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How To Get The Most Out Of Your Member Jungle Subscription

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Over the past year and a bit, I have been exploring the Member Jungle system, interviewing different team members, and figuring out the best ways to use all of the different Member Jungle modules. I have been writing articles on how each of these modules works and sharing tips and tricks to maximise their usefulness.

However, up until this point, they have just been spread out over our Learning Centre, so today, I am going to briefly cover all the different Member Jungle Modules and how they work while giving you all the links to all the other articles that dive deep into how to maximise all of those systems. 

So bookmark this article because it is going to be a really good resource and jumping-off point for you when you want to find out how to do something or how to maximise a certain system. 

In this article, we are going to cover how to maximise the following parts of Member Jungle:

Your Club Website At Member Jungle

Your club's website serves as its digital clubhouse and is incredibly important. It is often the first point of contact for potential new members and a space that current members often see. Therefore, it's vital to ensure that your website is visually appealing and engaging. A well-designed website creates a positive and welcoming first impression, sparking curiosity and encouraging visitors to explore further. For existing members, a user-friendly, informative, and engaging website fosters a sense of belonging. It helps them stay connected to the club's activities and updates. 

Your website reflects your club's brand and values. A modern, visually pleasing design suggests a vibrant and well-organised club, while an outdated or cluttered site might convey the opposite. A compelling website can also serve as a powerful recruitment tool, showcasing the benefits of membership, highlighting upcoming events, and simplifying the process for potential members to join. Additionally, your website can function as a central communication hub, providing news updates, event calendars, and important announcements to both members and the wider community.

This is something that I have covered a lot and will continue to cover as more advances in website design occur.

For now, if you want to find out about branding and how to design an effective website, read Why Your Club Needs A Well-Designed Club Website.

To learn how to make your website more visually appealing and effective, see 3 Simple Ways To Improve Your Club's Website. 

If you want to know more about the club branding side of your website, see the following article.

Your Club Mobile App At Member Jungle

Your club's mobile app is an incredibly useful part of the Member Jungle system. It enables you to communicate with your members more easily and effectively. The app facilitates quick, direct communication on the go, sends push notifications to members' phones, and more. It also allows members to display their digital membership cards. Additionally, it can be used to manage event attendance by using the in-app scanner to scan members' digital membership cards or event invoices on entry.

Our app is completely free for both admins and members and is constantly improving and being updated to better serve both administrators and members. 

For an overview of the benefits of the app, get your peepers on A Club App To Help Your Club Or Association Thrive.

The app is a critical part of the Member Jungle, but if most of your members haven't downloaded it, you aren't getting its full benefits. Read 5 Ways To Get More Of Your Members Using The Member Jungle App to help fix this. 

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If you need to know how to help your members if they have any problems with the app, check out How You Can Troubleshoot For Your Members On The Member Jungle App.

While Member Jungle chatrooms are available on both the website and the app, most users will use them via the app so let’s talk about them here too. 

Your Automatic Renewal System At Member Jungle

This one needs no introduction. You know why getting the most out of your automatic membership renewal system is important, how much time it can save you, and how far it can go towards helping increase your member retention rates, so let’s just get straight into the article covering how to do so. 

Your Club’s Events At Member Jungle

Events are at the heart of most clubs. Regardless of the type of club you run, your field of interest, or the number of members, events will likely play a significant role in your club's activities. The ability to easily plan, organise, advertise, run, and review events efficiently will greatly impact the number and quality of events you can host.

So, with that in mind, let’s look at how you can use the Member Jungle system to make your events as good as possible. 

Firstly, for a general overview of how to run an event with Member Jungle, see How To Run An Event With Member Jungle - A Guide.

For a look at running online events in particular, check out How To Host An Online Club Event With Member Jungle.

If those weren't specific enough, I’ve even written one on how to run a car club event with Member Jungle: The Member Jungle Guide To The Best Car Club Event. Also, this article features a picture of my beloved and sadly deceased van, so check it out for that alone: R.I.P The Whale. 

While it’s not explicitly about events, emergency contact details are something your club should organise, especially if you are an outdoor adventures-type club. So, have a look at Emergency Contact Details and Your Club Members to see how Member Jungle can help there. 

Your Club’s Online Store At Member Jungle

Being able to sell your club's products, accessories, and merchandise online is incredibly beneficial. It provides an additional revenue stream and enables you to promote and sell items to your members in new ways. You can not only allow your members to buy from you via the website and app, but it streamlines the tracking of stock, makes creating one-off orders easier, is all exportable for tax time and can even be used to accept digital payments at in-person events without having to bother with a POS system. 

For more about the online store in general have a peep at, Why Your Club Needs An Online Store.

For more about it on the app, check out Your Club’s Product Store Is Now On The Mobile App.

While they aren’t directly related to the store, now is as good a time as any to share a few links to related topics, including Stripe payment gateways, Afterpay integration and what to do if someone claims that a payment they made to your club was fraudulent.  

Also, one of these articles features a photo of Faf De Klerk and his majestic hair. Which one is it? You’ll have to read them to find out. In the meantime, here he is, meeting Prince Harry while wearing a pair of South African flag budgie smugglers. 

 

Faf De Klerk meeting Prince Harry

 

Digital Membership Cards At Member Jungle

Digital membership cards are great for both clubs and members. Clubs can benefit from reduced costs, streamlined management, and improved engagement. Meanwhile, members can enjoy the convenience of accessing their information on any device, contactless check-in, enhanced security, a less cluttered wallet, and the peace of mind knowing they can't lose their cards. 

Furthermore, digital cards are much more environmentally friendly than traditional plastic cards, which, like it or not, we have to take into account these days. 

For an overview of digital membership cards, check out Does My Club Need Digital Membership Cards?

I’m not even going to tell you what this next one is about because when I wrote it, I apparently gave it the longest and most descriptive name ever. Membership Cards To Digital Membership Cards - How To Transition Your Club From Plastic Cards To Digital Ones. See, that title is basically a Tolkien novel on its own. 

For more on how digital membership cards can work alongside POS systems, read Digital Membership Cards, POS Systems and Your Licensed Club. 

Your Club’s Email Campaigns At Member Jungle

Email campaigns are a great way to keep in touch with your members, update them on upcoming events, and persuade potential new members to join. You can add an email campaign widget to your website to show your past emails and keep visitors informed about your club's activities. You can also encourage site visitors to subscribe to regular newsletters and updates. By collecting contact information from non-members who are interested in your club, you can stay in touch with these subscribers and increase the chances of turning them into new members.

For some tips on making sure members are getting your emails, read Email Delivery Best Practice.

For a look at how you can customise your club’s emails see How To Customise Email And Newsletter Templates With Member Jungle. 

For some info about club newsletters, check out 5 Steps To Write A Club Newsletter Your Members Will Love To Read.

Your Club’s Document / Resource Library At Member Jungle

The Document Library is a very useful asset that can make organising and providing extra quality to your members easier than ever before. You can use it to store and access images, documents, meeting notes, and pretty much anything else of importance that you want to share with your members.  

For more information, check out How to Get the Most Out Of Your Document Library.

Not only will reading that article tell you about how to utilise the Document Library, but it also contains several photos of what this sheep looks like when it grows up. It isn’t what you’d expect. 

 

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It makes sense in context. 

Your Club’s Blogs At Member Jungle

Okay, so I know that a lot of people don’t see the value in writing blogs for your club and leave the Blog Module untouched. As a writer with a typically fragile ego, it’s hard not to take that a little personally. 

 

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Nonetheless, just because you don’t want to write blogs doesn’t mean the whole module needs to be ignored; there is a whole lot you can do with the Blog Module beyond writing blogs. 

You can also use the blog module to touch base with your members after an event finishes by writing a summary of how the event went or the outcome of something that happened during the event. You can also allow members to comment on your blog posts to help encourage better communication.

You can create news and blogs in advance and schedule them to be published in the future. This ensures that fresh content is always added. Regular content updates will also help your club rank higher in search engine results and make sure that Google keeps indexing your site. 

For more on this, check out The Best Ways To Use Your Blog Module For Things That Aren’t Blogs.

In the above article, I mentioned you can turn your Blog Module into a Classifieds section for your club; for more details on how to do that, check out How To Turn Your Blog Module Into A Classifieds Section For Your Club.

Plus, you can do all of the above blog-related activities from the mobile app: Blogging on the Go: Post Blogs From Your Phone.

Promoting Club Sponsors With Member Jungle

One great benefit of Member Jungle is that it gives you a whole bunch of new ways that you can promote your sponsors in order to earn some extra money for your club. This includes banner ads, sponsored content, business directory listings, and so much more. 

Take a look at the two articles below to find out more about how to get, keep, and promote club sponsors with Member Jungle.

While it covers a bit more than just sponsor promotion, it is definitely worth checking out How You Can Make Money With Member Jungle if this topic interests you. 

Your Club’s Business Directory At Member Jungle

Speaking of the business directory, the business directory, while being a great way to promote your club’s sponsors, can also do a lot of other really great things for your club and be a really important asset. 

You guessed it if you want to know more, read The Best Ways To Use The Business Directory Module. 

Your Club’s CPD & Event Certificates At Member Jungle

Tracking continued professional development points is certainly not something that every club or association needs to do, but for those who do, it is an important and often time-consuming task. Predictably, it is also something that the Member Jungle system can help out with and make easier. 

It does this through its CPD & Event Certificates Module, which goes a long way in making the tracking of CPD easier for members and much less time-consuming for admins. As you may or may not know, Event Certificates are available as part of the CPD Module or on their own, and while CPD might be something that is primarily for associations, event certificates are definitely something the average club can take advantage of. 

To find out more about either, see: 

Your Club’s Group/Family Memberships With Member Jungle

Member Jungle provides family and group memberships, allowing one main member to oversee multiple secondary members within a single account. This simplifies administration, provides cost-effective options, and enhances engagement for all members. Family memberships are designed for households, while group memberships are suitable for businesses or organisations with shared affiliations. Secondary members have their own logins, so they can still buy event tickets, purchase merch and generally stay active in your club. 

For some information on family membership, go see What Are Family Memberships & How Can They Help Your Club?

For more information on corporate memberships How To Make Extra Money With Corporate Memberships.

Your Club’s Position Vacant Module With Member Jungle

The Position Vacant Module is a smaller, often overlooked system that could be very helpful if used properly. 

The Positions Vacant Module is a great way to leverage your position in your field to make some extra money by helping businesses in your field find new employees. For more about what that means in reality, see How Your Association Can Make Money By Using The Position Vacant Module. 

How You Can Use AI To Benefit Your Club

Artificial intelligence will only become increasingly important as time passes, and your ability to use it will only become more crucial to your club's success. This year, Member Jungle rolled out its first AI integration, JungleVison AI, the AI image generator, and chances are it won’t be the last time AI is integrated into the Member Jungle system. Staying on top of this emerging technology will serve you and your club very well in the long run.

So, in order to help you with this, let me list all of the articles I have written about using AI to help your club. Remember to bookmark this article and check back to this list because I'll be writing new articles on using AI to help manage your club soon.

Here are all the AI articles from newest to oldest: 

Please note that even the oldest of these articles is barely a year old, still contains a whole lot of very useful information and is absolutely worth reading. I only mention the age of these articles because AI is developing so fast that some of the examples generated in older articles won’t be up to the level of today's AI-generated content 

Member Jungle Support 

As I’m sure you know, Member Jungle also offers extensive support and training if you ever have trouble with your system. 

There’s an ever-growing library of: 

Plus, we offer a wide range of online support to ensure you are always comfortable and on top of whatever you’re doing with your system. For more information on how support works, please see The 3 Ways You Can Get Customer Support From Member Jungle.

Bookmark This Article

If you’ve found this article useful, bookmark it and check back on it regularly. I will add new articles here about how to get the most out of various parts of the Member Jungle system when I write them. 

They may be new versions of previous articles or brand-new articles covering entirely new topics. Either way, consider this your home base for using Member Jungle better and getting more bang for your buck. 

Good luck, and have fun using your system to its fullest potential. 

 

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