You’re cool, right? And since you’re cool it means you must belong to a cool Toastmasters club. You’re looking for new members, right? Your club will die eventually unless you get new blood coming into it, no matter how cool it is. You get new members by advertising you club. Finally, you must realize that the other people reading mySpaith are cool like you are, even if they’re not Toastmasters yet.

Ergo… you should advertise your cool club to the cool readers of this site! The “Find a Cool Club” link is prominently displayed on the left of your screen and is present on all pages on this site. One of the target audiences for this blog is prospective Toastmasters, so it is likely they’ll click on the “Cool Clubs” while here and maybe hookup with you!

If you’re interested, it’s very easy. Just send me a mail at johntm@spaith.com. Include:

• Your club’s name
  
• If the club is open to the community or if it’s only open to a particular company/school/… If it’s a closed club, tell the group it’s limited to.
• A link to your club website, if you have one.
  • If you don’t have a website, your district may have basic information about your club you can link to. For instance, Redmond2828’s page on District 2 is here.
  • If and only if you don’t have a website, include an email contact. Most people will prefer going to a website anonymously than effectively giving their email to a stranger.
• The city/state/country your club meets
  • Please don’t include street address/building information. I’m trying to keep these blurbs short and to the point. Your website/email contact should provide the directions since these are more likely to change from week to week.
• A snazzy, attention grabbing description of your club. 150 words or less
  • Please don’t put go too overboard explaining how many DCP points you’ve got, that you won the President’s Uber-Ultra Distinguished Club in 1972, how you’re part of Select District 24, or other stuff that only an experienced Toastmaster would care about (never mind know what it means). Your target audience is mostly non-Toastmasters.
  • I ask that the blurb is something reasonably permanent so we don’t have to constantly update it.
  • Keep it upbeat and positive. If your club is about to die and you’re desperate for new people, just fake that everything is fine!
• Let me know that your president/officers are OK with you advertising here. I respect that clubs like to control their PR and may not want an individual member adding links all over the place without talking about it first.

The advertising is free of course. I ask though that if you have a website that you consider linking back to this blog in return - either to the home page or better yet to an article that isn’t overly offensive to you. I’m not going to play “link-back to be or else” police; this is just a friendly request.

Don’t delay! Start adding cool people to your cool club right away!