Members Can Pay FULL YEAR DUES

If your club wants to offer members to pay their dues for a full year, you can do it! Contact Toastmasters international with the member's name and number, and they will turn on the web functionality let you pay that member's full-year of dues.

Membership Building, Retention Webinars

Naomi Lewis announced that she's set up a series of webinars with a club membership building expert. Lance Miller is a DTM and 2005 World Champion of Public Speaking.

All webinars are on Monday evenings at 8pm.

Make sure someone from your club leadership team can attend.

• October 6 : Leadership for a Championship Club
• January 5 : Building a Championship Club
• April 6 : How to Promote and Market a Club

District Participation Challenge

The Lt. Gov. Ed. is running a contest from July 1^st until October 31^st to encourage club members to take advantage of every speaking opportunity available. ("Non-traditional" prizes to the top three TM will be awarded at conference.) TM's will get opts for speeches, 2 for leadership roles, and 25 for completed manuals. 

Email LGET(a)District66.org with title of speech or leadership project, date, club and area. For every speech or leadership manual completed, email name of the manual, date, club and area (has to be submitted to TI to be valid).

Fall Conference Location, Dates Set!

The Fall conference will be November 7th & 8th in Roanoke, VA. Early bird hotel rates are $89.00 per room and $84.00 per room for 5 or more members attending. Please share the district 66 website with your club (http://district66.org/conference.jsp), and more details will be forthcoming.

Sept. 3 Area Conference Call Minutes

With dues coming due in the next month, we discussed some of the things we can do to retain members. Here are some of the things call participants mentioned they're doing to support member retention:

• direct contact (phone calls, emails) with members through the VPM or mentors. 
• sending around a questionnaire to ask members about their education goals. 
• special meetings and events to bring in new members and add value to existing ones. 
• walking members through a process to set-up their own 6-month goal plans, which could be used by VPE throughout the 6 months to keep up with the member, and which can be referenced at the next dues period to help the member see their benefits/accomplishments. 

We ended on this food for thought:
All of our clubs are facing similar retention and membership building issues.

What can we as an area do to pool resources, time to help everyone tackle this issue of membership retention?

In time for the October 8th call, think about challenges, questions, or ideas that we as an area might be able to work on.

Division D Contest Announced

Division D Contest
Saturday, October 18
Regent University (Virginia Beach)
2-4pm Winners from the Area 42 Contests will advance to the Division level on this date. All are invited to be audience members, and we are also looking for Toastmasters to volunteer to help with ballot counting, timing, judging, and other roles. Contact your Area Governor if you're interested in helping out.

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