Small Staff Appreciation Month kicks off in just a little more than a week! We’ll be celebrating with daily giveaways, association profiles and more!

The giveaways:

• Every Monday thru Thursday in October, we’ll give away a prize package including Small Staffs Rule T-Shirts!
• Every Friday in October, we’ll give away a Small Staff Care Package!
• On Friday the 28th, we will randomly pick a winner of our grand prize – an iPad 2 (32 GB, Wi-Fi)!

If you’d like to go ahead and enter to win one of the daily, weekly or grand prize drawings, click here.

Additionally, if you’d like your small staff association to be profiled here on the Splash blog, please email me at shannon@memberclicks.com.

Small Staff Appreciation Month isn’t limited to MemberClicks! If you’re a member of the association community – whether as a vendor, consultant or association professional – we’d love for you to get involved! We’re looking for other vendors to help promote the month on their own blogs and websites, and we’ll help you publicize your efforts. If you’re interested in learning more, click here to inquire.

Well, The MemberClicks Ultimate Small Staff Spa Day Giveaway has come to an end and we have a winner!

Drumroll, please…

A big congratulations to the National Turkey Federation!

They posted this picture on our Facebook wall along with this caption:

Turkey for me and turkey for you.
Working for the turkey industry is what we do.
A gobble gobble here and a gobble gobble there.
Some days we’d like to run to a lair.
A day of pampering would be so great.
Just like a day with turkey on a plate.

The entire staff will receive a spa day worth $3,000 to de-stress and get pampered! Congratulations!

Thanks to all the small staff associations who entered our Spa Day Giveaway! Truthfully, everyone deserves a day of rest and relaxation.

And you may be wondering who the 10 runners-up are! The following 10 associations will receive Serenity Gift Packages designed to refresh their staffs:

- ABC

- ANIA-CARING

- Associated General Contractors of Greater Florida, Inc.

- FPIN

- Georgia Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

- Keep Norfolk Beautiful

- KSHA

- PNACAC

- VACE

- Women’s Business Enterprise Council South

Congratulations to everyone!

Small staffs have it rough. You’re short on time and resources, managing your organization, and trying to keep your sanity in the process. We understand.

That’s why MemberClicks is holding the Ultimate Small-Staff Spa Day Giveaway. When we say we’re devoted to providing you with refreshing experiences, we don’t stop with our products and services. We’re going to send the entire staff of one lucky organization to a day at the spa, on us!

You Can Win:

• The Grand Prize – We’ll send your entire staff to a spa day, valued up to $3,000.
• Serenity Care Packages – We’ll also pick 10 runners-up to receive prize packages designed to refresh small-staffs.

It’s Easy To Enter:

• Go to our Facebook page and “like us.”
• Post a picture of your entire staff together to our wall along with a short explanation of why you need a day at the spa. Creativity is encouraged!
• If an entrant does not have a Facebook account, they can send a picture of their staff accompanied by an explanation of why they need a day at the spa to webmaster@memberclicks.com.
• Multiple entries per organization are accepted (limit one per staff member – pictures must be different).
• Entries will be accepted from May 10 through June 29, 2011.
• On June 30, we will choose a winner. Winners will first be announced on the MemberClicks’ Facebook and Twitter.

Who Can Enter:

To enter, you must be on the staff of an association or association management company whose staff size is between one and fifteen. The contest is also open to all current MemberClicks customers.

Good luck!

When Apple made its big iPad announcement, we started thinking … How could small-staff associations use the iPad to manage their business operations? We were intrigued, and we wanted to find out! So, we decided to give a few away and find out for ourselves!

CEO Steve Jobs promised it would be “magical” and give us an even bigger, better mobile device than the iPhone, but what does that really mean?

The day after Apple’s big announcement, I tried to sort through the hype and figure out what the iPad could mean for small-staff associations down the road. We’re increasingly moving toward a mobile society, and the iPad takes that a step further. I see a lot of potential for the iPad down the road, but we want to find out exactly how a small-staff association would use this awesome device.

So, today marks the official kick-off of the MemberClicks’ Great Small-Staff iPad Giveaway!

Here’s the deal: We’re giving away four 32GB iPads, equipped with wi-fi — one to a current MemberClicks customer, the other to a non-customer.

How to enter: E-mail me at socialmedia@memberclicks.com with a short essay explaining why your organization needs the iPad and how you hope to use it. Be creative and specific! Events, meetings, mobility, creating an app … anything goes here!

How will an iPad affect your small-staff organization’s operations and/or use of the MemberClicks solution?

We’ll select two grand prize winners exactly two weeks from today, on March 23. The iPad becomes available on April 3, and we’ll be pre-ordering them when that’s available.

But the fun doesn’t stop after that. We want to know how your organization is utilizing the iPad. So we’ll be checking in periodically with each winner to get the low-down on how your organization is using the device. And your organization will be featured right on this blog to keep our readers updated.

Sound like something your association is interested in? E-mail entries to socialmedia@memberclicks.com.

We can’t wait to read how the iPad can affect the daily lives of small-staff associations.