Effective Dorm Storming

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Stay and talk with them as long as possible... Just running through rooms, "blah blah blah our fraternity... blah blah" simply serves to annoy people.

You have to get people to really understand what fraternity is, and that you really care about answering their questions, etc. You have to spend time with them. Recruit.

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1. First draw out a floor plan of the dorm and each floor in it.

2. Make a "dorm storm form" which has
fields for: "dorm name" and "floor."
then have seperate sections for each room (Mine have 3 sections) (3 sections= 3 rooms).

Each one of these sections should have the following fields:
"Room #"
"Extension"
"Name"
"Cell Phone"
"Email"
"Notes on this person" (ie: "very interested, or "Doesn't want anything to do with "frats').

"Roomate name"
"Cell",
"Email",
"Notes on roomate"

3. Take a team of 4 brothers (you can have multiple teams), each brother has a certain position.

"note taker"
Takes notes on the dorm storm forms, gathers all information. Pick someone quiet, and very organized: this person hardly ever talks, never comes in the room, he just stands out side and takes notes and jots down important info.

"talker 1"
"talker 2"
These people do all the talking, ask for the phone numbers explain things, etc. these people should be really outgoing.

The fourth person is there for supervision. He carries rush schedules to hand out and makes sure the brothers are going to all the rooms in order.

After you're done with a floor all the information should be compiled into an MS Access database.

Floors that have been covered should be noted in red on the floor plans you made in step one. These should be placed on a wall in the house so that brothers dont do floors twice...

In addition, all rooms in which no one was home should be made note of in green on the floor plans.

This is how I do things, its worked pretty well.
-Tony

Originally posted by Pi Kapp 142
What works at your school in terms of dorm storming? Do you just grap as many people as possibie and take themto the event or do you spend time in their rooms talking to them about the fraternity? What else do you do to get peole to come out?