Quote:
Originally Posted by omeganu
Thanks for the input! I appreciate the feedback-
|
Hi, and just to add a little bit to Ree's excellent feedback, I checked out your site and materials, it's all very interesting and your thoroughness is impressive (though I completely agree that having your officer materials available on a retail site is risky)...
But the message that is obviously the mainstay of the group right now is "don't JOIN a fraternity, start one." Which I certainly get as a "hook" to those interested in starting a colony. But what kind of follow-up information/support is there for the guys that start the colony who then need to go recruit and convince OTHER guys that they SHOULD "just join" a fraternity, in this case, Omega Nu Alpha? At a certain point, the group will be "just another fraternity" for other people to "join". So what's the group's distinguishing characteristics at that juncture? Why would someone want to join an existing colony/chapter of ONA versus other houses on campus? If the message coming out of the main website remains that it's not a good idea to "join" a fraternity, how will the ONA chapters grow?
Just something to think about and be ready to support your colonies through in the future. Continued success, though, starting something from the ground-up is never easy and you certainly have put a lot of work into it!