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		<title>Connecting with Your Members – Part 1</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: This series will be devoted to the Membership Connection Model that I have been developing the past few years. It will be a synthesis of a number of different concepts and ideas I have presented to multiple groups over the past two years. My desire is that this model gives a complete picture of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a Learning Organization</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 20:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a member of many different organizations; however some of them get more of my time and most importantly, money, then the others. What separates the organizations that get my money from the organizations that don’t? The ones that get the money are learning organizations helping me gain knowledge, apply the knowledge, and facilitate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be a Part of Something Greater</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine the following scenario, you are given the opportunity to attend a favored local sporting event or you can attend a meeting of a group that might improve your abilities. You can go to one or the other for free? Imagine a grand opening of an IKEA or another major destination retailer or the meeting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communicating with Members using AVK learning model</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 11:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.membershipgrowthblog.com/?p=24</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people talk about A, V, and K learners. That is short for: A – Auditory – Listen, hear, audio V – Visual – See, read, images K – Kinesthetic – Do, touch, feel What the models try to explain is that different people learn in different ways. When communicating with your members, it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Membership Pitches</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 13:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.membershipgrowthblog.com/?p=23</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WOW! What a crazy ride it has been the past few months. I am now involved in multiple membership organizations and have been given the role of Chair for a major organization&#8217;s North American Membership Committee. In my new role, I have the task of developing membership pitches for others to use when convincing others [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Down or Bottom Up?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When trying to reach a corporate or business audience for your membership, do you head straight for the CEO’s door? How is your success? If you are like many organizations, then I am guessing that you are not successful at getting meetings with CEOs of major corporations. Why not?]]></description>
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		<title>How can we serve our membership?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MembershipGrowthBlog/~3/X7LCuhMm28s/</link>
		<comments>http://www.membershipgrowthblog.com/2007/11/02/how-can-we-serve-our-membership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take a good hard look at your membership. Are you serving them or are they serving you? The more I get involved with more organizations; I am finding many that are focused more on themselves then their members. Traveling the country talking to people about what they are doing and why they are doing it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Passionate, Open, and Honest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you truly passionate about your organization? If not, how do you expect others to be interested in joining? Passion and purpose are linked when trying to attract new members to your organization. Think about the last time you went into a store to make a major purchase. That is the same attitude that people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is the Most Awesome Tool/Website Ever!</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MembershipGrowthBlog/~3/AXkemXhb5E0/</link>
		<comments>http://www.membershipgrowthblog.com/2007/08/31/this-is-the-most-awesome-toolwebsite-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://membershipgrowthblog.com/2007/08/31/this-is-the-most-awesome-toolwebsite-ever/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While reading through my daily feeds, I came on this post by Phil Gerbyshak about 15SecondPitch. If you want WOW! in your life or your organization then you need to stop reading right now and go to 15SecondPitch. In only a few minutes the site will have helped you develop and post your pitch for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picking Up the Pieces</title>
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		<comments>http://www.membershipgrowthblog.com/2007/08/30/picking-up-the-pieces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I tried to put my principles into practice this week by hosing a Toastmasters demonstration meeting. I lined up a great speaker, got a Toastmaster, and even got the best room in our building to do the demo in. I had even had over 15 people tell me that they were going to attend [...]]]></description>
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