Association Strategy & Marketing
mdg serves its association clients by helping them advance a broad range of objectives. Our approach embraces a shift from a series of siloed offerings to a more holistic audience engagement strategy. Leveraging in-depth knowledge of industries and audiences, we develop and execute communication and marketing plans to increase membership, promote professional certifications and development opportunities, spark engagement, build participation in ancillary events and support sales, sponsorship and revenue objectives.
our services
Campaign audit • Component and chapter relations • Grassroots and VIP campaigns • Membership acquisition and renewal campaign management • Strategic consulting and tactical planning • Transformation consulting • Volunteer and leadership development • Member benefit development and engagement strategies
client testimonial
mdg is completely integrated into our staff and serves as an integral arm for NASSP, far exceeding typical marketing and communication functions. mdg has greatly impacted the organization, helping us achieve the goals of our strategic plan and move toward a more progressive culture. mdg has a seat at every major conversation for our organization.

case study
NASSP
Since 2014, the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), a 100+ year-old organization, was facing significant challenges, including a severe decline in membership, decreased relevancy among its target audience (namely younger school leaders) and an increasing sense of apathy for its programs and offerings. To address these challenges, the association’s executive leadership team implemented a two-year strategic plan with aggressive goals for brand awareness, membership growth and stakeholder engagement. Leadership quickly realized that, in order to meet these goals, they would need additional bandwidth and more specialized marketing and communications talent. As such, mdg was engaged to serve as NASSP’s marketing and communications department.