Proclaim Your Success –
Multimedia, Newsletters, Press Releases H.I.T.S. List
For more, see Our Nuts and Bolts of Building Membership.
Nuts and Bolts
See Carteret RSP’s Nuts and Bolts of Building Membership
For more see Carteret’s Nuts and Bolts of Building Membership
Human Resources
Motivated by fear of failure and feeling the weight of this mighty responsibility from my beloved mentor Cathy Neagle
My first meeting as president of Carteret RSP employed
Imagery
Develop iconographies: logos, mottos
Harvest a vast treasury of photographs
Resources: Phone camera, PowerPoint, Paint, Paint 3D, Google Photos, free QR code apps
You need dozens and dozens of photos to find the best shots of groups and individuals.
Theme Writing
Use or make templates or patterns for press releases
Use print and broadcast media
Use your website and social media
Use summations for your newsletters
Sample Press Release Template
Headline title of interest
High profile speakers Upcoming meeting
Where and when of high profile speakers the headline event Group photo and where and when
High profile inspirational/devotional
speaker
How reader can learn more about your RSP
Legislative CALL TO
ACTION
Needs Case Community Service
Scholarship How to JOIN contact
High profile keynote Opportunity information
speaker
Share - Send forth your information in emails to the press, hardcopy snail mail, greeting cards, Facebook, website, postcards, business cards, at all public events you attend wearing your local RSP’s name tag. At events before the moderator/presiding officer/MC begins, I distribute literature, cards, and flyers on tables or chairs. Smile and make eye contact! You can always pick up leftovers after people leave to reuse at the next event!
Websites and Social Media Sample
Save the Date Post Card Reminders
are also used as handouts at dinners and events you attend, e.g., political parties, clubs, functions
Build Your Own Website - Free yourself from the TYRANNY of I.T. potentates who CHARGE to do what you can do yourself ! $12 / year is the cost for SquareSpace.
USE TRIAL AND ERROR AND YOU WILL LEARN AND LEARN AND LEARN!
After your first months, you’ll look back at your work and think, ‘Doh! I can make this even better and better and better!”
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Be unafraid if anything crashes and burns. You can build again, better and stronger!
Build Your Own Facebook Account
Like many educators, I was TERRIFIED of Facebook because of its propinquity, but as NCRSP’s 2024 Leadership Series Seven Touches of Membership teaches us, social media is ESSENTIAL as an outreach. Ordinary people use Facebook to research organizations to see standings in the worldwide universe of groups that matter or groups that are obsolete.
Read at this LINK
Our Newsletter Template
Brochure and Public Displays
See this brochure unfold before your eyes with this LINK
Julia contacted the South American photographer Alvaro RP for permission to use this photograph. His only request is that everyone LIKE his amazing FB page
Please like Alvaro RP’s at this LINK
Community Service Scholarships More Benefits: Dues and Bonus Affiliations with membership:
Membership
Contacts for
Information
Our beautiful phone tree chair Ann Hill who corrected our guest legislator during his legislative luncheon speech that she taught school during the 1950’s! I love her! She inspires me so!
High Profile photo: Loyal members, Scholarship Winners, commissioner, mayor,
Our 2023 Scholarship Chair, winners, parents and councilor.
When I desperately called our president two years ago for help, she helped me (a complete stranger!) see brochure component parts using her own RSP’s template
The NCRSP Brochure SlideShow
Download LINK for ORIGINAL and LINK for low-ink design which is also beautiful AND economical
Design your iconography to honor ALL your loyal members.
#1 Original group photograph. #2 Use Photoshop to remove distortion that spreads out sizes of people on the ends of the photo.
#4 Make a 3D image of each person with Paint 3D
#3 Add people who missed the group photo because they arrived late or had to leave early:
#5 Assemble all of the pieces on PowerPoint to arrange figures and insert background and logo. Use PowerPoint tools to sharpen resolutions and change lighting.
ICONOGRAPHY
Use and share-
Cake decoration for a pre-retirement seminar
Design Birthday Postings for Emails and Facebook Posts
Memorialize members with your design work
Make business cards for your officers and chairs with meeting dates and contact information
Make name tags and membership cards. Put your mission and goals on the backs of name tags, especially for guests
Make greeting cards
Sample mail merge template!
Brand your correspondence so that your RSP iconography becomes recognizable, and put stamps on envelopes to encourage GPS donations and membership applications.
Use Mail Merge to address your birthday and greeting
cards to members and allies and
outreach for your RSP
Make letterheads
Brand your letters to your members for PAC or NC Great Public Schools Fund page 2 info for my members
Use the
brag board
to promote
your RSP
Tips for Brag Board LINK
You can make an ARMY of brag boards for all your school facilities
Recognize your Members’ Accomplishments! Certificates, webposts, Facebook posts, email and newsletters
Compile your best Imagery and Marketing for Recognitions Submissions
Service Award LINK
Compile your best Imagery and Marketing for Recognitions Submissions
Web Award LINK
Let your passion fuel your proclamations of achievement, your creativity shape your RSP’s image to the world, and your dedication to improve and learn propel your success.
Push away fear of failure and embrace trial-and-error. If something blows up, be unafraid to start all over again. Together we are strong! YOU WILL SUCCEED!
It’s so sweet to make something you never thought possible and what everyone said was impossible!
Julia Thorn IS A LATE BLOOMER who learned many of her digital skills AFTER age 70.
Why? Because most of the techniques and apps were NOT yet invented!
Resources
✔ Nell Burwell’s Membership Strategy
✔ Carteret RSP’s Nuts and Bolts of Building Membership
✔ Colleen Lanier’s Nuts and Bolts of Membership
✔ Carteret RSP’s Press Releases
✔ Sample Press Release for a Local Mtg, for a story about the State Convention, for a Regional Legislative Luncheon
✔ AARP’s Seven Touches of Membership
✔ Link to make a FREE Google website
✔ Carteret’s ABC’s for a Local Newsletter
✔ Carteret’s Brag Board Tips May 2024
✔ Brochure Template, NCRSP Brochure A, NCRSP B
✔ NCRSP Recognitions Entries for the Greatest Ideas Across the state of North Carolina!
✔ NCRSP Resource Page
✔ NCRSP Website
✔ Avery Design LINK
✔ Flowcode LINK to make QR code.