Ideas for Quilt Guild Open House/Membership Drive
#21
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Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Dakotas
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I joined QG 6 months ago. The 2 members I know had “duties” so don’t sit. I discovered members are happy to have you sit with them when I asked permission, but when they saw other friends, they moved and let me sit alone. This happened two months before I found members that included me & now I look forward to it, but before I was tempted to quit. I believe I look “normal” and don’t have hygiene problems, it’s just that people can be rude and not even know it. I wasn’t brought up that way.
#22
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 327
"Put flyers with info in waiting rooms. The hospital waiting rooms are good. I take our stack of quilt magazines left on the free table to hospital waiting areas with flyers about our guild. We get lots of visitors and some new members from looking at the quilt pictures and then seeing where they can go to learn how to make one. "
Why not put a large address sized sticker on the magazine with meeting address & time, Facebook page info etc. People may lose a flyer but take a magazine home and have time later to consider attending (even if it's after the Open House)
Why not put a large address sized sticker on the magazine with meeting address & time, Facebook page info etc. People may lose a flyer but take a magazine home and have time later to consider attending (even if it's after the Open House)
#23
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 327
I joined QG 6 months ago. The 2 members I know had “duties” so don’t sit. I discovered members are happy to have you sit with them when I asked permission, but when they saw other friends, they moved and let me sit alone. This happened two months before I found members that included me & now I look forward to it, but before I was tempted to quit. I believe I look “normal” and don’t have hygiene problems, it’s just that people can be rude and not even know it. I wasn’t brought up that way.
#24
I believe the way to get friends in a guild is to join a small group or bee. There are also possibilities in community sews. It is just easier to get comfortable with people when you are working together or visiting in small groups. At a guild meeting there isn't much social time - with the business meeting, show & tell, speaker - I consider the guild meetings more like going somewhere to hear a speaker. No excuse for anyone being rude though.
#25
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: West Texas
Posts: 2,073
As far as new member assimilation goes, I think the best way is to invite the new person to participate in whatever charity work sessions that you have regularly. We put that info in the new member packet, plus make personal invitation. The new member may not want to work in that group forever, but there is time and opportunity to visit and get to know people.
Another effective thing to do is to introduce new members to other new members or members who have been there a few months. They will confide in each other and not feel stupid asking each other about things they don't understand or just heard, but have no clue about.
Another effective thing to do is to introduce new members to other new members or members who have been there a few months. They will confide in each other and not feel stupid asking each other about things they don't understand or just heard, but have no clue about.
#26
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Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 327
As far as new member assimilation goes, I think the best way is to invite the new person to participate in whatever charity work sessions that you have regularly. We put that info in the new member packet, plus make personal invitation. The new member may not want to work in that group forever, but there is time and opportunity to visit and get to know people.
Another effective thing to do is to introduce new members to other new members or members who have been there a few months. They will confide in each other and not feel stupid asking each other about things they don't understand or just heard, but have no clue about.
Another effective thing to do is to introduce new members to other new members or members who have been there a few months. They will confide in each other and not feel stupid asking each other about things they don't understand or just heard, but have no clue about.
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