Your members renew for content.
They stay for each other.
FOR ASSOCIATIONS
Connect Networks gives membership organizations and trade groups the infrastructure to make peer relationships — not programming — the reason people belong year after year.
THE PROBLEM
Great events create the conditions for connection. We build what comes next.
Your event does something essential: it puts the right people in the same room. Connect Networks does what comes next — making sure the engagement continues and the community deepens.
The associations winning on retention aren't the ones with the best content libraries. They're the ones where members have relationships with each other. Connect builds customized matching strategies to increase the likelihood that great conversations happen between people who wouldn’t otherwise interact — trusted relationships are the result.
2x
higher renewal rate
Associations with highly engaged members see twice the renewal rate — plus 30% greater event participation.
Community Brands, 2023
80%
of executives prefer community-driven insights
Community-generated intelligence is more actionable than traditional market research.
Deloitte, 2023
WHAT CONNECT DOES FOR ASSOCIATIONS
Turn membership into momentum.
Year-round engagement
Biweekly peer matching keeps members active between conferences and content drops — so engagement builds steadily rather than spiking and dropping.
Intelligence from inside
Anonymized themes from member exchanges surface emerging sector trends, shared challenges, and knowledge gaps — giving your leadership team a signal no conference survey could produce.
A premium member benefit
Your members joined in part because they wanted to be associated with other members. Curated peer connection is a benefit that content access alone can't replicate. And it compounds over time — the longer someone is a member, the more valuable they become.
No new staff. No new budget.
All matching, scheduling, and reporting is automated. At a fraction of the cost of a single event, Connect runs continuously between them.
Cross-pollination at scale
The most valuable conversations in your network happen between members who've never formally met. Connect makes those introductions systematically — by design, not by chance.
Customized to your goals
We work with your team to design a matching strategy aligned with your specific member outcomes — not a generic algorithm applied to every network the same way.
Connect gives me direct access to the hidden experts—the doers—transforming global and local economies. I've found great people I wouldn't have ever come across, from Denmark to India to the U.S.
JEFF GITTERMAN
New York City, USA
Your members have more to offer each other than they know.
Tell us about your network, your engagement plateau, or your renewal challenge. We'll show you what's possible.