Hey jayd, basically we try to have people working on broad outreach (events, social media, media coverage, chapters) and then someone else working on taking the emails and names we get, and contacting people individually to ask them to become members. This often involves lengthy email exchanges to discuss their reservations. We have found persistence works well, and doesn’t bother almost anyone, as people are more often procrastinating than refusing.
Basically, before mid-2013 we were not systematically doing this personal follow-up, so it is no surprise we weren’t getting many people to sign on the dotted line.
Hey jayd, basically we try to have people working on broad outreach (events, social media, media coverage, chapters) and then someone else working on taking the emails and names we get, and contacting people individually to ask them to become members. This often involves lengthy email exchanges to discuss their reservations. We have found persistence works well, and doesn’t bother almost anyone, as people are more often procrastinating than refusing.
Basically, before mid-2013 we were not systematically doing this personal follow-up, so it is no surprise we weren’t getting many people to sign on the dotted line.