Serving Suggestions for your Database?

Posted by Wes Trochlil
I was having some crackers and cheese spread (Wispride Port Wine) the other day, and noticed something on the side of the cheese spread container: serving suggestions. That's right, suggestions on how to use my cheese spread. Now why do you suppose the manufacturer would waste space on suggestions for servings? ...

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5 New Creative Course Pricing Methods

Posted by CindyAE
Here are 5 creative ways to potentially price courses/programs:1. The Radiohead model - "pay if you want." Popular band Radiohead offered a new album download option with customers deciding what ...

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A Hairy Tale…

Posted by Cynthia D'Amour
  Served me right for being on automatic pilot! So I was in the hotel shower and not quite awake… Forget singing. I was running through the main points of the speech I would give in just a few hours. I sort of realized my hair wasn’t sudsy - the way it should be. UGH! Hard water. I grabbed more product ...

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Thank You 2.0 and a Bit More on Learning 2.0

Posted by jtcobb
Mission to Learn is not LifeHacker or Techcrunch, and I’m not Seth Godin, so I don’t tend to hold high expectations for the amount of traffic I get here or track the statistics all that closely. I was pleasantly surprised, therefore, when I saw my traffic shoot through the roof ...

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How not to respond to customer feedback

Posted by Sue Pelletier
Here is a great example of how not to handle negative customer feedback (from The Consumerist via Stuff from Patti Shock): A woman in Brisbane, Australia saw an ad for 50% off the bill at Casa Flamenco, a local restaurant, so she and some friends went out for dinner. The experience ...

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Vinay Kumar joins the clump!

Posted by Maddie Grant
So happy Vinay Kumar has decided to jump in. Subscribe! Vinay is one of the most respected, lyrical and inspirational regular commenters on the ASAE listerves. He was truly born to be a blogger. Vinay, welcome to the blogosphere! You're ...

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Auctioning off your event?

Posted by Sue Pelletier
Here’s an interesting idea from Seth Godin: Run an auction for events with limited seating. Inspired by this new Google Documents feature, Godin says, Say you want 200 people to come to a networking event, the sort of thing that’s no fun if only a dozen or two show up… Instead ...

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How to Grab Attention

Posted by vinaysudha
Last week, I had placed a posting on various ASAE listserves (Communications, Marketing, Membership and Executive) asking folks to respond to 3 specific questions, which were: These 3 questions were: 1. What grabs your attention; 2. What do you read; 3. What do you act on. I was amazed to see such strong consistency in ...

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Meeting in Africa

Posted by Sue Pelletier
I am fascinated reading Jennifer Collins of Meet ‘N Dish’s preparations for holding a meeting in Africa. From her preparations for a site visit, to talking with locals in Ghana, to her most-recent post about relocating to another city, it’s a really interesting look into how it all works. I’m ...

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Association Learning 2.0

Posted by msrops
Check out Jeff Cobb's informative new e-book, Learning 2.0 for Associations for a great introduction to Web 2.0 tools (podcasts, blogs, wikis, etc.) and their impact on association education. It's a free PDF download.

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