The Science of Association Revenue Growth

Everyone is talking about non dues revenue growth.

They talk about new revenue centers, sponsorship models, education products, certifications, events, and services members will pay for.

The problem is that this is often exactly the wrong place to start.

Revenue growth is a derivative of economic value and experiential value.

If an association wants sustainable and predictable revenue growth, it first has to understand how to create significantly more value for members across the entire membership journey.

And many of the old methods are no longer enough.

Traditional member insight approaches are increasingly outdated. Incremental innovation is too slow. Thought leadership is being challenged by artificial intelligence. Professional networks and micro networks are increasingly owned by platforms like LinkedIn. And the traditional association event is too often viewed by members as a cost center rather than a high value opportunity.

That does not mean associations are becoming irrelevant.

Quite the opposite.

I have worked with associations for nearly 30 years, and I continue to believe they can be some of the most important and valuable organizations in any industry.

But we need to take another look at how revenue growth is actually created.

The opportunity is to build better member insights, create higher levels of economic value, dramatically improve the membership experience, develop more relevant innovation pipelines, and design products, services, events, and communities around what members truly value today.

When you get the value right, the revenue opportunities become much easier to see.

That is what I explore in this podcast: The Science of Association Revenue Growth, including several methods that are producing real traction.

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AI Gone Wild and What to Do About It

Most organizations begin their AI journey with the wrong question:

What can AI do to make us more money and save us more money?

That sounds logical. It is also where many bad AI decisions begin.

When cost reduction and revenue extraction become the starting point, organizations often automate the wrong things, remove valuable human interaction, frustrate customers, alienate employees, and create technology that technically works but produces a worse experience.

Successful innovators start somewhere else.

They ask:

How can we use AI to create a better human experience while also improving the economics of the enterprise?

The best organizations are building formal Human Experience Innovation® strategies that establish a human first standard for every AI decision.

That means evaluating AI not only by efficiency, productivity, and financial return, but also by its impact on customers, employees, trust, accessibility, relevance, and the overall experience.

This creates something most AI initiatives desperately need: governance.

It provides guardrails that protect customers and employees while helping organizations identify where AI should automate, where it should augment people, and where human interaction should remain human.

The irony is that a human first AI strategy is not anti technology.

It is one of the best ways to achieve a significantly stronger return on AI investment.

The future will not belong to the organizations that deploy the most AI.

It will belong to the organizations that deploy AI in the smartest, most human centered way.

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Listen to my latest podcast, The Innovation Keynote Speaker, because the speaking industry has a credibility problem and your audience already knows it.

Over the last 24 months the market has been flooded with people who read a few articles about innovation and then declared themselves experts. They are cheap. They are available. They will also cost you the room.

Here is the DNA of a real innovation keynote speaker.

They are an actual inventor. Researchers and former Googlers talk about innovation. Your audience wants someone who has done it. Real world pedigree is the only credential that earns respect from a stage.

They are a multiple number one bestselling author. That matters because the innovation community has already reviewed, challenged, and validated their thinking long before you ever sign a contract.

They can name dozens, ideally hundreds, of big brand clients who are glad they hired them. References are not a formality here. They are the entire story.

They are a performer. A great keynote is built like a great movie, with an opening act, a main act, and a closing act. High energy entertainment on the outside. Novel, actionable insight on the inside.

Book for those four and your audience leaves changed. Book on price and you will hear about it for the next year.

What is the best keynote you have ever seen, and what made it work?

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