{"id":3224,"date":"2014-09-16T12:50:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T16:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/?p=3224"},"modified":"2018-02-27T21:11:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T21:11:59","slug":"well-really-know-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/well-really-know-members\/","title":{"rendered":"How Well Do You Really Know Your Members?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3225\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3225\" style=\"width: 105px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Sharon-Kneebone-thumbnail.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naylor.com\/associationadviser\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/Sharon-Kneebone-thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Sharon Kneebone, Institute of Food Technology\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Kneebone, Institute of Food Technology<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><span lang=\"EN\">For 75 years, the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ift.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span lang=\"EN\">Institute of Food Technologists<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"EN\">\u00a0(IFT) has been unlocking the potential of the food science community and transforming scientific knowledge into innovative solutions throughout the global food system. Now IFT is using some of the same qualitative and quantitative techniques to deepen its engagement with members who reside in more than 100 countries.\u00a0<\/span>Sharon Kneebone, director of membership, takes us inside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.naylornetwork.com\/NAY-ADVISER\/assets\/tweetables.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<table style=\"color: #444444;\" cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"3\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li>What members tell you in surveys is not always what they believe (or how they behave online).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Associations must find ways to engage members\u2013an unengaged member is half-way out the door.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Research shows that member needs haven\u2019t changed that much. What has changed dramatically is how we deliver on those needs.<\/li>\n<li>Have a catalog of different member personas on video. Site visitors can find a member who looks, acts and thinks just like they do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Association Adviser:\u00a0<\/span>Sharon, what are your biggest membership development challenges?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sharon Kneebone:<\/span>\u00a0With so many mergers and acquisitions [in our industry], our potential pool of members is shrinking. Also, we found that after graduation, student members often go to work for big companies that won\u2019t subsidize their IFT dues. We found a big gap there, and we are aggressively revising our pricing to fix that.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">AA:<\/span>\u00a0How about the engagement level of your members?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SK:<\/span>\u00a0The pre-recession workforce levels haven\u2019t come back. So people [with jobs] are still working at these incredibly intense levels. They\u2019re not given enough time to volunteer and participate in the many different ways you can engage with an association, [such as] volunteering as a local, regional or global leader, attending a meeting face to face or even doing asynchronous learning online. There\u2019s not enough time at the office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">And due to intensity of their work, they may not want to do it on their own time either. It makes it hard for members to be engaged and an unengaged member is a member halfway out the door.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">AA:\u00a0<\/span>So, how are you addressing those challenges?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SK:\u00a0<\/span>One of the first things we did was unify the membership. We have 53 geographic sections located throughout the world\u2014originally you could belong to your section and not IFT. Now when you join, you get your global affiliation as well your local. That will ensure stronger touch points with the IFT brand, and we\u2019re creating other places to be what I call &#8220;sticky,&#8221; such as new online communities for non-members.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">AA:<\/span>\u00a0As a membership director, what\u2019s one of the toughest aspects of your job?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SK:<\/span>\u00a0Integrating all of our data. Our member data is in three different buckets: AMS, attendee information and our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ift.org\/community.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">community<\/a>\u00a0at IFT.org. Not everybody wants to engage in the same way. Not everyone wants to read our monthly publication. That doesn\u2019t show up on data that they\u2019ve picked it up and read it. Some people want to have a local professional network, so they\u2019re going to want the local section. Some people want to volunteer on a big scale. What we\u2019re really trying to do is better understand behaviors and how can we get people involved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">AA:<\/span>\u00a0Can you tell us about tools and technologies that you\u2019re using to help you capture that information?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SK:\u00a0<\/span>We\u2019re in the process of integrating\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">all<\/span>\u00a0of our member data, including the 25 percent we never knew about. They\u2019re potential members even if they don\u2019t renew. They\u2019re still people we can be in touch with. We have a private community that\u2019s behind the firewall, and we\u2019ve just launched a new one with a new platform. Rather than strictly member-only, it will be partially open-access. The idea is that people will be friends of IFT and if they want to engage and have their conversations around us, they can. They\u2019ll be limited in how they can participate, and what they can see, but we\u2019ll be engaging a broader community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">AA:<\/span>\u00a0Is video a component of that strategy?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SK:<\/span>\u00a0We do use a lot of video. We\u2019re in the process of revamping all of our membership pages and making the website more mobile friendly. The overall focus will be on the &#8220;hero story&#8221;\u2014member testimonials\u2014on video. We\u2019re looking at our different member personas. We have a catalog of videos so [members] can see someone who reminds them of themselves. If I\u2019m a student or if I\u2019m a professional, I can click on a video and see someone who looks like me, acts like me and thinks like me telling their story about why they are a member.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">For example, we have a student member from the Middle Eastern Technical University in Turkey telling her story. There\u2019s a member from Brazil telling her story. We have an academic member who fits the classic boomer profile, and we have a new professional [member] story. We\u2019re going to use the video transcripts to identify written testimonials and pictures for our collateral pieces, so we have a comprehensive look and feel to the story we\u2019re telling about IFT membership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">AA:\u00a0<\/span>How important is professional development for your organization?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SK:<\/span>\u00a0Professional development\/advancing one\u2019s career is the No.1 reason that IFT members join. We don\u2019t treat our job board as a job board; we treat it as a career suite. Our overall strategy is to be\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">the<\/span>premier choice for HR professionals to recruit and retain the top talent. We don\u2019t want them to think about us only when they\u2019re ready to post a job; we want them to think of us in terms of professional development [for their employees].<\/p>\n<p>Using a plug-in career center solution like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxwoodtech.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boxwood<\/a>\u00a0is good for us since we don\u2019t have to worry about maintaining the technology. We can focus more of our efforts on the marketing of the tools and the services that we provide, as well as listening to what our members and employers need.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">AA:<\/span>\u00a0What are the growth prospects for your industry?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SK:<\/span>\u00a0We are predicting a shortage of food scientists looking forward as boomers start retiring. Boomers are not as inclined to train their successors as other generations are. And because of mergers, acquisitions and the globalization of the food web, we don\u2019t know yet exactly what that gap is going to be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">Food science is an applied profession. People can come in from microbiology, engineering, chemistry and other areas. But food science as a discipline is applied and you need different aspects of it in order to succeed. [Employers] can go to a bigger job board and probably get something cheaper, but you\u2019re not going to get the quality of candidates you can get through the IFT job board.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">AA:\u00a0<\/span>Can you tell us about some of the skill gaps you\u2019re seeing?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SK:<\/span>\u00a0We\u2019re seeing that scientists are very well trained to solve a scientific problem, but they\u2019re not well trained in business. We\u2019re seeing that ideas for new products may be led by marketing, not by R&amp;D. Marketing better understands how to project-manage and how to bring disparate groups together. So by filling the gap in what we call &#8220;soft skills&#8221; and business skills, it makes our R&amp;D scientists more attractive as team leaders and better able to function &#8220;cross-discipline&#8221; across the organization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">AA:<\/span>\u00a0How is IFT helping employers and members as training needs evolve?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SK:<\/span>\u00a0We just launched a new credential, Certified Food Scientist. So you have to do a job analysis of what that professional looks like. Working with our academic community, one of the things that\u2019s came across loud and clear was the need to bring industry, academia and government together to determine if students we\u2019re sending out into the workforce have the right skill sets. Professional members [also help us]. After five years in the business, they\u2019ll tell us: &#8220;This is what I wish I knew then that I know now.&#8221; For example, our No.1 webinar was &#8220;How to Survive Office Politics.&#8221; It\u2019s a qualitative process now, but we\u2019ll be moving more toward a quantitative process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">AA:<\/span>\u00a0We take it that IFT is a data-driven organization?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SK:<\/span>\u00a0Actually, data doesn\u2019t tell the whole story. You have to create the right opportunity at the right time for each member. For instance, your data may show that a particular member only reads the magazine [and nothing else], but they could still be very engaged in what the industry is doing and they could still care a lot about the industry. On the other hand, your data could show that you have a member who reads everything you publish and send out. But, if your association never sees a transaction from that member are they really engaged?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">Also, you\u2019ve got to mix qualitative responses with your quantitative data. Your data might show that a member is &#8220;slightly more satisfied&#8221; than average with your annual meeting, but the qualitative feedback is, &#8220;Your meetings are too academic for me.&#8221; Big difference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">AA:<\/span>\u00a0What kind of impact has that had on your membership value proposition?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">SK:\u00a0<\/span>We\u2019re actually rethinking our membership model. What we know from ASAE research is that member needs haven\u2019t changed. What\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">has<\/span>\u00a0changed dramatically is how we deliver on those needs. Our past offering has always been: &#8220;You pay this price and you get these services&#8221; and there is no deviation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">But in a world of mass customization, our members don\u2019t want that. They want what they want, and we need to determine what the best way is for IFT to do that. So we started with the member study. We\u2019re also doing a pricing study with a conjoint [stated preference] analysis to determine what the high-end and low-end is and where we think our members will engage with us and what do they want from us. For instance, how much will they pay for an online-only membership?<\/p>\n<p>Again, the No. 1 reason that people join associations is to advance their careers. The second reason is to build a professional network and third is to build on professional knowledge. That flip flops when they renew. I believe that associations are in THE best position to offer a career center because we should own the profession in that space. If we understand the profession and our members, we should be able to provide the tools they need to advance their careers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reader Note: For more insights on knowing your members and satisfying their needs, watch Sharon&#8217;s interview in this month&#8217;s episode of Association Adviser TV: <a href=\"http:\/\/tv.associationadviser.com\/give-your-members-what-they-want-3-tips-to-increase-member-satisfaction target=\"> Give your Members What They Want: 3 Tips to Increase Member Satisfaction<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 75 years, the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) has been unlocking the potential of the food science community and transforming scientific knowledge into innovative solutions throughout the global food system. 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