Boost Club Membership and Member Communications
You know you might be missing out on new members due to the cost involved in promoting your club within your community. You'd like to be able to get articles in the local papers about how good your club is, what you do or to simply encourage others to join your hobby group. There is so much you could be sharing with everyday NZ'ers so that they better understand your sport or hobby, your successes or why they should choose your club to join. Media releases need to be very well crafted and you just don't have the time. You may even sometimes spend money on printed brochures that are expensive and inflexible, to get your message out to the general public.
You might sometimes find it difficult to announce cancellations and team managers or club co-ordinators spend too much time ringing round when they have urgent information such as last minute venue changes or training times. Save everyone time by endorsing this as one of the key avenues through which vital, urgent information is communicated to members.
When you, or any of your volunteers or members, register and create a free organisation account with iworldpeople, all of this information can be published for free.
You are in control and can publish what and when you want to:
- Your next fundraising drive
- Call for volunteers
- Your next event
- Deadlines for registrations
- Club open days
- After the event, post an article about it, with pictures
- Advertise your school holiday programmes
- Announce to the entire community an exciting new sports coach who has just arrived
- Post a notice about last minute changes to venues or times
Thousands of New Zealanders use the internet to search for news and for information about their local communities. When they read what's on their local iworldpeople site, they will read your item.
You will be able to save the time and angst of "crafting" a carefully worded press release that you hope the media will find newsworthy enough. You can publish snippets of information or longer articles, in a chatty, conversational style. You will be able to raise awareness with the general public for your group, save time in the process and it won't cost you a cent!
You may be feeling that you don't have the writing ability to publish items onto the site. All of the news, events, opinions and articles on iworldpeople are written by ordinary New Zealanders from all walks of life, not paid journalists, not trained writers. Many of the people publishing to the site were a bit nervous of doing so at the beginning too but they soon found that it didn't matter if what they wrote wasn't perfect and it is exciting and worthwhile to be able to communicate their message to the public. You can publish snippets of information or longer articles in a chatty and conversational style. Read customer testimonials.
You may be feeling that you don't have the time to create and publish your own news, events, notices or articles. Many of the people publishing onto the site thought it would be too time consuming at first too. What they found was that it is as simple as filling in a form. In fact once you have set up your registration and account it is as quick as typing an email. It will save the frustrating and time consuming task of calling around, and of knowing that people forget to tell you when they change their email address. Read customer testimonials.
Whether you are at home or at work, as long as you have an internet connection you can quickly and easily publish information onto iworldpeople.
When you create an item to publish, you can save it first and make changes it to before you publish it, you can even make changes to it once it is published, or take it down altogether. So, YOU are in control!
iworldpeople is a cutting edge internet site, built with reputable technology by a reputable organization. It is free to publish because local businesses pay a small fee to advertise and have a WebPage
Local Business Sponsorship
A lot of local community based businesses these days like to be associated with good causes that the people in their communities connect with, so that they can strengthen those customer relationships and win new customers.
Do you have an existing local business sponsor now? If so, when they buy a WebPage with iworldpeople, they can nominate you at no extra cost, to have a free WebPage. On their WebPage there is a place, for you, to place a message or advertisement that links back to your WebPage and vice versa. How Message Links Work.
Classified Advertising
If your club has things to sell, but prefers to keep it local to save on delivery costs, use the classifieds section to sell to your community and neighbouring communities. Free to clubs and organizations, businesses pay a small fee.
Your WebPage
Everyone is probably telling you that you need a website, that it is the way of the future. But it is expensive, there are hundreds of web site specialists out there all telling you how and what you should do and you don't have the time to really investigate it. Besides, your funding is precious and you don't need to better inform and promote to the whole wide world, just your current members prospective members.
An iworldpeople WebPage takes the cost and complication out of getting a website and you don't need any special technical skills or have any extra hidden costs.
If you don't have a business sponsor, the WebPage will cost $150+GST per year, so it is a simple and budget conscious way to get your club on the web- -no fancy websites or search engines required and at the same time you are making yourself a part of the local online community.
When you register with us and create an account, it is easy to then create your own WebPage. See example club WebPage. Read customer testimonials.
If you'd like a second opinion on the WebPage you have created, before you publish it, you can email what you have typed to Karen and she will review it for you and make helpful suggestions or you can email your Community Site Leader for assistance.
Register now. We look forward to helping your group grow!