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**How to hack it?**To celebrate its fifth anniversary, the International Public Safety Association offered an intriguing membership trial: It invited prospects to test-drive the member experience for two weeks for $5.

The trial membership gave prospects access to a range of benefits, including [selected publications and webinars (opens in a new tab)](https://www.joinipsa.org/5-Year-Anniversary)
 and free registration to IPSA’s fall meeting in Washington, DC.

**Why did it work?** The $5 trial membership offer gave would-be members a glimpse of IPSA’s benefits and professional community without a major commitment by either the association or the prospective member. The promotion was also an excellent way for the IPSA to celebrate [a milestone moment](https://associationsnow.com/2017/03/membership-hack-milestone-moments/)
.

**What’s the bonus?** IPSA incentivized trial members to [join as associate, active, or lifetime members (opens in a new tab)](https://www.joinipsa.org/Membership)
. Anyone who joined as a professional member during the first half of August was automatically entered into a raffle for a chance to win a free registration to the 2020 annual meeting in Tempe, Arizona.

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[Tim Ebner](https://associationsnow.com/author/tim-ebner/)

Tim Ebner is communications director and press secretary at the American Forest & Paper Association in Washington, DC. He is a member of ASAE’s Communication Professionals Advisory Council and a former Associations Now senior editor.

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