Membership Mixers For Presidents and Membership Chairs! The District has a reward plan to help you with your membership promotions. District will award you up to 250.00 to help you with any kind of membership mixer ideas that you might come up with. If 2 clubs team up, that could be times 2! |
Chamber of Commerce: Most Rotary Clubs are also members of the Chambers. Use their resources to your advantage. Our Kodiak Noon Rotary Club just printed out the Kodiak Chamber Membership roster and they are using the list to invite Prospective members of the Kodiak Chamber to come visit our Kodiak Clubs. What a great resource for potential Rotary members! Chambers also do BAH’s (Business after Hours)! These are generally monthly and they will send advertising info to each member and usually will do social media and other advertising to promote the event. I believe that I did the first one in the district, here in Kodiak. It was in 2011-12, Brad Gamble’s Governor Year. We called it a, “Community Appreciation Night”! I caution you NOT to call it a membership drive! You may as well invite them to a colonoscopy! People don’t want to go to a membership event and no one wants to go to another meeting. Make it FUN!! Kodiak Community is very giving, and they help our Rotary Clubs quite a bit, with door prizes, and money sponsorships, for events that we do throughout the year. The local Chamber will help run the event and will usually do a Split-the-Pot, but you need to provide a decent door prize to draw folks in. We actually had 2 Round Trip tickets to Anchorage, donated by RAVN. Plane tickets will usually draw an extra 50 people to an event like this. People will most likely not come out to win a coffee mug or T-shirt. We had approximately 80 people attend our joint mixer event. It is advised that you schedule District Governor Diane, or someone from District, to speak about Rotary opportunities. If your community is like ours, they are used to hearing us speak; someone that is new will have a bigger impression on your guests. You know the saying about a prophet in his hometown. Now that you have your audience, mingle, make it fun, get to know them, and use the opportunity to invite them to lunch or breakfast, or whenever your Rotary club meets. Again I caution you not to invite them to a meeting. Use other organized groups that already have membership networks. Think outside the box! Remember, Every Rotarian, Every Month! Invite a guest a month, induct one of them a year! Keep asking! Yours in Rotary Lindsay Knight District 5010 Membership Chair (907-539-7298) |