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Mike Melito Loyal user 263 Posts |
I am curious asking the other SYM clubs this question. I am the president of the Kansas City assembly and I would love to see the club grow. Does anyone have any tips of something they did that caused a growth in the club. I am looking for ideas.
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Ethan the emazing Elite user anywhere but here USA 454 Posts |
Have a website made, and get it posted on the SYM website. Put up a flyer in the local school, get your website listed on google.
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Mike Melito Loyal user 263 Posts |
Well we got 2 of 3 so far.
http://www.sym9.com and it's google-able too!! |
Skip Way Inner circle 3771 Posts |
Your members are your best promotion. T-shirts and polo shirts with the logo imprinted or embroidered and worn on meeting nights will attract attention. Host a magic stage for your local festivals. Invite-a-Friend showcase nights can bring in interested prospective members. A magical Open House showcase with the appropriate news coverage can do wonders.
Many high schools give a survey to students at the beginning of each year to gauge interest in various extracurricular activities offered throughout the community such as Scouting, Junior Achievement, Boy's Clubs, intramural sports, etc. Check with your school system to have your chapter added to the survey. If your school system doesn't provide this service touch base with other youth groups in the city and work together to start one. In the meantime, compile the data from other groups and encourage your local chamber of commerce to offer it through the schools, libraries and churches. Contact your local TV, Radio and Print media with a well-written feature press release promoting the program. Prep your best performers and public speakers for media interviews with scripts and point-papers promoting the program. Ask your local cable access channel to help you produce a history of magic program for airing. Check with the Ring members to see what networking connections may already exist for support in these areas. Create generic group business cards for the chapter that members can write their names on and distribute to interested parties. Create a trifold pamphlet and display it at your local Brick & mortar magic shop. Ask the managers of local toy stores that sell magic sets to display the pamphlets on the shelves next to the sets. It might help them sell more sets if parents know there's some place their kids can go to learn to use them. National Magic Week is the last week in October. If you have a local brick & mortar magic shop, coordinate a Magic Week Open House with them. Have your members on hand to demonstrate, answer questions and promote magic. Set up a Magic Week display at the main library or local mall. Sponsor a fiction & nonfiction "Magic Shelf" at the main library branch, bookstore or high school/community college libraries. Set up displays, live performances, lectures, open house lessons...get the word out and those who are looking for you will come! Set up a showcase in a local art theater, community college or high school auditorium, community rec center - any place with a stage and seating that might let you perform a free or for a low fee. A neighboring city's main library has a beautiful auditorium that we've used for an annual Toys for Tots showcase.
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Mike Melito Loyal user 263 Posts |
Well I guess that covers it.
Thanks so much Skip. We've done some of those but I think you have some other great ideas!! |
magic4u02 Eternal Order Philadelphia, PA 15110 Posts |
Hi. I am the co-leader of SYM Assembly 96 in Philadelphia. My other co-leader is Arlen Solomon (SAM Regional VP of Mid-Atlantic States). Together we have been running our SYM assembly for well over 14 years now and every year we have seen growth. We are now tied as the largest SYM assembly in the SAM and are very proud of that fact and the hard work everyone does to promote what we do.
One of the biggest things we do is provide as many opportunities to perform shows in and around our area. The more chances we give the members to perform, the better they become and the more chance we have of getting our name out there in the community. It works wonderfully and there are so many groups and organization that are more than eager to have your SYM kids perform for them. Another great asset for promotion of your club is to get the SYM assembly and it's meeting nights in as many community and weekend section of newspapers as you can. All of these are free and costs your club nothing to do. Every paper and community paper has a section in it for events or things of interest that the papers will run for free that informs the community of interesting events that they may be intersted in. Place your sub and meeting nights in as many of these papers as you can. It makes a huge difference. On the same notion as above, you also have access to placing your club's information on what we refer to as free community online calendars. These are online websites in communities that have a calendar of events section. They are free to post your club's information to and there are literally hundreds of them out there. You can find them with a simple google search and within a few hours have your information listed on many of them and get your club's information out there. Another great thing we do is to tie in and work with area community recreation centers. These centers are always looking for events and things of interest that they can publicize to their community. Having and offering magic teaching through the SYM is something many of them have never seen and are very much interested in. They can get your information out to their community in their mailings. Simply go to them and ask them about it and find out what they can do for you. It is amazing what you can do through the power of "asking". There are a lot more methods we use, but I will leave it at this for now and try and post back more later on. I hope this is of some help. Please let me know if there are any questions or if I can help you in any way to promote SYM growth. I strongly believe in the SYM and work both on a local and National level with the SYM. People need to be aware that the future of magic lies in the hands of our children and young SYM members. I seek to encurage and empower them through magic. Kyle
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Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
Re: http://www.sym9.com Your Website's list of "Upcoming Assembly Events" only shows past events, stopping at August, 2007. That tells me no one is updating it on a regular basis. You can't just put up an events page and leave it. Once an event has passed, either link it to a page of photos showing what went on at the event, or drop it. A photos page will show others what you did and the fun you had doing it, and will encourage others to join in. But if the schedule is for "upcoming events" you'd better have listed at least the event that is happening NEXT, if not a whole bunch of future events.
Not to be picky, but Kyle, you should check your "Updated" web site as well. Did the world end last August and no one told me about it?
Professor Spellbinder
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magic4u02 Eternal Order Philadelphia, PA 15110 Posts |
Spellbinder:
You are correct. However, we have a new site. The new site has been moved to a new location and new URL address. The new site is being updated and in the process of taking over the old one (replacing it). It should give us more information and allow for more frequent updates. Thanks for letting us know though. It is greatly appreciated. Kyle
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