--- title: "Monday Buzz: Six Guidelines for Picking Association Consultants" id: "27765" type: "post" slug: "monday-buzz-six-guidelines-for-picking-association-consultants" published_at: "2015-03-30T18:31:31+00:00" modified_at: "2026-03-16T13:44:11+00:00" url: "https://associationsnow.com/2015/03/30/monday-buzz-six-guidelines-for-picking-association-consultants/" markdown_url: "https://associationsnow.com/2015/03/30/monday-buzz-six-guidelines-for-picking-association-consultants.md" excerpt: "Avoid the pitfalls of hiring consultants by learning how to properly vet them. Plus: how to sell more tickets to your next event." taxonomy_category: - "Governance" taxonomy_post_tag: - "AssociationsNow" - "consultants" - "Hiring" - "Leadership" - "nonprofit" taxonomy_content_format: - "Article" taxonomy_role: - "Association CEO / Executive Director" - "Director" - "Executive Team" - "VP" taxonomy_persona: - "Association Professionals" --- [Home](https://associationsnow.com/) » [Articles](https://associationsnow.com/format/article/) » Monday Buzz: Six Guidelines for Picking Association Consultants Has your organization hired one too many consultants who just didn’t work out? [Eugene Fram (opens in a new tab)](https://twitter.com/eugenefram) , professor emeritus of management at [Saunders College of Business (opens in a new tab)](http://saunders.rit.edu/) at Rochester Institute of Technology, has seen that problem arise many times during his many years with nonprofits and has shared [some lessons learned in an article for The Huffington Post (opens in a new tab)](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eugene-fram/thorough-vetting-needed-w_b_6966458.html) . “From what others and I have observed, the board too often selects a person for the job without adequately researching his/her “fit” to the requisite challenge,” Fram writes. As he warns, “a failure to appropriately vet a candidate can result in a weakened process and disappointing results.” Fram’s guidelines center on these six qualifiers: - Experience - Work samples - References - Work habit - Flexibility - Price For more details about each of these guidelines, [click here to read Fram’s full post (opens in a new tab)](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eugene-fram/thorough-vetting-needed-w_b_6966458.html) . ### Roundup of the Day **Miss the flurry** of social media announcements last week? We covered what Facebook’s “[distributed content](http://associationsnow.com/2015/03/wednesday-buzz-distributed-content/) ” could mean for associations, and why you may want to [consider adding live steaming app Meerkat](http://associationsnow.com/2015/03/associations-care-meerkat-possibly/) to your toolbox. And above, Hootsuite has a handy roundup of everything else that happened in what amounted to a significant seven days for social. ### Other Good Reads **We all want to sell more tickets** to our upcoming conferences and other events, and [these five tips from Event Tech Lab cofounder James Morgan (opens in a new tab)](http://www.eventmanagerblog.com/sell-more-tickets) can help bolster your attendee rolls. **Learn how one organization built a monthly giving campaign** from the ground up in [this guest post (opens in a new tab)](http://www.nonprofitmarketingblog.com/site/how_i_started_my_first_monthly_giving_program) on the *Nonprofit Marketing Blog* by [Get Fully Funded founder Sandy Rees (opens in a new tab)](http://getfullyfunded.com/?rel=author) . **Thinking about going native with your advertising?** Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism Director [Jeff Jarvis (opens in a new tab)](https://twitter.com/jeffjarvis) [has a post on Medium (opens in a new tab)](https://medium.com/geeks-bearing-gifts/native-advertising-fiend-or-foe-b13e039cc29d) exploring the intricacies of, and problems with, native advertising. (Monkey Business Images/Stockbroker/ThinkStock) [Morgan Little](https://associationsnow.com/author/morgan-little/) Morgan Little is a contributor to Associations Now. 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