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Membership Marketing Challenges: Is an Agency Right for Your Club?

The marketing world has changed dramatically over the last 12 years. A digital transformation has...

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Why Closed-Loop Marketing is Essential to Your Success

We live in a data-driven world. Most marketers today could tell you which website pages get the...

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How Private Clubs Can Leverage Content Marketing in a COVID-19 World

Over the many months to come, private clubs are going to need to rely on adaptive digital...

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What Your Social Media Recruitment is Missing

With a novel cocktail of public health concern and economic uncertainty, recruiting during COVID-19...

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[Webinar] Supercharge Your Salesmanship with Sales Enablement

In addition to selling new memberships, the Membership Director often has a variety of other...

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Build Buyer Trust with Content Marketing for Golf Course Real Estate

Minnesotans know that once the first novelty snowfall of the season appears, that white stuff may...

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Why Blogging is a Must-Do for Clubs [WEBINAR]

What is a blog? For years, blogs (short for weblog) served as online journals for aspiring writers...

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Continuing Education: Marketing Certifications and Resources for 2020

I saw a great SEO presentation in Boston a couple years ago that really left a lasting impression....

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Double Your Online Leads Without Re-designing Your Website [WEBINAR]

Private Club Website Challenges If you’re among the few private clubs today who have a waiting list...

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Understanding the Rules Around 501(c)(7) Marketing

It’s 2020, the beginning of a new decade. It’s a time for new ideas, new conversations in...

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Give Your Membership Marketing a Boost in 2020 with These 6 Tactics

A new year is upon us, which means it’s time for New Year’s Resolutions. But I’m not talking about...

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What Club Marketers Should Know About Neuromarketing and New Members [Ep. 26]

Using your brain requires energy, which is why you’re exhausted after a hard day of thinking...

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5 Customer Acquisition Tactics Every Business Should be Using

Customer acquisition can be tricky work. Outbound sales tactics are often outdated and end up...

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Getting Private Club Board Buy-In [WEBINAR]

In this month’s Crushing Club Academy webinar series, Valley Country Club’s membership director,...

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[Case Study] Barton Hills 90-Day Membership Push

Barton Hills is an upscale country club in Ann Arbor, Michigan with a prestigious Donald...

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Drive Club Membership: 3 Lead Generation Strategies for Your Website

Private clubs pride themselves on being the best when it comes to customer service and community....

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How to Turn Club Marketing Data into Members

Let’s agree on a few things as it relates to the way we connect as people. We have become a very...

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Reaching the Millennial Member for Private Clubs [WEBINAR]

This lesson on Reaching the Millennial Member for Private Clubs from the Crushing Club Marketing...

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Beyond Member Referrals: Modern Buyer Behavior [Webinar]

This lesson on Modern Buyer Behavior for Private Clubs from the Crushing Club Marketing Academy is...

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Going Beyond Engagement: Using Social Media to Recruit the Right Members for Your Club

Social media has long been touted as the golden goose of the marketing world. With the right...

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Attending HubSpot's INBOUND 2019? Here's How to Get the Most Out of It

HubSpot’s INBOUND 2018 Conference has come and gone, but if you are looking for highlights, check...

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Does Your Membership Director Have the Right Tools and Skills?

This blog was updated for relevance and accuracy on February 11, 2025.

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Modernizing Membership Marketing Begins in the Boardroom

From coast to coast, there is fantastic momentum sweeping across the private club industry....

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Adding "Traction" and Structure for Private Club Management [Ep. 25]

Running a multi-million dollar enterprise is serious business and private club managers know it’s...

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The Beginner's Guide to Digital Marketing Analytics

Throughout the 20th Century, one of the biggest problems with marketing was that it was difficult...

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Turning Your Club Communications into a Member Engagement Asset [Ep. 24]

For many club communicators, newsletters and member emails are a necessary evil. Hours are spent...

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Innovation With Club Marketing Starts With Technology and Data

Having just attended the #CMAA19 World Conference in Nashville, I was not surprised to hear a few...

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Talking Twitter with Hazeltine Superintendent [Ep. 23]

Getting your club to buy into the idea of social media and starting a Facebook or Twitter account...

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Should I Show Pricing on My Club Website?

I did a little experiment recently. I wanted to know what people are Googling when looking into...

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Storytelling for Clubs: How to Share Your Club's Undiscovered Stories

More now than ever, we are spending a lot of time on our digital devices, which means – so are your...

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