About this page,
In the summer of 2007, I gave three talks on building membership in organizations. After each of these talks, people came up to me and asked how they could find more information on building vibrant membership orientated organizations. I had to look at each one of these people and say, “I don’t know. My talks were put together from my own experiences, observations, and collection of disparaging resources.”
I felt bad that I was unable to point them to one resource that gave tips, tutorials, and articles on how to build a killer membership base. This blog was a response to those who asked for resources, articles, and tips on how to meet and attract members to any organization.
This blog is about one thing, building a diverse membership for your group, church, non-profit, or network marketing business. It is based on one guiding principle: that your membership is diverse, busy, and hard to reach so you need to try a lot of different tactics until something works.
I hope that this blog will provide you the inspiration and tactics you need to build your membership.
Thank you for taking the time to read my blog. I sincerely hope that you are able to find the resources that will help you grow your membership.
About the Blog Owner, Chris Elliott
Chris Elliott has served in operational, analytical and leadership roles in supply chain and international non-profit organizations his entire professional career. Having an unshakable habit of lifelong learning, Chris enjoys sharing his accumulated knowledge with others through his numerous public speaking appearances, workshops, consulting assignments, and one on one coaching sessions.
Chris holds both a Bachelors degree in Materials Science and Engineering and a Master of Business Logistics Engineering from the Ohio State University. Due to his formal and informal education, Chris has worked on projects developing mathematical models for supply chain and business problems, performed enterprise scale data analysis, and produced financial analysis of business operations. He has also served on and led many project teams to increase efficiency, lower costs, and develop state of the art processes and technology solutions.
Holding leadership positions with both Toastmasters International and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, Chris has been devoted to mentoring others, using technology to drive membership growth, and fostering an environment of focused education to serve the supply chain, speaking, and personal growth communities.
Being completely immersed in technology since he was 6, Chris was an early user of BBS, ftp, telnet, and gopher. When he was 13, he was developing web pages, managing servers, and continuing to learn more about technology everyday. Now Chris personally uses and helps people implement web pages utilizing the latest in Blogs, Joomla! CMS, and other database content management and delivery systems.
Please feel free to contact Chris Elliott for more information on how he can be of service to you.
Best Wishes,
Chris Elliott