
What You Will Learn
This live Membership Growth Certificate Course explores the interconnected strategies and tools to grow association membership, including developing relevant benefit offerings, establishing and enforcing positive member content gates, and evolving membership recruitment and retention campaigns. Classes include practical evaluation of typical membership collateral.
The live classes encourage live discussion and debate among the teacher and students. Some classes will feature an association industry guest lecturer. Students earn 1 CAE credit for each live class they attend.










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Is This Course
Right For You?
If your association membership growth is in decline, if your members are not regularly renewing membership, or if you want to grow membership by attracting a new segment, this course is right for you. Lessons are designed for association professionals responsible for serving their member needs.

Membership Leaders
Membership staff tasked with maintaining a fundamentally-strong membership strategy.

Marketing Leaders
Marketing staff that builds campaigns with relevant benefits to attract and retain members.

IT Leaders
Technology staff that must align the tech stack and future roadmap against membership strategies.
About the Instructor
Chris Gloede is the Chief Consultant for Ricochet and past Chief Marketing Officer of the American Bar Association.
As the CMO for the American Bar Association, he was accountable for over $80 million in revenue and a 100-person marketing team that promoted membership, publication, and education products.
Chris led a digital transformation that introduced marketing automation, business intelligence, paid media, and marketing skill development initiatives–the very strategies that he teaches in this course.

Enjoy Now!
Limited class size.
- 10 live online weekly classes, recorded for on-demand use
- 10 CAE credits
- Private networking LinkedIn Group access
- Badge for LinkedIn profile and email signature
- Printable certificate suitable for framing
- Discount on Higher Logic Thrive Platform (conditions apply)