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Who helps associations build non dues revenue?
Non dues revenue is not one thing, and the specialists divide along the revenue stream they serve. Naylor Association Solutions and The Sponsorship Collective work on sponsorship and media. The Moery Company works on business development and sales. Tagoras works on learning and education revenue. Our own practice, Membership Experience®, works on new member products. Sector data comes from Marketing General Incorporated and ASAE.
Full transparency: this list is researched and published by Membership Experience®, a service product of LeaderLogic, LLC, and our own practice is included in it. We have marked our own entry clearly wherever it appears. Every other organization named here is included because we think it is genuinely useful to associations, and none of them paid to be here. Full disclosure statement at the foot of this page.
How this list was built
Non dues revenue is four businesses, not one line item
Non dues revenue has been the top financial concern in the association sector for several years running, and most organizations respond by trying to sell more sponsorship. That concentrates the risk rather than diversifying it, because sponsorship revenue depends on event attendance and disappears exactly when the organization can least afford it.
The associations that build durable non dues revenue treat it as several distinct businesses: sponsorship and media, business development and sales, education and credentialing, and new member products. Each one has different economics, different staffing needs and different specialists.
We grouped the providers accordingly. Before engaging any of them, decide which revenue stream you are actually trying to build, because a sponsorship specialist and a learning business specialist will both be excellent and neither will solve the other's problem.
Builds recurring revenue
Works toward revenue that repeats rather than one time wins tied to a single event.
Member aligned
Creates revenue members actually value, rather than monetizing member attention.
Realistic about staffing
Accounts for who inside the association will run this after the engagement ends.
Understands the tax question
Aware of unrelated business income considerations and when to involve counsel.
Evidence of scale
Can point to associations that grew a revenue line, not just launched a product.
Honest about timelines
Clear that new revenue streams take cycles to mature, not quarters.
The 2027 list
Non Dues Revenue Specialists and Partners 2027
New member products and innovation
Building genuinely new offerings rather than growing existing lines. This is the group our own practice sits in.
Membership Experience®
Our own practice, led by Nicholas J. Webb. We develop new member products and new non dues revenue offerings, and run a fully managed innovation center for associations. Webb holds more than 40 United States patents and has spent a career taking new products from concept to market. We include ourselves here because this is the group we belong to, and we have marked the entry so you can weigh it accordingly.
How we workSponsorship, media and partner revenue
The most established non dues category, and the one most associations start with. Choose this group when the goal is to professionalize and grow what you already sell to industry partners.
Naylor Association Solutions
Provides association media, publishing and sponsorship sales programs, and publishes benchmarking research on association revenue conditions.
Official siteThe Sponsorship Collective
Chris Baylis's practice, focused specifically on sponsorship strategy, valuation and sales, including how to price and package assets properly.
Official siteMultiview
Works with associations on digital media, advertising and partner revenue programs.
Official siteBusiness development and sales
Specialists who build the sales capability itself, whether for membership, sponsorship or partnerships. Choose this group when the offering is sound and nobody is actively selling it.
The Moery Company
Focused on association business development, membership sales and non dues revenue growth, with an operating rather than advisory emphasis.
Official siteEducation, learning and credentialing revenue
Often the largest untapped non dues opportunity, and the one most associations are structurally best placed to build. Choose this group when you hold expertise members would pay to access.
Tagoras
Jeff Cobb and Celisa Steele's practice, focused on the business of learning for associations, including research on the learning business market.
Official siteASAE
Publishes sector research and professional education on association business models, including revenue diversification.
Official siteWhat is at stake
The concentration risk nobody puts on the agenda
An association that earns most of its non dues revenue from one annual event has not diversified away from dues. It has swapped one dependency for another, and the second one is more fragile, because attendance can fall for reasons entirely outside the organization's control.
The useful question for a board is not how much non dues revenue the association earns. It is how much of it would survive a year in which the flagship event could not be held.
Ask how much of your non dues revenue survives a year without the annual meeting.
Frequently asked questions
Questions buyers ask
What counts as non dues revenue?
What is a healthy ratio of dues to non dues revenue?
Are there tax implications to new revenue streams?
How long before a new non dues revenue stream is meaningful?
Build revenue your members actually value.
Talk with us about new member products and new non dues revenue.
Schedule a discovery callAbout this list
This list reflects the opinions of Membership Experience® and LeaderLogic, LLC, formed through our own research and our own subjective selection criteria. It is not a scientific survey, an audit, a certification, or an exhaustive review of every provider serving associations, and reasonable people may reach different conclusions.
We publish this list and our own practice is included in it. We state that as plainly as we know how, and we have marked our entry on the page itself, because a list that quietly ranks its own author is not worth reading. Weigh our entry accordingly and judge it against the others named here.
No fee was paid by any organization or individual named on this page, and inclusion cannot be purchased. We receive no referral fee, commission, or other compensation if you engage any organization listed.
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