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    eBooks and Toolkits
    Consumer Ed, Consumer Education

    How to Talk About Raising Rates

    Is there a rate increase in your future? Market forces such as labor costs, materials, equipment, wholesale power and programming costs are squeezing your already tight operating margins. As a consumer-owned power or telecommunications provider, you must adjust your rates to cover costs. But how do you communicate the need for a rate increase when consumers already feel […]
    Justin Caudell
    April 23, 2026
  • eBooks and Toolkits
    Consumer Ed, Consumer Education

    How to Talk About Raising Rates

    Is there a rate increase in your future? Market forces such as labor costs, materials, equipment, wholesale power and programming costs are squeezing your already tight operating margins. As a consumer-owned power or telecommunications provider, you must adjust your rates to cover costs. But how do you communicate the need for a rate increase when consumers already feel […]
    Justin Caudell
    April 26, 2023
  • eBooks and Toolkits
    Crisis Communications, Social Media

    Social Storms

    How often do you think of outage messaging from a consumers’ perspective? Anna Politano, director of public relations and communications at the Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives, took this task to heart. She wrote her graduate thesis on what needs drive consumers to engage with a utility during an outage. We partnered with Anna to […]
    Anna Politano, CCC
    November 3, 2021
  • eBooks and Toolkits
    Marketing, Marketing Campaigns

    Seven Ways to Keep Digital Ads on Target

    In a digital-first world, are your messages reaching members? Learn how to build an effective advertising strategy for the digital marketplace. Learn about social mirroring, mobile conquesting, and a carousel of other digital advertising options to make sure your content reaches the right consumers. Get the Guide
    Tina M. Potter
    September 28, 2021
  • eBooks and Toolkits
    Crisis Communications

    Coping with a Crisis

    To help you prepare for hurricanes, wildfires, snowstorms and other types of extended outages, we share best practices in this eBook, Coping with a Crisis. The publication offers insights from battle-tested communicators who survived losing critical communication channels during 2018’s Hurricane Michael. It  features crisis communication plans from Oregon, Nevada and Florida, with handy tools […]
    Megan McKoy-Noe, CCC
    April 2, 2020
  • eBooks and Toolkits
    Digital Marketing, Social Media

    How to be Human in a Digital World

    Connecting with consumer-members online starts by sharing the human side of your story. Our eBook, How to Be Human in a Digital World, shares six ways to strengthen your relationship with consumer-members online.
    Megan McKoy-Noe, CCC
    November 2, 2019