Added Bonus for Talk Up Toastmasters!

From: Roger Brown
Subject: Talk Up Toastmasters!

Talk Up Toastmasters! - Add 5 New Members in February / March

http://www.district53toastmasters.org/marketing.html

Do Toastmasters Like to Talk?

During the Talk Up Toastmasters! membership contest, encourage your club members to invite as many guests as possible to your regular club meetings. Consider conducting a special guest meeting or open house. That is, conduct a regular meeting, but also specifically discuss the benefits Toastmasters members receive as they participate in the program.

Add five new, dual or reinstated Toastmaster members to your roster between February 1 and March 31, to receive a special Talk Up Toastmasters! ribbon to display on your clubs banner.

The club will also earn a choice of one module from The Better Speaker Series, The Successful Club Series or The Leadership Excellence Series.

Membership applications and payment for members who join between February 1 - March 31, must be received at World Headquarters or online no later than March 31. Each members join date as listed on the application must be no later than March. Transfer

and charter members do not count for credit. There is no need to apply for this award. Your club is automatically entered when the first new member application is received in February.

Better Speaker Series

http://www.toastmasters.org/store/subcategory.asp?SubCategoryID=3

The Successful Club Series

http://www.toastmasters.org/store/subcategory.asp?SubCategoryID=4

The Leadership Excellence Series

http://www.toastmasters.org/store/subcategory.asp?SubCategoryID=61

In February and March 2006, seven Clubs in District 53 (only 5% of the District) earned a
Talk up Toastmasters! ribbon. Can we do better in 2007 ?

Fwd: District Dollars for you!

From: Marv Cross
Date: Jan 18, 2007 2:13 PM
Subject: RE: FW: District Dollars for you!
Fellow Division D Toastmasters! Your club can win some D53 District Dollars! Like this!

The blurb on the ten-spot is just one way to earn the bucks!




District 53 will also give a $50(yes, that is fifty) bookstore credit to every club that achieves at least Distinguished Club status by April 30th!

What that means in a nutshell is that, if your club achieves at least five DCP points by April 30th and shows either charter membership (20 or more members) or a net gain of five (five more than the "base" on record for your club last July 1) on the TI reports, your club gets the District Dollars!

Remember that renewals are due April 1st so don't forget to begin collecting dues in March and submit them on time (part of a DCP point).

Your membership and DCP numbers are reflected on your club's DCP report on the Toastmasters website ( http://www.toastmasters.org/).

Imagine what $50 or $60 worth of bookstore materials (like additional Successful Club, Leadership Excellence, or Better Speaker modules or some new CL books or nifty little "golden gavels" to award to your members) could do for your club!

So, put out the posters, spread the word, and make some dollars for your club's library and members!

Take advantage of your club's contests (the Tall Tales and International Speech Contests) to spark additional interest since they need to be complete by March 17th anyway.

Let's grab some of those District Dollars and put them back into our club's and member's (yes, that means you too) goals! Please forward this to all of your members. As always, if you have any questions, feel free to contact your Area Governor, your Division Governor, even your Lieutenant Governor of Marketing, Karin von Kaenel.

Thanks and good luck!

Marv
Marv Cross, ACB/OCL
Division D Governor