CAM Can Help: Warehouse Solutions

From order fulfillment to direct mail campaigns to trade show shipments, call CAM. Our warehouse processes more than 20,000 orders annually from single books to hundreds at a time. If you have as few as 300 pieces or more than 70,000 in one mailing, we can accommodate you.

CAM is headquartered in a three-story, 48,000 square foot facility where we offer everything — quality office space, conference rooms, and storage, with all of the accompanying services.

 

CAM has the capacity to manage inventory in a large, on-site warehouse, providing the ability to quickly turn around product orders. CAM is experienced in processing orders and payments, inventory tracking, and fulfillment.

For more information on how CAM can help you with your warehouse facility needs, contact Donna Halstead at Donna.Halstead@creativeassociation.com

How CAM Can Help

 

As the marketplace and technology evolves, your members/customers may request new products be developed from the same (or reduced) budgets. CAM understands your changing needs and can create a plan that provides the flexibility needed to run an association.  Take a look at just a few of the services CAM can provide.

 

Online Learning

Web based learning options have grown in popularity and are becoming the norm among many organizations. Including eLearning along with other education choices ensures that your program remains competitive and can reach the most people. CAM can develop eLearning solutions to help your organization achieve their educational objectives.

 

ePublishing

With CAM’s e-book expertise, your members and customers can experience convention programs, journals, magazines, and technical documents with links and videos directly embedded in this interactive format optimized for mobile and tablet devices.

 

Event Planning

Great meetings, events, and seminars just don’t happen. Weeks of discussion and negotiation with multiple parties is often required to plan the simplest of events. While one person may be able to handle small scale meetings, larger events such as conventions require a skilled team of event planners. No matter what kind of program your organization is looking to host, CAM’s team of experienced event planners can help.

 

In addition to the services detailed here, CAM is ready to work with your association’s leaders to develop custom project specifications to suit your association’s specific needs. For more information on how CAM can help you better manage your association and a full list of services, contact Donna Halstead: donna.halstead@creativeassociation.com or visit http://www.creativeassociation.com

A Full Service Solution

When looking to reduce your association’s expenses or operate more efficiently, what better place to turn than an internationally recognized organization with over 20 years of experience in the concrete industry? Creative Association Management (CAM) is a charter association management company whose clients have received awards for outstanding certification programs, meetings, conventions marketing, newsletters, and publications. CAM has the unique ability to access the resources of an organization with 20,000 members and chapters around the world. CAM can custom fit a solution to your association’s needs—whether large or small, ongoing or one-time only.

 

CAM offers two service options to better serve our clients. Through our full-service management plan, CAM can give you all the tools you need to run your organization more effectively. With our à la carte services, you pick only the services your organization needs.

 

Some of CAM’s most popular services include:

eLearning production

Information technology (IT) services

Publishing, ePublishing & newsletter development

Convention, seminar, and event planning

Accounting/financial services

Certification program development & administration

Marketing and public relations services

Order fulfillment

Membership development and retention

 

For more information on how CAM can help you better manage your association and a full list of services, contact Donna Halstead: donna.halstead@creativeassociation.com or visit http://www.creativeassociation.com

Certification Program Development

The process of developing a certification-training program can be a long and daunting task. But, with a partner like CAM, it doesn’t have to be.  Creating the content, testing the materials, and storing the data require a level of expertise that only years of experience can provide. From the initial consultation, CAM’s certification experts will provide a comprehensive analysis of the needs of your specific program, and will guide you through the phases of the development process and create a plan for its continued management. Utilizing CAM’s wealth of experience will ensure that your program is well designed, well executed, and well maintained.

CAM offers its clients strategic and tactical certification consultation, including:

• Program development & maintenance
• Workbook Creation
• Program administration & related support
• Exam processing
• Directory creation & maintenance

For more information on how CAM can help with your certification development, contact Donna Halstead at Donna.Halstead@creativeassociation.com

CAM Can Help: Event Planning

 

Great meetings, events, and seminars just don’t happen. Weeks of discussion and negotiation with multiple parties is often required to plan the simplest of events. While one person may be able to handle small scale meetings, larger events such as conventions require a skilled team of event planners.

With CAM, worries of how a complicated event will be planned are gone.  Our team of expert event planners can handle trade shows and webinars, contract negotiations and speaker management. No matter what kind of program your organization is looking host, CAM is able to help.

 

Other services CAM’s event staff can provide:

• Site Selection & Research
• Registration Processing
• International Seminars/Conferences
• Conferences
• Live Webinars
• Expense Tracking
• Award Program Development
• Seminars
• Exhibit Sales

For more information on how CAM can help with your event planning needs, contact Donna Halstead at Donna.Halstead@creativeassociation.com

Social Media: More Than a Fad

The allure of social media is beginning to entice those who were once leery. Organizations that once considered it unnecessary are finding that participating in social media is now standard practice. But before charging the tech-savvy person in the office with the task of setting up accounts, consider what it will take to successfully leverage a social platform.

Management

Hiring a full-time person to manage social media channels may not be an option for many organizations. Oftentimes, this task is assigned to someone in marketing or the tech-savvy person. Other groups find that hiring a consultant to help create a strategy and set up the platforms works best. Regardless, management of social sites will require someone engaging with followers on the site, developing content, and reviewing analytics for the site.

Content

Content is king, and knowing what the customer wants to read and share is key. Although promoting products and services seems like great content to push through social media, that shouldn’t be the focus. Providing content that teaches rather than promotes is more accepting. Also consider sharing photos and videos. People tend to look at a post longer if pictures or videos are attached.

Cost

Creating a Facebook or Twitter account only requires an e-mail address. However, it becomes clear that there are costs associated with developing a successful social media campaign. New content won’t magically appear. Someone has to create and curate content, as well as monitor feedback and social statistics. If managing the social sites in-house, the proper monitoring tools also need to be purchased.

The social media landscape changes from week to week—new platforms are created and new features are added to old platforms. Developing a plan before launching into social media will save time and ensure a successful takeoff.

For more information on how CAM can help manage your organization’s social media channels, contact Donna Halstead at Donna.Halstead@creativeassociation.com.

CAM’s Publishing Services: It’s not always what you publish, but how.

Producing newsletters, magazines, and technical publications require staffing a team of graphic designers and editors to ensure that a quality product is consistently delivered. As you know, managing this process can be complicated and expensive. CAM has a talented full-service design and editorial team that specializes in producing content for organizations of various sizes. Whether you need a four-page newsletter, a 64-page full-color magazine, an annual directory, or a membership directory, we have the resources to get it done.

CAM’s team currently produces more than 300 publications in a variety of formats, including reference sets, CD-ROMs, PDFs, and new electronic books (or “e-books”). With CAM’s e-book expertise, your members and customers can experience convention programs, journals, magazines, and technical documents with links and videos directly embedded in this interactive format. Today, many people – including your members – expect to be able to download content to their iPads, Kindles, smart phones, and other e-readers.  CAM can help you cater to their needs.

In addition to digital formats, CAM is able to publish your full-color monthly magazines (with or without advertising), symposium and conference proceedings, books, reference manuals, scholarly journals (including manuscript submission and review), newsletters, e-newsletters, and more.

For more information on how CAM can help with your organization’s e-books or custom publishing services, contact Donna Halstead: Donna.Halstead@creativeassociation.com