VP Membership
As Vice President Membership (VPM), you promote the club and manage the process of bringing in guests and converting them into members. By initiating contact with guests, helping them feel welcome, and providing them with information they need to join, you help maintain a constant influx of new people into your club. You also attentively monitor membership levels and strategize with the rest of the executive committee about how to overcome membership challenges when they occur.
Responsibilities
- Initiate contact with guests and help them feel welcome
- Provide hospitality and membership information for guests
- Reply to all communications from prospective members in a timely manner
- Manage the process of converting guests to members
- Monitor membership levels and strategize with the club executive committee to cover membership challenges when they occur
- Conduct membership-building programs
- Promote the club and recruit new members
- Hold yourself and other officers accountable
- Remain current with the Leader Letter
Skills Learned
- Marketing
- Networking and relationship-building
- Strategic planning
- Critical thinking
- Internal/external communication skills
- Organization and problem-solving
- Positive small group collaboration
- Succession planning
- Compliance with standard procedures
Membership Growth
This manual is intended as a reference tool in planning and maintaining membership growth in your club.
You will find that it touches on many areas that are given in-depth coverage in other Toastmasters publications, and you will readily see where other publications such as Let the World Know Publicity and Promotion Handbook (Item 1140), Master Your Meetings (Item 1312), Success 101 (Item 1622), the Club Leadership Handbook (Item 1310), the Leader Letter, the Toastmaster magazine, and others will provide your club with additional membership-building ideas and tools.
Finding New Members for Your Club
“Finding New Members for Your Club” emphasizes the importance of building membership, suggests methods for finding new members, and describes how to treat guests when they visit the club.
This product consists of four parts:
Definition and explanation of the presentation
Guidelines for your introduction to the audience
Outline for the development of your speech
CD of a PowerPoint presentation to be viewed along with your speech.
Open House
- Open House Flyers –
- Dynamic Open House (Article)
- 5 Terrific Tips on a Triumphant Open House (Article)
- Open House Step-by-Step Checklist
- After the Open House (Article)