Promoting volunteer events
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Tips for promoting your event
- Use the methods of broadcasting at your disposal to promote your volunteer event and maximize attendance. Send out a blast email to all of your supporters, or just to your volunteers, to make sure everyone knows about the event. Face-tweet (update your Facebook staus and tweet simultaneously), and be sure to include a link to your event page so that people can RSVP.
- Link your event to Facebook, and make it public, this will make it even easier for your volunteers to invite their friends. New supporters who RSVP for your event on Facebook will be automatically added to your supporter database.
- Call your volunteers! The best way to get people to an event is by asking them in person. Keep careful records of your conversations by logging contacts, leaving notes, and RSVPing people right from their profile page in the control panel.
- After the event, keep track of who attended and thank them so that they come back next time.
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