Membership Dashboards:

Engagement, Spending and Your Audience

Crystal Roberts, Deputy Executive DirectorInternational Association of Plastics Distribution

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Methodology

Step 1: Identify what to track

Step 2: Identify engagement and

spending

Step 3: Data inventory

Step 4: Development

process

Step 5: Considerations

Step 6: Communications

Step 7: Maintenance

The Ugly Spreadsheet

Discoveries During Development• Needed at least three years of data capture to

show trends• Addition of “deltas” – variance from one year

to the next• Chose to evenly weight spending and

engagement

How IAPD Uses It

• Resource allocation• “Mythbust” common assumptions

about the association• Retain and recruit members

Mythbusting• Example #1: Manufacturers fund the

vast majority of IAPD

Mythbusted• The dashboard showed that spending

by manufacturers is nearly equal to that by all other IAPD member categories

53%ManufacturersResin Manufacturers

47%All other categories

Mythbusting• Example #2: IAPD caters only to big

distributors

Mythbusted• The majority of IAPD programs and

services apply to all member categories. Ten offerings were developed to serve small distributors.

All Membership Categories

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Small, Mid, & Large Distribu-

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All Membership Categories Mi-nus Distributors

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Mythbusting• Example #3: Only the biggest

companies can make an impact or score the highest

Mythbusted• Of the 83 A and B companies, 65%

have less than $50 million in billing

65%< $50 MM

35%> $50 MM

Results of Soft Rollout

• Membership dashboard presented to leadership in April; since then:

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Next Steps for IAPD

• Analyze how member companies manage their IAPD budgets

• Analyze reasons for lack of engagement in products/services

• Individual profiles being sent to each member• Rollout the rankings to full membership

Your Turn

• Use these tools for guidance in creating your own membership dashboard

• Tips– Professional associations: Rather than track

individual members, track membership categories– Trade associations: Track each member company

and analyze by membership category, size or market segment

Contact us

Crystal Roberts, M.B.A.Deputy Executive DirectorInternational Association of Plastics Distributionwww.iapd.org croberts@iapd.org(913) 345-1005