"Our online community is the heart of our association, so web site improvements are a key means of enhancing our member service. TMA Resources and Higher Logic integrated seamlessly to bring our members the best solution for peer-to-peer communication—which is consistently rated our number one member benefit."
“One of my goals is to expand our audience and bring more traffic to our website, and the community is a really critical tool in helping us do that, in a way that no amount of marketing can do.”
"We’re very satisfied with our new community. It saves our staff and our members’ time. They appreciate the new functionality and are taking advantage of our services more."
"Having the ability to sit down and plan over a day or two allowed us to think globally as opposed to just the current month. This made a world of difference.”
“We would like to continue using this approach because it allows us to promote all our courses without flooding our members’ inboxes. Targeted subject lines and standalone emails work. Spending the extra time to brainstorm with other members of your team, figuring out what we want to say, different subject lines to use, etc. is very helpful and beneficial.”
"Marketing automation allows us to personalize emails and give subscribers what they want.”
"Marketing automation gives us the opportunity to create a more thoughtful and effective process.”
“Marketing automation has completely changed the way we communicate with our audience and has revitalized our marketing and communications strategy."
"We wanted to move toward a more targeted approach with our marketing, therefore requiring data. Before moving to this marketing automation platform, our AMS and email solution were not integrated, making it a challenge to easily get the data we needed.”
“We needed an intranet that would do the typical heavy lifting – benefits information, leadership messaging – but also one that enabled conversations. However, with only a two-person team, we needed to choose a platform that wouldn’t require a large team to manage it.”
“Any time we mention a senior leader’s name, or they upload something to basecamp, our interaction numbers go sky-high! Our employees want to hear what leaders have to say, so we began a new “Friday Flash” initiative in 2018. Different members of the leadership team host a discussion with employees to garner feedback and chat about what’s going on in the industry, their careers, and even their personal hobbies."
“Basecamp is a good place to tie all of the Ascend Learning brands together. It’s easy to forget we work for a large international company sometimes."
“I like that it's a one-stop site for all of the information about what's going on around the company. Sometimes it's hard sifting through e-mails to find events or info, so having it archived in a convenient location is great."
"We see our online community as a critcal driver of membership and retenton. It should provide every opportunity for members to share, collaborate, mentor and learn. But with our existng platorm, several key features were not available or didn’t work properly, and getng support from Telligent was a nightmare."
“Our community manager has been an amazing fit for us and I definitely see us continuing with her for quite a while. We’re about to go into our cycle for next year and being able to have her be part of that will be important and make the community even better.”