How To Make The Club Grow Quickly

A quickly built Club has energized, interested and excited members, and that translates into more referrals. Let the My Referral Club web site do the selling for you. Follow these steps and watch your new Club grow to 20, 30 or more members in a very short time.

Step one: Contact My Referral Club, LLC and let us know you are planning to start a new Club and want to get started. We want to talk with you and answer questions you will have. Before calling us please spend some time roaming through this "I'm Interested In Starting A Club" section and visit the Sample Club to see all of the ways we have designed My Referral Club to make operating a Club easy and effective.

Step two: After you have talked with us and are ready to start your Club, we will ask you to make a commitment and will send you a link to our registration page where you can go through the on-line application.

Step three: Once you are registered, we will set up your local Club for you. You will need to provide us with at least a temporary name. Now you will have an actual Club that all potential members will be able to access. There are a few pages you will need to update to reflect your Club's name/location, and you will want to edit your individual home page and up-load your picture. We will send you some high quality brochures that can be used to attract people to your Club.

Step four: Next, you will talk directly about the idea of starting a My Referral Club with a few of your business friends who you think would be interested. Give them the web address and ask them to look through the web site. Share your vision of how joining My Referral Club will greatly help their businesses and how the "risk vs. reward" of joining a Club is completely directed at their success. Give them additional brochures if they plan on attracting other initial members.

Step five: When you get 3 to 5 interested people, hold an informal "core group" meeting. Discuss the possibility of the new Club, and list other people the group would like to have as part of an expanded core group. Make copies of the Officers Duties available and review them. Schedule another meeting the next week with your new core group. At this time, those who see the potential of the Club should agree to join and you will need to send them a registration page (it takes just a few clicks on the Vote For New Members page). This starts building your momentum, which is so important when starting a new Club.

Step six: Your second meeting will include somewhere between four and a dozen people, perhaps more. This will be the meeting where you make some important decisions:

1. Determine where and when to hold your new Club's first official meeting. We recommend choosing a date two weeks away to allow time for the core group to speak with and invite business friends and acquaintances to the meeting.

2. Decide who will be your new Club's President, VP, and Membership Director. The other leadership positions can be added as the Club grows. Have them review their responsibilities. Update the Club Officers page of your new Club.

3. Determine where to hold your next meeting. While you're still a small group it could be at a Starbucks, a hotel lobby, a home, or your company's meeting room.

4. People who decide to become members of your new Club should complete the registration process. This will show that the new Club has a lot of activity and is off to a good start.

5. Have copies of the Member Categories list available. Use it as a guide to fill in as many categories as possible with people your group thinks would be interested. Make sure that everyone leaves the meeting with his/her list of people to contact. Give each person some of the My Referral Club brochures to help attact new members to meetings.

When the core group members first discusses My Referral Club with their friends and business acquaintances, these prospects should be told that all of the members of the core group are also talking with other prospective members in the same business category, and that only one person is allowed per category. Build a sense of urgency.

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