Member Jungle Membership Software Blog
As an association, you provide your members with a variety of benefits. These might include professional development opportunities such as training and certification programs and facilitating networking through events and local chapters. You might also advocate for your members' interests with government bodies, keep
... moreLife is full of surprises. Sometimes, these are good surprises; sometimes, they are bad surprises, and sometimes, they are just strange surprises. For example, this is a real photo; it hasn’t been photoshopped or made with AI.
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I don’t know about you, but to me, Annual General Meetings (AGMs) feel like the sort of thing that big businesses and publicly traded companies should be doing rather than something clubs do. My feeling this way probably wasn’t helped by the fact that in my research for this article, I saw one AGM template that
... moreWe're based in South Australia on the York Peninsula, so a real country farming area and yeah, we've got members sort of the West Coast of SA, people in Victoria that have Holiday Homes over here, so yeah our members are widespread.
I'm the Treasurer and Secretary, so of course, I immediately looked for a system that
... moreWhen I first heard the term member churn, I pictured a giant butter churn, churning up a whole bunch of club members into whatever you make out of churned-up people; people butter? Anyway, it turns out that's not what member churn means. I know, who would have guessed?
Member Churn or Membership Churn
... moreCommittees are awesome. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it. They are an effective and fair way to organise anything. I know some people are unfairly critical of committees. There’s even the saying, “A camel is a horse designed by a committee,” which is supposed to mean that committees are bad and
... moreAt Member Jungle, we often hear common concerns regarding the images clubs and associations use on their websites. They want to know why their images are blurry, cropped strangely, have incorrect aspect ratios, or simply take a long time to load. The almost universal answer is that they have uploaded the images in the wrong
... moreServing on a club's committee can be intimidating. With extra work, responsibilities, and more to juggle, it's no surprise that people aren't eager to fill those roles. Don't worry; this isn't a negative reflection on you or your club; it's just a normal hesitancy
... moreThere is something nice about getting an official certificate after you’ve completed something. When I finished university, I was genuinely very happy when that $30,000 piece of paper arrived in the mail. It didn’t matter that I already had the qualifications regardless of whether they ever sent that paper, I was still incredibly happy
... moreIt’s no secret that things are tough at the moment. Inflation keeps increasing, and household budgets keep getting leaner. Things are getting so tough that the last time Scrooge McDuck tried to jump into his money bin, he died.
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