For Jan 23, Rick Morrissey is putting together a Membership Committee program and going over the plan for our (max 1 minute) “Rotary elevator speech” contest on Jan 30.  These two meetings will be centered around enhancing mindfulness about Rotary in our daily lives, and the sharing/capturing of member’s collective Rotary experiences, motivations for joining and staying in the club, and potential new approaches to recruitment techniques.  There’s so much to know about Rotary that many find it difficult to answer the simple questions “What is Rotary?”, or “why did you join?” or “why have you stayed a member for so long?” in a very short, interest provoking manner.  Collaboration among our more experienced members in particular, to share soft selling tidbits, personal approaches to recruiting that have worked for them, etc. should be interesting, entertaining, and educational for us all.

 

Greetings Morning Star Rotarians:

 

As has been announced at our past two meetings, our Membership Committee is asking for volunteers to briefly share their Rotary story at the January 30 meeting.  We are seeking a few members who will consider sharing in 30 to 60 seconds, (aka the Elevator Speech), why they joined Morning Star Rotary and have continued to be a proud member. 

 

Please know that we can structure the ‘speeches’ for the volunteers to be presented informally, in the same manner as our Happy Dollar announcements where the microphone comes to the table.  We also advertised this as an ‘Elevator Speech’ contest specifically to add a little fun and excitement.  So as they say,  you can’t have a contest without contestants!

 

All volunteers please let me know this Thursday, or via my email at rpmorrissey16@yahoo.com (or any of the Membership Committee members - Sarabel Conn, Zac Ainslie, Steve Bajan, or John Oesmann).

Where this is all leading toward is that sharing your own personal Rotary story with friends and associates is one of the most effective ways to bring new members to our club.  There will be more on Morning Star membership development at our next meeting.  Thanks for your help!

 

Sincerely,

Rick Morrissey, MSR Membership Committee

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