This coming Tuesday, April 29th is FIVER DAY!

Bring a guest … save five bucks!

What is FIVER DAY?  FIVER DAY occurs when none of us has brought a guest to a meeting.

Tips on bringing guests:

1. Don’t just give the invite, follow-up.  When you’ve invited someone and they’ve agreed to attend, follow-up with a quick reminder phone call within 48 hours and then again the Monday before.
2. Tell them what to expect.  Nothing embarrasses someone more than to feel like they don’t know what’s going on.
   1. Give the guest a summary of the meeting.
   2. Tell them to bring a lot of cards.
   3. Advise them about preparing a 30-second commercial.
   4. And most of all, remind them breakfast is free and they do not have to pay fines.
3. To help convince a guest to come, ask some fellow members to do a follow-up call to your potential guest.  This teamwork will show the guest how interested we are in their attendance.

As always, remember that we are available to answer any questions.

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In the next year, our economy is going to be a bit of a mess and the challenge to keep our respective businesses growing may … well, be more challenging!

As members of Lake Oswego LeTip, we have the distinct advantage of having developed relationships with each other that will help us.  But, we can’t rest on our laurels, we have to, we MUST grow our chapter and increase our potential.

How Do We Grow Our Membership?

We’re often advised to open up to potential members by mentioning the benefits of our chapter.  We are often advised to bring someone in “for breakfast” to experience our meetings.  These are good tips to bringing in guests … but how can we turn a “guest” into a “member”? That’s a good question, and one that merits a specific plan of action.

The simple answer is … TEAMWORK.

Here’s how we’ve envisioned the TEAM ACTION PLAN:

Guest follow-up.

After a guest attends …

1. The President, Aaron Yeagle, makes a follow-up call the next day (Wednesday) to thank the guest for coming and make the offer for them to return (or to discover why they may decline to return).  I then call the Membership Chair, John Wisniewski, to inform him of the results.
2. Membership Chair, John Wisniewski, makes a follow-up call on the Friday after, reminding guest to attend the following Tuesday (if it is their first visit).  John then calls YOU to let you know he spoke with your guest.
3. Invitor, YOU, calls guest Monday to remind guest to attend the next morning.

If we make this small effort as a team we can make a one-visit guest into a two-visit guest and then into a member!

Please contact a boardmember if you have any additional comments or questions.

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If you are interested in learning how to use the exciting resource that is the Lake Oswego LeTip website … CALL ME and I will set aside an hour or so for you and we’ll take an instructional tour through the administration panel of our site.

Once you know how to use www.loletip.com you’ll be able to:

• Add testimonials to other chapter member’s pages,
• Post announcements about special offers and events you and your company are offering,
• Post articles related to your business,
• Add photos to our galleries.

I’m certain you’ll find your time wisely spent and you’ll know more about linking strategies and how it relates to your current website.

It’s the perfect introduction to blogging!

Aaron 971-207-4492  or  503-718-7742

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I have often mentioned the power of blogging and its potential impact on your business.

Here’s an opportunity for you to learn the ins and outs of blogging using the FREE service of WordPress.com.

If you, or anyone you know, is interested in learning more about blogging CLICK HERE to sign up for this two-session class.

Read on for details:

Blogging with Wordpress

Learn the ins and outs of running your own blog. We’ll show you how to set up and administer your blogspace using Wordpress. We’ll teach you how to market your blog so that more people than just your friends and family are paying attention. We’ll teach you the lingo so you’ll understand RSS, pings and trackbacks. We’ll also spend time exploring various plugins for photo galleries, tag libraries and other useful ways to extend your Wordpress installation.

May 1 - May 8      Thurs      Evening      7:00 - 9:30 pm      $149   INFO |   REGISTER

Section 2905
2 hour, 30 minute session, meeting once a week for 2 weeks
Meets Thursdays from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Starting May 1, 2008 through May 8, 2008

Attending this class counts as a tip!

An optional 3rd session is being offered after that last class for an additional $75. It covers editing the CSS code to customize your own Wordpress templates. Talk to the instructor during class if you are interested in getting into the technical code that makes it all work.

PS.  This website is built using the WordPress blogging engine!

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I wanted to drop by and express my sincere thanks to each of you for allowing me to be President of our excellent chapter of LeTip.  I hope to everything I possibly can to make our meeting even more exciting, more informative, and most importantly, help our chapter GROW.

I went to one of the Salem LeTip chapters last week and was thoroughly fascinated and completely awed by this group of nearly 50 members!  73 tips worth $12,600 were exchange in that week alone!  Plus, there were 7 … count’em 7 guests!  How exciting is THAT?

I want our chapter to have those same opportunities.  And I will need all of your help to get us there.

Creating excitement in a business networking meeting is a challenge.  Not because we don’t get excited about stuff, but we have to keep our purpose in mind … sharing tips, sharing information, growing our businesses.

When you are the GREETER please remember your duties not only include greeting everyone who attends, but to ensure visitors sign the guest book and get a name tag, AND to point folks in the direction of the showboater’s table.

When you are a SHOWBOATER please remember this is your time to shine!  You have an 8′ long table to create a display that not only promotes your business but informs us about it, gets us excited by it.  Be certain you have some swag and information items for us to take to our clients and associates.  I know it can be a pain in the butt to drag a bunch of stuff to the meeting, but how can we get excited by waving a dollar bill as your display?  Don’t be afraid to ask your fellow chapter members to help you come up with ideas and displays.

As a SPEAKER you have our attention for over 10 minutes.  Use that time effectively by having a GREAT presentation planned.  Work in some humor or trivia about your business … give us some selling techniques so we completely understand how we can pitch your business to our contacts.  Also, bring us some materials we can share with those contacts … create a “sales” packet with a dozen cards, a dozen brochures, some swag and give each of us one to take with us.

TIP: If you do bring materials for us be certain to distribute them prior to the start of the meeting or hand them out after the meeting ends; otherwise, if you hand them out during your speech, we’ll be opening packs, brochures, and fiddling with the materials instead of paying attention to YOU (Its human nature.)  … And, you want our attention on you, don’t you?

These recommendations will be even more important as we grow because there will be TWO Greeters, TWO Showboaters, and TWO Speakers during every meeting!  LeTip Bylaws, Article VIII, Section 1, final two sentences …  “Chapters over 20 members will have two showboaters, two greeters, and two speakers.  Chapters that grow past fifty members will have three showboaters, three greeters, and three speakers.”

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