Silverbear Membership Blog

Following on from last week’s blog post about the features of membership software, this week we’ll discuss what the core benefits are and what the important integration points are.

The key benefits of membership management software can be summed up into main points:

Increase membership acquisition and retention Increase financial control over membership subscriptions and activities Engage with members in a more appropriate way Communicate in a more efficient way Manage events more efficiently Provide more value to members Improve membership loyalty Cut costs Increase control and visibility Gather membership intelligence Many of these benefits are reliant on the ability to integrate the membership software with back end office systems and the corporate website.

Linking the corporate website with the membership software improves the level of service to both the organisation and to members. It means that members can interact with the member...

Membership organisations that rely on the acquisition and retention of members are now turning to technology to help manage their members and provide a higher quality service. Membership software can provide huge cost and time savings, but it is vital that it can be integrated into back end systems such as the finance system, CRM and the corporate website. These blog posts discuss the benefits of membership software and the specific benefits provided when it is integrated into key back end office applications.

Part One – The Key Features of Membership Software Many membership organisations are taking advantage of the benefits of technology by employing the use of membership software. Membership software enables member managers to organise, oversee and control their membership base with improved levels of efficiency and visibility. It can help to boost member enrolments and help reduce the number of members that fail to renew their subscription.  More often than not it pays for itself through the increase...

In our previous blog posts on this subject I have already covered Internal Communication Methods and Membership Web Portal . The third and final part of this blog will cover Reporting & Analysis and Integration.

Reporting & Analysis Increasing the efficiency in the level and type of service you offer to your members can really only be accomplished by measuring and analysing the feedback you get from your members. This can be a very complex and time intensive activity which is often pushed aside as there always seems to be more urgent matters to take care of! Being able to identify your membership clusters, such as geographic breakdown, job titles, profiles, dashboards and KPIs is fundamental. The segmentation of your membership base and the ability to analyse detailed reports will make sure membership managers are able to analyse their members such as the who, what, where and why, whilst still ensuring each membership group receives relevant and targeted communication.

As membership organisations...