Getting Them To Know You

[Jim Harbison]

Follow some of these SIMPLE ideas-------------
1- You must have a parade day in your town .....set a table up with raffle baskets and show the robot off......do stuff with it also .$1.00 for 1 minute at the control use a digital kitchen timer and bang on a big bell for dramatic effect and to draw attention to your exibit .We made over 1,300 bux and scrounged everything in the raffle baskets.Now 15,000 peeps that attended the event know us.
2-Call a PR or ad company........ they will jump at the chance to work for you.They will write newspaper articles for you.Tell them to write one that shows the community the club but the objctive in the article is to find a sugar daddy to be a big contributor ......they know how to flavor the article .....it worked for us.
3- Have a vid made of your club ......a good one ......call the photogs in your town and tell them " we will give you raw footage can you edit it into a 10 minute video" add some cool music.Then take it to the TV station,Rotary club,VFW ,school board (ask why you are not being funded because you dont wear a jock) how much did they spend on sports in your school and how much on your club??Bring the vid and your bot with lots of students.Do a simple presentationMake a summary chart up showing your expenses.
4- Ask a news reporter to visit your club while you are building your bot or take pics and write the copy and give it to them.We do that 6x a yr.
5- Go read the stuff i posted in FUNDRAISING
6- Print all of these ideas out and pass them out at the next meeting and assign peeps to get the job done.This is not rocket science........you can do it .

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jim