Memberwise Recognised Suppliers have best practice examples to share. So here we present articles written by commercial suppliers to the membership sector.

The Memberwise Network is the UK’s leading community for those working in membership. Because of this, we create fantastic best practice guidance. We love helping you do your job well. We run conferences and events in London which are supported by our memberwise recognised suppliers. Join the Network and you can access all our resources. You can also join our online community, Connect. This will give you the opportunity to meet other membership professionals and share your questions and ideas. Our commitment is to increase your efficiency as well as enhancing your value proposition. We will help you improve your membership retention and engagement rates. Best practice content is generated by the community so it is timely, current, targeted and robust. Our memberwise recognised suppliers also find our content useful.

So what makes the Network different? Our members tell us it is because we have created a thriving community. A community that is fully inclusive. We include membership professionals, sector experts, influencers, thought leaders and providers. Although we take our work seriously, we know how to have fun at the same time! We support over 8,000 individuals working in over 3,000 organisations. We work with more than 170 Recognised Suppliers to provide our resources.

Are Your Finances Showing You the Full Picture?

2022-10-04T13:36:10+01:00Tuesday, 4 October, 2022|Categories: Membership Finance, MemberWise Recognised Supplier|

The MemberWise Digital Excellence (2022) Report identified that one of the Top 10 things getting in your way is “Inadequate reporting tools”. With unprecedented industry cost pressures, affecting not just your business, but your members too. The decisions you make for your business are more critical than ever before. The key to the best decision [...]

Learn how to become more ESG aligned

2022-09-27T15:53:23+01:00Tuesday, 27 September, 2022|Categories: MemberWise Recognised Supplier, Project and Change Management|

Whether you have a genuine interest in ‘Environmental, Social and Governance’, wish to become an ESG expert within your organisation, or haven’t yet found time to educate yourself about how best to make positive changes in this area, you should look to your suppliers for help. A proactive supplier partnership will help you plan [...]

Want to increase membership renewal? Then you must ditch Microsoft Excel!

2022-09-20T14:18:41+01:00Tuesday, 20 September, 2022|Categories: Member Engagement & Retention, MemberWise Recognised Supplier|

Membership renewals are often a time of stress: for the management team, because they know some will not renew; and for the back-office team too, because of what is often a slow and cumbersome renewals process. A process that can result in lots of calls from angry members. We’ve seen first-hand how broken and [...]

Four steps to fully understand your Membership base NOW …and in the future!

2022-09-12T10:23:49+01:00Monday, 12 September, 2022|Categories: Member Engagement & Retention, MemberWise Recognised Supplier|

Do you want exceptional retention levels? Are you looking to increase your recruitment figures? If so, let me ask you: how well do you really know your members? Does everyone in your organisation know what your members look like and what keeps them engaged? Here’s how you can educate them easily and effectively! 1. SEGMENT [...]

When is the best time to evaluate your member journey?

2022-08-03T11:35:54+01:00Wednesday, 3 August, 2022|Categories: Member Engagement & Retention, MemberWise Recognised Supplier|

It’s a trick question really because the best time was 6 months ago … failing that, last month …last week …yesterday… but we can’t go back and change the past. AND as we are a little over halfway through the year – NOW IS the best time to evaluate your member journey. How are [...]

Clear Communication is key to all digital transformation programmes

2024-04-03T16:50:02+01:00Tuesday, 5 July, 2022|Categories: Membership Digital Transformation, MemberWise Recognised Supplier|

Digital change doesn’t come easily to any organisation, there will always be challenges along the way. New or updated digital system changes can bring some amazing benefits to the organisation and its members, but can also be quite challenging to implement. When you are looking to change the organisation’s working processes, streamline practices and automate [...]

5 Easy Steps to Improve your Membership Data Right Now

2022-07-03T16:12:33+01:00Friday, 1 July, 2022|Categories: Member Data, MemberWise Recognised Supplier|

The MemberWise Digital Excellence (2022) Report found 70% of membership organisations use data to make important decisions and validate key assumptions. However, only 13% of membership bodies considered their staff to have confidence in the accuracy of available data. Bad data has many implications, from personalisation in a marketing email, to accurately reporting on [...]

How to Stop Your Members from Forgetting to Renew

2022-06-28T09:50:23+01:00Tuesday, 28 June, 2022|Categories: Member Engagement & Retention, MemberWise Recognised Supplier|

Retaining members is just as important a task for membership organisations as obtaining new ones. After all, the higher your retention rate, the fewer new members you need to keep on growing! And yet one of the most significant reasons members don’t renew is simply because they forget according to MGI’s 2021 annual report. [...]

If only we had a single member view……

2022-06-22T12:24:16+01:00Tuesday, 21 June, 2022|Categories: Member Data, MemberWise Recognised Supplier|

At the start of my career, I worked for the agency that created the Tesco Clubcard. Tesco wanted to get a view of their relationship with each customer – what was bought, how they paid, which shop type e.g. Express, Metro.  Until that point your supermarkets never really knew what share of a shopper’s [...]

8 ways to improve your membership website performance

2022-06-21T21:39:26+01:00Monday, 20 June, 2022|Categories: Membership Digital Transformation, MemberWise Recognised Supplier|

Your membership website is one of the main ways your potential member can find you. But if it’s slow, clunky or otherwise underwhelming, it’s not a great reflection on your organisation. Worse than that, poor sites are increasingly likely to get penalised in Google search results, meaning less traffic, fewer members, poor retention, and [...]

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