Bylaw Boosters appear every week and are meant to help you know and understand more about LeTip International. Feel free to contact ANY board member if you have questions about bylaws and their impact. If you do NOT have a copy of the bylaws please contact me immediately.

BYLAW BOOSTER #2

BYLAWS: ARTICLE IV: Section 1: Subsection C

“If I or my alternate miss two (2) consecutive unexcused meetings or four (4) meetings in a calendar quarter, excused or not, membership will be terminated. A member arriving late or leaving early at a meeting will not be tolerated, and for attendance purposes will count as an excused meeting for calendar quarter attendance.”

TIP: If you know you are not going to be able to attend any of our chapter’s meetings please call us at 503-972-7993 as soon as possible. If there are certain unavoidable reasons for needing to leave early please inform the President or Secretary before the start of the meeting.

TIP 2: To avoid arriving late, consider arriving EARLY! The board, the greeter and the showboater are requested to arrive at 6:30 am to prepare. So … come on down and join us … do some early networking!

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“Defeat is a state of mind. No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality. To me, defeat in anything is merely temporary, and its punishment is but an urge for me to greater effort to achieve my goal. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.”

Bruce Lee
1940-1973, Martial Artist, Actor and Author

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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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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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