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Overthe past few weeks I have discussed four steps that need to be taken tosuccessfully recruit new members into your club/organization. If you followthese four simple steps and tweak them accordingly then success  willhappen. The four simple steps that I have talked about are: Step1: Identifying why people join your club/organization.Step 2: ...

Now that you have successfully recruited prospective members into your club/organization, the next step is to make them all feel welcome. One of the very first things that you should do is to host some kind of new member meeting. Make it some form of initiation process with the entire group involved to make them feel appreciated, needed and ...

This week is a BIG one but stick with me.  This is probably one of the most important steps to remember when recruiting new members for your organization. It is ''your'' job, it's your organizations job to talk to everyone. You can start by having your current members identify people that they know personally that may want to get involved. Have ...

Once you have discovered why people join organizations and you have explored the reasons why they might, the next step is recruitment. How many members is your organization looking for? What is the right number of members? When do you draw the line? Before you start recruiting you need to think about how many members your organization is looking ...

Let's start off my asking yourself one question. Why did you join Student Activities Board, Campus Activities Board, Student Programming Board, etc..? Answering this question should help you partly identify why students may want to join an organization. There were a couple of reasons why I joined the Campus Activities Board at ...