Here’s the latest entry into the association blog world: PCMA’s Membership Blog. While not too much is going on there yet (it’s just a week old), I like its style.

[This] would be a great final link to add to a registration confirmation: “Let us know if you see a way we could have made your registration process simpler. All ideas implemented will be given a $___ discount toward the meeting of your choice.”

When I saw this comment to my last post by Jeffrey Cufaude, it was too good not to pull out and put in its own post. I would add that there should be something like this on the evaluation forms as well.

I wish we could do this for our magazines, except they’re already free. I do have a pretty good library of meeting planning books I could give away for ideas worth implementing—would that work? I’d love to give this a try.

So I’m on a Web site that’s selling something I most likely want to buy for my magazine, but it won’t let me. There is no way to find out prices, much less place an order. There is a number to call, but it just put me into an automated system that, after 10 minutes, dumped me into an anonymous voice mail. There’s an e-mail address, along the lines of info@thiscompany.com, which doesn’t give me confidence I will ever hear from a human, either. In the annoyance level, this may rank even higher than not being able to find a company’s physical address or phone. And it’s so stupid—their business is to sell me something, and they won’t let me do it.

Please, I beg of you, do not do this to your attendees on your meeting Web site! Right now, go to your Web site and try to register. If the experience isn’t seamless, fix it.

If you don’t make it incredibly easy for them to buy what you’re selling, they, like me, might just give up.