[Organizers] Welcome email to new dancers -- bit of an exciting success story

2018-06-12 Thread Emily Addison via Organizers
Hi All, I wanted to report on a new engagement strategy that we've been using in Ottawa these past two months which seems to be working really well and I'm excited about! It's sending a personal email to new people as we add to our email list. (Full disclosure - this is an idea that Alex DL fro

Re: [Organizers] Welcome email to new dancers -- bit of an exciting success story

2018-06-12 Thread Alexandra Deis-Lauby via Organizers
Thanks Emily! Glad it’s working for you! We have a first timer pass that is in two sections. We keep the half with their name and email on it and the date they attended. They keep the half with the date they attended and their name. I send an email to them ideally within the first week I get i

Re: [Organizers] Welcome email to new dancers -- bit of an exciting success story

2018-06-12 Thread Jonathan Roveto via Organizers
Very cool experience and something that is quite timely from my perspective here in Atlanta. So, before I came on, we had what in hindsight was a terrible practice (in our implementation that is). We would give our new dancers "New Dancer Cards" that also had a Get In Free (GIF) portion that the d

Re: [Organizers] Welcome email to new dancers -- bit of an exciting success story

2018-06-12 Thread Delia Clark via Organizers
Hi Emily, I think I’m veering off from your question a bit, but one thing we found worked was to have known, trusted, members of our dance community recommend other people they thought might be interested, and give us their email addresses. We then included them in the next dance announcement wi

Re: [Organizers] Welcome email to new dancers -- bit of an exciting success story

2018-06-12 Thread Carol Geisler via Organizers
Hi Emily - Could you send us the version of your original email that was sent out and a version of the new email that is individualized and that got such a good response? On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 2:47 PM, Delia Clark via Organizers < organizers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > Hi Emily, > I think