Here is a must do for you. Download the recently released 2018 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report from Marketing General. It's their 10th annual report with lots of trends, data, and insights about membership organizations. You will find it super valuable. It's 79 pages and free.

One recruitment channel that has seen recent growth in reported effectiveness is paid digital marketing. ...digital channel was almost invisible in our research until 2015.

Associations with increases in their one-year membership and five-year membership numbers are significantly more likely to have a higher percentage of millennial members.

In looking back over data from the last ten years, it is significant to note that the 2018 key membership statistics mirror the resiliency that associations have reported over this period, perhaps challenging those who have prophesied the imminent demise of the association membership model.

When it comes to fulfilling new memberships, for 2018, only 44% of associations report sending a mailed welcome kit to onboard new members. This is down from 51% in 2017and significantly down from 83% ten years ago in 2009.

In our 2010 research, only 22% of associations reported offering automatic annual credit card renewals. This payment method has expanded over the years. Automatic annual credit card renewals are especially popular among IMOs, with 45% making this option available.

When asked the engagement opportunities that associations report as increasing over the past year, over half of individual membership associations report increases in participation in the following areas: in their public social media (73%), in a private social network (59%), in their young professional program (54%), and in attendance of their webinars (52%).

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