Thanks for everyone's help and assistance last night collating the Membership Packs for our upcoming Rotary Business Month. Slowly but surely, the event is coming together and over the coming month, we will all need to start promoting it to our family, friends, colleagues, business networks and even your local tradesperson. Let's all get behind this initiative and bring a guest or three, along to these events in November. (Then, we all need to let our hair down and have a social activity on the last Monday of November to celebrate - or, is that just me?)
I've had a few enquiries already from people out 'there' (non Rotarians) who have heard about our business month and have offered to be guest speakers. I have been collecting their names and inviting them to attend the sessions first but if there is such interest now, there's nothing stopping us from continuing these sessions into 2012 and focussed around industry sets. Already, I've got a couple of speakers from the health and medical fields so we can target this industry in the future. Effectively, I want to get the word out there that Rotary is about being a community volunteer through using our vocations, networking and shared expertise. It's also about enjoying the company of people who have different professions, come from all walks of life and who also would like to serve the community as best they can.
In the next month, we will need to get busy promoting the event. This means that I need your support and assistance to spread the word to your colleagues, family, friends and tradespeople you may know. You should have a few of the handouts already to give out but if you need some more let me know. Geoff and I will be busy getting on the phone to call businesses to invite them along but we also need to do a flyer drop at some local businesses. The hard stuff is going to be in October until such a time we get a 'name out there' and a bit of publicity so that people can find us and then look us up to come to more in the future. It's just like promoting a new business I guess you can say...
It was a relatively quiet night and the quickest board meeting we've had but it just goes to show that we are all working away on our respective committees and doing good work which is greatly appreciated.
Some good news about the Calcutta Night and the cost has been slashed by half to $30pp. With this price, we will sell all the tables easily and once it gets promoted to the District over the next week or so, the tables will disappear. Currently there are 24 tables of ten in total but 10 of them have already been sold. If our club want to have this as a Club Night then I would suggest we buy a table of ten - if we can get ten people there asap and I can book the table on my credit card through the online registration process.
I'm looking forward to next week - not only to share the evening with a fellow Rotary Club but to see a vocation-in-action and visit Caltooling. I believe these vocational tours are what stands us out from other clubs and frankly, it's interesting to see what businesses are doing in our area as well as strengthen our relationship with these businesses and learn something new in the process.
Have a great week!
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