PR for speaking clubs in Toastmasters International

 |Mentors can look for members.

Hold a monthly party open to all members before or after the committee meeting, best afterwards?

Meet guests in advance of the meeting for coffee and show them the venue and meet up with a couple more committee members.

At the meeting pair each guest with a buddy.

Walk through the venue and check any visitor can find you easily with direction signs, or a map. You can do a video of yourself walking to the venue door from nearest station.

Link up to professionals on LinkedIn. 

PR can write up all events such as contest, members gaining ribbons. on Facebook and other media.

Google your club and see what people find.

Have new PR every new week.

Give newcomers a role and a comittee role.

Have each committee member introduce their role and what they can do for members and guests and meetings.

Make a photo from a club picture and add an AI picture of a scared guest. Use this in Canva to create a poster or leaflet.

Toastmasters shows Pr pictures of young professional business people at a board room desk in front of a whiteboard. Your club could be  retired people, middle aged, or a gavel club for students. Members could be all white, all black, all Indian all Chinese, all Muslim, all Christian, all Israeli. On stage at contests, wearing sarees, judges with clipboards, online with children and cats. Some clubs are formal in hotels. Others are fun in fancy dress.

Get potential members involved in roles, or committee roles. Get them to shadow a committee member and give a speech on that. 

Get a committee member to give a speech on committee roles.

The breakout room leader should ask each person to share verbally or in writing in a chat their best success, and the thing they need help with. Plus any comment on any other person's ideas.

PR can be for the TM brand, the local club, to help a lonely, shy individual. Maybe they want to hear training, or get free tea and biscuits. Speak on radio and TV, in newspapers, magazines.

Interview guest at first meeting, talking about how shy they feel, and compare that at the end of the year to show their progress.