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Web Content Management. Collaborative Creation of Website Content. Spread the work by allowing all of your officers to contribute to building and maintaining your website's content. Supports multiple writers and editors; divide writing and editing duties as you see fit. No prior knowledge of html is required to write or edit articles. Most basic html tags are supported and can be added to a page at the click of a button. For more web-savvy users, html can be edited within an article.

Email Marketing Management allows users to create professional-looking email marketing messages in 30 seconds.

Multiple types of content. Three major channels for creating content: 1. Organization-created content (event articles, news articles, job listings, photo albums, etc.) 2. Offline content, such as marketing messages emailed to your users. 3. User-generated content, including discussion forums and member directories fed by user profiles.

External Content Aggregation uses RSS feeds to push constantly updated news out to your users. Sophisticated XML integration capabilities and podcasting/multimedia services make it easy to get the information out to your users that they want to have, when they want to have it.

Reuse content. Once you've written an article, use it again as a template for a new article. Use the content as the foundation for email communication to your users-no extra time or work needs to be done once you've created the original article.

Content can be restricted based on membership status or group affiliation. A powerful option for each individual content article that allows you to permit only certain members or users access to certain articles.

Sophisticated photo support. Photos make a website feel fresh. Almanet supports photos and thumbnail photos across the website. Photo albums connect your users with your events and organization in a powerful way.

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Online Self-Serve Event Ticket Sales enable you to process as many ticket orders as your venue can handle. Fast, easy, and with no hidden charges. Set maximum registrations on a per user basis, a per ticket basis, and a per event basis.

SmartRSVP™ Technology. Realtime Event Administration Dashboard allow you to sit back and watch registrations come in, once you have set up an event and its ticketing options. Reporting is per-event, per-ticket type, and per-day. Event reports show summary lists of upcoming and past events along with up-to-the-minute RSVP totals. A list of attendees on-screen and the ability to export a more detailed, extended list to Excel. Drill-down views of each event also show sign-ups over time, how many of each ticket you have sold, and total event revenues. The ability to ask survey questions of each person RSVP'ed (ex.: What would you prefer for dinner--chicken, beef, fish, or vegetarian? Do you have a question for our speaker?)

With Online/Offline Event Promotion Tools you can promote your events using Almanet's content management module. Enable all your team members to create content, and leverage all of your organization's expertise and knowledge. Use the content you have generated to create compelling html-based e-mail event notices-fast and easy.

Multi-level ticket-pricing allow you to give event discounts based on membership status. Offer members special access to early registration for events.

Event discounts tied to membership status. One of the biggest incentives associations offer their members to join is member discounts to events or access to members-only events. Almanet's Event Management module and Membership Management module are tightly integrated to support member discounts and members-only registration for events. One customer study showed that the reason for one-third of their member sign-ups and renewals was specifically to get a discount to an event.

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Online membership registration and membership renewal; Automatic member renewal notices. Organizations using Almanet regularly see a 33-75% increase in paid membership in just the first 6-12 months of being on the platform. Members sign up for membership online and renew online, whenever it's convenient for them, 24x7. Customized membership renewal notices are automatically sent out to your members. This translates directly into more membership revenues and support for your organization. Members perceive more value in your organization once it's running on the Almanet platform, and they'll show that support through paid memberships. It's that simple.

Realtime membership reports and membership tracking allow you to see up-to-the-minute reports on your membership. Total members. Expired memberships. Month-by-month membership breakdowns. Profile update summaries. Information dashboards that give you the right information at the right time.

Multi-level, multi-year membership renewal options give your members options for membership types and membership durations. Give them discounts for making longer-term commitments to your organization. It makes a difference. Some of our customers see as many as one-third of their members voluntarily choosing to purchase multi-year memberships.

Multi-pricing options based on renewal timing. Once an alum's membership has expired, it's more difficult to get them to renew. Why not give your members a discount to renew before their membership expires? Almanet's multi-pricing options allow you to do just that.

Supports both rolling and anniversary date memberships. Most of our customers choose to offer rolling memberships to their members, but there are some organizations that have anniversary date memberships. Almanet supports both.

Automatic or manual membership eligibility check. Almanet offers sophisticated and comprehensive tools that allow you to fine-tune the way in which you confirm a person is really eligible to purchase a membership. Make it fully automatic, fully manual, or anywhere in between. Your choice.

Event discounts tied to membership status. One of the biggest incentives associations offer their members to join is member discounts to events or access to members-only events. Almanet's Membership Management module and Event Management module are tightly integrated to support member discounts and members-only registration for events. One customer study showed that the reason for one-third of their member sign-ups and renewals was specifically to get a discount to an event.

Users update their own profiles online. Enable your users and members to update their own profiles online 24x7. Let your membership officers stop doing member updates and spend their time more productively on growing membership and coming up with new services and benefits to provide your members.

Users can reset their own passwords that are then e-mailed to them. A reset password is automatically e-mailed to a user within seconds of the reset.

Users control public visibility of profile info. Some of your members will want all of their contact and company information to appear in the directory. Other members will choose to only have the bare minimum show. Some will choose to not appear at all. The Membership Management module leaves it all up to their preference.

Export user data to XLS, CSV files. Admins can export all user data to Excel, Word, and CSV files.

Automatic scans to detect duplicate usernames. Creates a list of potentially duplicated user accounts and streamlines the cleanup process.

Create and manage offline benefits available only to paid members and subscribers. Special subscription rates to magazines and newspapers. Members-only discounts for local fitness clubs. Whatever special benefits you can negotiate for your members, Almanet enables you to make available as a members-only benefit. Yet one more benefit of being a member and one more reason to renew today.

Does it take more officer time and work behind the scenes to make all this happen? It takes less time and less work. Your officers will spend less time, and they'll get more done. Your officers are going to enjoy it more and feel like their efforts are more leveraged and getting more traction. Your users will appreciate the professional level of functionality you're now offering them . . . and they will show it through increased support.

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What really compels people to become members? 75% of your user base is composed of Pragmatics--people who will pay money to join your association and participate as members provided they are getting something in return. That something is Value.

You deliver value by delivering member benefits.

You deliver benefits to your members by giving them opportunities for business networking, social networking, and lifestyle enhancement; offering special member discounts on events; providing partial website access and functionality to everyone...but requiring membership to have full access to all the site has to offer; and giving your members vehicles for self-promotion.

Pile on enough of the right benefits and joining your organization and actively participating will quickly become a no-brainer for your users.

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One of the most important features of an association's online community is the member/user directory. There are two main ways in which members put it to use:
(1) to find someone and
(2) to allow themselves to be found. In the first case, you might be looking for contact info for a particular person you already know, or you might be looking for a list of people who meet certain criteria. In the second case, you want to make sure that other people are able to find you when you are the correct person for them to, say, fill an incredible job position in their company. Either way, Almanet's Online Directory ensures that your users can find and be found. It is one of the most important member benefits you can offer!

Customized search

Almanet's Customizable access allows administrators to choose whether all users or only paid members will have access to your online directory.

Customizable display enables users to select profile preferences to fine-tune exactly what--if any--information they want to show to other users via the directory.

Users update their own profile, contact, and display information and preferences. They also control exactly what pieces of their information they want to show to other directory users.

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Creating Interest Groups allows your members and you to leverage the full power of your members and the smaller, targeted networks that they can now create.

Ability to subdivide users into public, private, and hidden groups. Create "public" groups that any user or member can join; "private" groups where the administrator determines who can be a member; and "hidden" groups that are only for administrators or other selected people.

E-mail to specific groups to better focus your e-mail and communicate more effectively with only those people who should receive a message.

Discussion forums for networking and collaboration groups allow your members to create interest groups for golf enthusiasts, trail runners, skiiers, and/or whatever other groups they would like to set up.

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Selling event tickets and getting your users to join as dues-paying members is the financial lifeblood of your organization. Almanet's powerful eCommerce module makes it easy for you to do everything you need to sell event tickets, sign up members, renew members, and take donations.

Fully functional online store. A secure system that allows you to sell event tickets, manage membership, and take donations. Process real-time credit card transactions on your website. Develop and maintain your own tickets and pricing for events and memberships.

Affordable pricing structure. Inexpensive, flat rate pricing structure--we do not take a percentage out of any of your transactions.

Specialized eCommerce allows you to customize customer action paths by setting pre-purchase and post-purchase triggers and provides the ability to restrict users to preset numbers of tickets by ticket type.

eCommerce fully integrated with a user's membership status. Allows only current members to purchase tickets at member rates. If a non-member user wants to purchase a ticket with a member discount, they are prompted to first pay membership dues and join before being able to buy this ticket. One client study showed that 1/3 of all memberships happen in order to get a member discount at the point of event ticket purchase.

Membership benefits are immediately accessible after a user renews or signs up for membership.

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eNewsletter. Whether you're sending an e-mail event marketing note or a list of job postings, it's important to be able to quickly and easily set up the e-mail, determine who the recipients are, and then get the e-mail out to your recipients...whether you're talking hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of addressees.

Fast and easy setup Set up a simple eNewsletter in less than a minute. Modify and fine-tune the content and the look as much as you want...again, in only minutes. Send as many test messages as you'd like before you do the live send. Schedule your emails to be sent immediately or at a future date/time.

Professional-looking and as graphically intensive as you choose. Structured layouts give you a framework that lets you customize your eNewsletter to get exactly the right graphical look and content level.

Ability to set up as many custom distribution lists as you need. Allows you to set up user groups that can be used for distribution lists.

Previously sent messages serve as templates for future e-mails. Use previously sent messages as templates and make only those changes necessary, requiring as little as 60 seconds to prepare a new eNewsletter.

No html knowledge is necessary, but html support is still available for more advanced users.

Choose whether to send messages to all users or to restrict them to certain groups, giving you the flexibility and power to broadcast messages to everyone or fine-tune/focus to target groups.

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Whether your end-users and members need to update their profile information, renew a membership, change a RSVP, or get a new account password, isn't it easier to allow them to do it themselves?

Easier for them, and easier for you.

The admin time you used to spend on manually changing e-mail addresses, updating contact info, renewing memberships, or selling event tickets can now go directly to making a more active and compelling organization. The money you used to spend on this goes straight back to your bottom line...or it can allow you to offer more events at lower prices, which in turn will pull in even more active members.

It's a virtuous cycle that just keeps feeding on itself and making your organization more and more successful.

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Fully searchable database allows members to easily and quickly hone in on only the postings they are interested in.

Members can post resumes. It's not only important to be able to find the right jobs, it's also important for companies to be able to find you when you're the right person for the company.

Authenticated members can self-edit their postings/resumes. Members have full control over the content of their online resume and what information is visible to others.

Privacy protection for members posting resumes allows members to choose how much of their company information to make public and can mask portions of company information to provide themselves anonymity.