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I empathize with you. it's hard getting numbers. and i know they have different expectations of each chapter...they are fine that our chapter has been hovering around 10 members...although they'd love to see us at 25. A few years ago they shut down a chapter that had around 30 sisters (so i heard) because they were not competitive on campus...like every other group had around 100 members.
Stick to the Vision. make friends in your classes and invite them out, not necessarily to an info meeting. if you're having a sisterhood, ask a friend, or philanthropy or fundraiser. My chapter has even decided that informal meetings can be used as recruitment tools. Get girls interested and then see what happens.
do keep quality in mind, because if you go for numbers you'll just end up with a lot of disaffiliations or unenthusiastic members.
Do ask for help...maybe not everyone is good at giving advice, but some ppl are....my advisor is awesome, but sometimes we feel she is on national's side on certain issues. If you're unhappy with your consultant demand a second visit. We did the first year i was in(actually I was a new member when the first consultant came) the chapter was quite unhappy with her performance so we received a second visit from a different consultant.
invite alum out when possible...i know my chapter doesn't always do that bcuz some alum seem to give more negative criticism than constructive advice, but there's always some that help out.
I really don't know what else to say but be positive, even about National. others can read what we are writing here. just think, some groups PAY their national personnel, ours are volunteering their time.
[btw, my friend spoke to Laura W of CO and she mentioned how she just got finished paper work from 1997!(CO had some bad office workers, but now they have Laura!)]
also, find out which sister is good at sweet-talking...that'll help speed things up.
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