Imagine for a second that your association helps its members through a marketing directory which serves as an accelerator for business expansion, secure lead collection and member status verification.
Consider how simple it will be to increase the value of membership in your association by marketing your members through an effective professional directory on your association website. A marketing engine which streamlines the search for professionals and gives your association and its board members clear reporting on the success of its directory.
Visitors benefit by being shown relevant, expert recommendations, or by using the intuitive search capabilities to find exactly what they want. They can refine the search criteria in any way that matches their goals and immediately connect with the professional of their choice through a secure portal.
Members reap the benefits of your associations' marketing and only need to respond to leads automatically provided to them. Through the Member Portal, your members may make any changes to their directory profiles at any moment.
Your association benefits by increasing value of your membership by ensuring your association makes life easier for its members and is seen as a leading trusted authority for visitors.
Think of the professional directory as a handy tool which helps connect visitors to your members by enabling them to securely search parts of your member data and then initiate contact with the professional of their choice or validate a members' status and credentials.
Contact us today for an obligation-free discussion and learn more about how how Members Village may help increase the value of your membership.
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Help your Members Get Found
Members deserve access to services which help in expanding their business. When we enable our professional directory within your association's website, it will become the go-to resource for anyone looking for the services your members offer or to verify a member's compliance or certification.
Your members will automatically receive more marketing opportunities and sales leads in their inbox without having to lift a finger.
Save Time and Money
Your association can do a lot with very little! Once configured, the professional directory becomes fully automated requiring zero of your time.
Best practices will be provided to your association staff which they can then share with your members to provide a rewarding experience.
Professional Directory Benefits For Your Association
Provide your members with a marketing and verification portal and visitors with an intuitive and simple experience to connect with your members. Benefits your association will get out-of-the-box include:
Automated Marketing
Once configured the professional directory takes care of all function automatically and follows best practices of Google for indexation purposes.
Flexible
Our marketing directory support your association's business requirements, you are in full control of what the directory accesses and displays.
Business Leads
Your members will receive leads looking for their services right in their inbox.
Spam Protection
All leads are automatically scanned using our multi point scoring system and spam is automatically removed.
Verification
Use the professional directory to enable visitors to verify a members status and certifications.
Business Intelligence
Gain valuable insights on the performance of your member directory.
Secure and privacy legislation compliant
Trust that your member data will remain secure, in compliance with PIPEDA and CASL. The directory will only share what your association wishes to share.
Easily! Once configured the member directory will ensure that visitors can search and find members who meet your business criteria, such as showing their basic profile, credentials or certifications. Once found, only the data you wish to display will show, ensuring your associations data isn't compromised.
You bet! All the data coming out of your member directory will be easily access by search engines such as Google, and where appropriate, we make use of rich snippets to enhance the digestion of your data.
With privacy and security in mind, your member directory can be locked down and made available for members only. Should this requirement change in the future it can then be made public, or vice versa.
Your association will dictate whether directory details are fully automated or whether your members can control what gets displayed. All these decisions are made during the initial configuration and our experts will walk you through the benefits of each.