Need Publicity Ideas

AOX81 · #1 07-11-2002, 09:56 AM

Greek Life at our school has always been rather small. Rush/recruitment tables do not work, tables at orientation and the student organization fair do not work, and banners and flyers do not work. Nobody reads the school newspaper so that would be a waste of time. Last semester we did freshmen mailings and it seems like they did not work either!!

I'm trying to think of some new ideas so Greek Life can be more visual...any suggestions?

I thought it would be kind of neat if we held a sisterhood event before rush started and everyone decorated the back windows of their cars with GO GREEK...or something along that line.

I know sidewalk chalk has been used in the past but I don't know if it was useful or not.

HELP!

shsusle · #2 07-17-2002, 02:55 PM

yikes i thought it was bad at my school. we are doing a mailing for the first time to all the freshmen girls, so hopefully that will work out for us.

i'm so sorry to hear you're having a rought time. The only other thing that we try to do, is each of the members must bring in at least one girl. Meaning each member has to invite someone she knows or someone she recruits and she has to go thru the entire rush, and if she does, we take $$ off her dues. We have also discussed penalizing those who didn't bring in one girl, but that never got voted through. But either way it's a start --- we have gotten a few girls that way :-) hope this helps

Eirene_DGP · #3 07-18-2002, 03:39 AM

Our school does an ice cream social at the start of the semester. I think that is a good idea.

chideltjen · #4 07-24-2002, 05:33 PM

hmmm... i don't know how your school works and all but in the beginning of the Fall semester, our school has a large orientation for all new students. This semester we really need the girls so a lot of our girls are going to be orientation leaders so we can promote ourselves. Our booth is also going to be out there. The other benefit about being local is our PHC doesn't allow us to do Formal Recruitment with them so we can advertise ourselves in anyway possible while PHC has to advertise as a whole (meaning we can wear our letters and the nationals can't etc)
Another way is referrals. A lot of our girls come out because a friend of a friend of someone's cousin told them about us. We are gonna get a lot of girls this semester via that way. Another suggestion: If you have a lot of younger girls in your sorority, they will probably find more freshman in their classes than say a ready to graduate senior. Always talk to PNMs first, get to know them and THEN ask them if they are interested in a sorority. Remembering their names and small details about them is also a good idea. (Where they are from, major, etc.)
But I agree, having a booth out in the quad area with 50 girls behind it won't really help... it just makes it more intimidating honestly.
Good luck.