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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 ...

Well lets see... I would really like to fill everyone in on what a great night Tuesday was but unfortunately I had to be taken to the Emergency Room for my foot. I was trying to save front row seats for my group at showcase #5. I was running in my socks and went to turn the corner and fell into a bunch of chairs. I did one summer sault, a roll, ...

 Home again. Home again.  and I already miss NACA! I will confess that due to my longing for NACA to return I wore one of my many shirts from CAMP, listened to cds from the various NACA musicians on the way to school today, have refused to unpack my NACA bag, and am going to dinner with our ''delegation'' tonight (we have separation ...

Last night at 1:49 am I attempted to write a new post, however it didn't quite work so I thought that I would take a few minutes right now before the next set of educational sessions begin to elaborate on some of our adventures. It really feels like there has been so much happening that we just keep going,,, and going,,, and going,,,!!! Its ...

  When I woke up this morning I was so exhausted. I was up all night blogging and hanging with some awesome people (Chris and Jen) from a college in Texas. SHOUT OUT, WOO!! Our group got all ready to go and went down stairs to Star Bucks and was amazed to see how freaking crazy the snow was blowing. That was some really crazy ...

 Hey whats going on everyone? I am hoping that everyone is having a really good time so far at the NACA National Convention in St. Louis, MO YEAH BABY!   On our first day arriving here our CAB group went out to a really great Irish Pub called Flannery's. Their food was crazy good. The atmosphere was really great and they have some kick ...