BlogClump - Blogging About Associations From a Gen Xer

Big Frog of Bradenton – a leader in custom apparel – today announced the launch of AssociationStores.com. AssociationStores.com has one purpose, to make it easy for associations to sell branded gear to its members creating non-dues revenue and minimizing work for associations’ staff. The custom apparel shop caters to associations, non-profits, schools, businesses and the public affording its customers faster turnaround times and allowing them to maximize profits while cutting down on inventory. AssociationStores.com and Big Frog of Bradenton are owned and operated by industry leaders and longtime association execs, Matt and Mary Baehr and their staff. “We saw a need in the market for associations, non-profits, schools, businesses and the public to quickly and easily be able to create custom corporate branded apparel all while eliminating the headaches,” said Matt Baehr. “We have actually worked in associations, as well as in the custom apparel business; so we understand our custo

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I feel awful. I haven't written on here in ages. I left the association world a year ago this week. It has been a crazy year, but it was great. Lots of new beginnings. I will do my best to do a little more on here in 2013. Happy New Year!

In case you didn't catch it last year, I did some Google TV ads testing . Looks like they are doing a little more now.

I got an email from ASAE asking me to vote for sessions for the 2012 Marketing, Membership and Communications Conference. What a great idea. Crowdsourcing at its best. Having been involved in session selection for ASAE before, I am sure that the ones presented to the masses were a vetted list, eliminating the obvious ones that didn't fit/work. But why not ask the very folks who would be going to such a conference to pick their learning opportunities? Now the only problem is scheduling, so that people don't miss sessions they really want to see. I like choice in a time slot, just not TOO much choice.

Our mobile site is mobile.scranet.org. We had it for our meeting that took place last week. It didn't get much usage, but I attribute that to being new and us not publicizing it enough. I think we will see increased growth in usage as we roll it out at our other meetings and increase marketing of it. Having it run wordpress was really nice and flexible. Hopefully we can see more usage sooner rather than later. Any thoughts?