How a strategic partnership helped member engagement and drove £4m of sales enquiries for member companies of a trade association.
Trade associations play a pivotal role in empowering their members to drive business growth by offering a suite of strategic resources and opportunities. By facilitating robust networking platforms, associations enable members to forge valuable connections and partnerships, expanding their reach and influence within the industry. By leveraging these collective efforts, associations help their members not only survive but thrive, fostering a vibrant and dynamic professional community.
Join Rennie Schafer from the UK Self Storage Association, one of the leading heads of an association in the UK, and Laura Moxham from Your Business Angels (YBA) for an insightful seminar on the transformative power of strategic partnerships to significantly enhance your association's value proposition and support members' business growth.
Discover how SSA UK leveraged YBA's digital marketing expertise to increase attendance at association events, provide relevant content for the association magazine and webinars and generate more direct income for some of their members (such as 15,000 sales inquiries, 75,000 website visits, and £4 million in revenue for members over 12 months) — all at no additional cost to the UK SSA.
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Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights and strategies that can significantly enhance your association's value proposition and support your members' business growth.
Managing Director, Your Business Angels
Laura is currently a Managing Director & Google Ads Strategist at YBA PPC (Your Business Angels UK). Laura brings experience from previous roles at YUnique Marketing Limited, Tech Angels UK, T-Mobile and Adecco UK. She holds a 1995 - 1998 BA Hons in Leisure Studies at Leeds Beckett University. With a robust skill set that includes Google Adwords, Google Adwords Professional, Strategy, Online Marketing, Public Relations and more.
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Chief Executive Officer, Self Storage Association
Rennie has been in association management for most of his working life, starting with the Australian Meat Industry Council in 1998. He has been at CEO level of industry associations for 21 years and is currently the CEO of the Federation of European Self Storage Associations which he more than tripled in turnover over the past 5 years. He is also the CEO of the Self Storage Association UK, building it to be the second largest association in this sector in the world. Rennie has worked with a range of associations in 3 continents, often assisting them in developing their strategic direction. He has also been a board member of several charitable organisations, mostly in the early childhood education sector. He has an MBA from Deakin University and is a member of the Oxford University High Performance Leadership Programme.