At AIIP, we survey our members every other year to get a sense of who our members are and how AIIP can best help them build strong, resilient businesses.
AIIP members, Cindy Shamel and Christine Geluk presented a session on how to get started as a consultant at the Special Libraries Association (SLA) conference on Tuesday, June 12 2018.
Members of the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP – visit aiip.org) met for their 32nd annual conference April 19-22 2018 at the Millennium Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The annual conference provided a unique opportunity for independent informational professionals from around the world to meet, build new relationships and hone their business skills.
This year’s theme of Thriving in the New Normal was well represented in program sessions and highlighted with the keynote speech by Mary Meehan, Co-founder and CEO, Panoramix Global. A future issue of AIIP Connections publication will include write-ups of the conference sessions.
One of our new members recently asked what we wish we had known when we first launched our infopro businesses. Read on for some of the top tips our members had, collated by Mary Ellen Bates.
Whether you are new to infopreneurship or have been in the business for years, these insights will probably resonate with you as you move your business, or business idea forward. Read More →
With the AIIP 2018 Annual Conference just around the corner Mary Ellen Bates shares her thoughts on the one of the key benefits of AIIP Membership.
I’ve often been asked about the value of membership in AIIP, the Association of Independent Information Professionals. My first response is always that AIIP is the most collegial group of people I have ever met.
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You know you have attended a good conference when you are still thinking about what you heard months later. AIIP’s latest annual Conference was one of those conferences for me – A post by Mary Ellen Bates
The 2017 conference focused on pivoting as a strategic approach—something that we infopreneurs do continually as we adjust to our clients’ changing needs and pain points.
You may not have heard of prospect research. This field of research is devoted to assisting organizations with donor identification and donor relations management for fund raising, and is one of the many specialized research services AIIP members offer clients.
This field of research often combines Prospect Research, Prospect Management, Grantwriting and Fundraising.
We asked Marge King, President of InfoRich Group for some tips on how to get started as a prospect researcher.
What exactly do info pros do that consult to libraries?
Today’s info pros that consult to library services are specialists in strategic marketing for libraries.
We asked Jennifer Burke, President, Intellicraft Research, for some tips on how to mix marketing and information skills to consult to library services.
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