How to recruit new members for a new club?

<p>My friends and I just thought of a great idea for a club, but since its already the middle of the year, how will we recruit members?</p>

<p>The cancer society club put posters up saying "Want to Cure Cancer Today?-blah blah blah" and then a few weeks later "150 people died because you didn't join the Cancer Society"</p>

<p>I think I'm going to go join, just because I like their signs. hah.</p>

<p>So, try to be flashy, I would say.</p>

<p>Free Food.</p>

<p>^^I Agree.</p>

<p>facebook??</p>

<p>Be popular.
What kind of club is it?</p>

<p>The success of flyers depends on the school.</p>

<p>My school has so many flyers plastered all over it that none of us even read them anymore.</p>

<p>Now if you REALLY want to get people's attention, stand over the stair railing and toss the flyers down. Always works...although you could get into trouble for littering if people are jerks and report it.</p>

<p>The only reason people come to Mathletes is because we raise money for snacks the year before. -___-</p>

<p>I am having the same problem for Aca Deca. Can't find anyone with a low GPA for the varsity squad.</p>

<p>The best way to recruit members is to approach people individually and invite them to join.</p>

<ol>
<li>Free Food.</li>
<li>Good Free Food.</li>
<li>Free Money.</li>
<li>Funny Posters.</li>
<li>Announcements.</li>
<li>Word of Mouth.</li>
<li>Lies.</li>
</ol>

<p>I am also voting for food.
"If you feed them they will come"
I just started a Math Circle at a local college, and we do give snacks...</p>

<p>Food is definitely the factor that will net you the most recruits.</p>

<p>The next best way is to talk to people you know who are interested in joining, and have them convince people they know who would be interested in joining.</p>

<p>Flyers are a good general way to get the club known to people.</p>

<p>Personally asking people really only works if its an exclusive club. For example, I'm trying to start a hardcore debate team, and I've been personally asking good friends of mine who I know would be a huge asset to the team to join. </p>

<p>But for something like, Environmental Club, personally asking people could backfire because it might make the club seem too exclusive. I have a friend who is the president of our school's christian club, and she asks a lot of people to come to the meetings, which is good, but at the same time, it leaves other potential members out because they might feel they are not welcome since they were not asked. </p>

<p>It really depends on how your school is and what the club is like.</p>

<p>I started the Olympiad Team by printing out invitations to the first meeting, then giving them to the science teachers at my school and telling them to give the invitations only to the n best students in their classes, where n depended on what classes they taught. Lots of people showed up the first day (estimate 30 or so).</p>

<p>It went downhill from there (after they realized I really had no clue what I was doing) :p</p>

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I am having the same problem for Aca Deca. Can't find anyone with a low GPA for the varsity squad.

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<p>Is that Academic Decathlon?</p>