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I'm an alumna of a small local, so I definitely understand the pressure to recruit and keep numbers up.
When I was rush chair, I found the thing that worked best was a personal invitation. Calling or inviting someone to an event in person was so much more effective than fliers, bus cards, or painting the street in front of the student center. A personal connection is free and worth so much more than a ream of hot pink paper from copy services!
Your best recruiters are also outgoing girls with great personalities who are INVOLVED with different orgs on campus. They are going out to different places on campus and making friends who can turn into PNMS who can then turn into sisters. When I was an undergrad, I had sisters who were RAs in two huge freshmen dorms on campus. These two sisters had bubbly, outgoing, great personalities and made friends easily. My point? They invited girls to rush because they talked about the sorority with their residents. Are any of your current sisters active in any other clubs on campus? Do they have friends in these clubs? Invite some of these friends (if they aren't greek) to some events your sorority is sponsoring. Then, when it is time to recruit, these girls will already be familiar with your sisters and your GLO, so inviting them to a rush event will seem like a natural thing to do!
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