Well, I'm officially a Past Potentate now and have a significantly less amount of hair. No, I didn't pull it out but rather lost it due to something we were able to achieve for the first time in at least more than 20 years .... positive membership growth (not sure exactly how long since we couldn't determine the last time we had a membership gain). Why is this significant for us in Grand Chapter .... Because I used the new Grand Chapter Membership information as the basis for the starting point of my program. We used it and it WORKS!
Oh and getting back to the hair... As we were closing in on the end of the year back in September as part of our "Get The Buzz For Membership" campaign, I made the final push to motivate the membership by indicating if we could get to positive membership that they could buzz my hair at the OG Roast. It caused a renewed interest in cutting down on the suspension for non-payment of dues and this became the deciding factor.
The best part is though we did not sacrifice the upcoming year for last year as we brought in 3 new members at the Installation (via short form) and have about another dozen waiting and another 40+ persons we have already invited to join!
As the saying goes it is difficult to get to the top but even more difficult to stay there. We plan to prove it can be done.
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