Help with COB issues.

[crescent&pearls]

I'm not an expert either but getting your chapter to total is a two pronged attack- recruiting new members AND retaining the members you already have. Who would want to be a part of a group that fined them for not dropping everything to do a constant stream of COB "events'?

You need to incorporate recruiting new members into the fun things you're already doing as a chapter. The best part of informal recruitment is that you can really show pnms what it's like to be a part of your organization. If there are five or six of you that always go to Taco Tuesday together, that's a COB event, if you bring along a PNM.

Maybe you need to rethink your strategy of meeting the weekly requirement of having a structured event vs how many pnms did you contact this week. Something like the it takes 14 sales calls before you actually make a sale mentality. Don't have enough pnms in your pool? Encourage every chapter member to join one new campus org this semester and invite at least one woman they meet there to come to one of your chapter's activities.

The more you put yourselves out there on your campus in a positive way, and work on making membership in your chapter the best experience it can possibly be, the more women will want to check out what you're doing and either consider joining themselves or say good things about you to others who might just be your next new sister!

[rushchair799]

Thank you all so much for all of your advice! I'll definitely read through it all again and take it all to heart! I just wanted to clarify one thing.

Originally Posted by crescent&pearls

Maybe you need to rethink your strategy of meeting the weekly requirement of having a structured event vs how many pnms did you contact this week. Something like the it takes 14 sales calls before you actually make a sale mentality.

For this, it's not a requirement to attend a COB event each week, it's actually more along the lines of what you said about meeting PNM's - it's hard to explain without giving away the chapter (to the chapter members, that is), but it's basically a list of several things they can do each week, ranging from simply being seen on campus (by another sister) wearing her letters, meeting a new girl in class, inviting her over for (activity), all the way to actually extending her a bid (but obviously not to somebody we just met!!). It is NOT difficult at all, which is why I'm so amazed people are refusing to do it. We do have some shyer women in the chapter, which is why we put in options to attend campus events in letters or be seen on campus in letters by another sister, because that's great PR right there which we also need around campus.