  It will add authenticity, relevancy, and creativity that will ultimately improve your bottom-line.  Here are six quick, easy ideas to create engaging content at your next event to bolster your content marketing strategy.