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FROM THE DESK
Think Outside the Box
by Cathy French, ACGz, ALB—Club Growth Director
Every day you have the potential to contribute • Is there a college nearby—students,
to another person’s success. Take a few moments faculty, administration?
to think about some of the opportunities you
may have missed in the last few weeks. • Who are your favorite sales people?
• Have you asked your spouse—or the
Who would you like to mentor? Look on
Google, LinkedIn, Facebook and other social people they know?
networks—invite them to your meetings. If they • Who is on your bowling team?
don’t live nearby, invite them to another club in • Multi level marketers, travel agents, insur-
the District. Find someone in that club to greet
them as they enter and mentor if they join. ance agents, real estate brokers.
THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX! THEN—
Finding potenial guests: bring them in, impress them, ask them to
• Place a flyer on a coffee shop board join. Then, create a meeting environment
• Review your business cards that you have that will make them want to stay. If you do
this, you will certainly finish up with a large,
collected strong club.
• Who sells you products to use in your
August Updates
home or business?
• Who contacts you with offers to advertise • Smedley Award—August 1, 2016 through
September 30, 2016—Grow your club by
your business? 5 new members for an incentive from
• Who comes to your home to repair or Toastmasters International
enhance your home or yard? • Bingo card-I hope you have started filling
• Who do you purchase services from out your Bingo card! I look forward to
seeing who is first to get a Bingo
outside of your home?
• Your church bulletin • Future DTM’s—Contact Allison Bennett
• Friends and business associates—people to become part of the Coach program.
This would fulfill one of the requirements
they know! needed to become a DTM
• Health club bulletin boards
• Who belongs to your local PTA? • The Membership Ambassador program
• Who lives next door or across the is starting. We are in need of ambassadors
on the Coast, Bend and Redmond areas,
street? and Vancouver. Southern Oregon is step-
• How about your hairdresser, dentist, ping up. Yay to all the volunteers there.
doctor, chiropractor, orthodontist? Congratulations to Peer Masters
• Who is on your holiday greeting list?
Our first newly chartered club of the 2016-
2017 year. It looks we have a few more that will
charter this coming month. What an exciting
year this will be.
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