Losing members?

[JPBlacksmiths]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

We've never had a drop that severe, but there's always some. We've found that the higher you set the expectations in the fall, the fewer you lose at the first of the year. This fall, we met Mondays and Thursdays for 2-1/2 hours and alternate Saturdays for 6 hours. Come build season, we'll add Tuesdays and go to every Saturday. The sessions will also get longer, especially around the middle of the build. We met a similar amount last fall, and had less than 20% dropout during build season, and a larger percentage "step up" their commitment beyond the expected minimums.

Maybe you doing that alternate saturday is the key. We meet monday and friday for 2 1/2 hours, but come build season we meet every single day and the meetings go until we finish what we were doing that day, or until we get to a point were we can pick up where we left off the next day.