How to attract members to join our school organization.?

Question

I am chairman of an organization at the university and our membership numbers are low. We've tried flyers, mass emails, word of mouth, refreshments, cookouts, facebook groups, etc, but we are still struggling with our membership. Our first meeting of next year will serve as an interest meeting, and it will be at my house. We were thinking about a luau, but how can we attract people?

Answer 1

In addition to your current methods, you could try making promotional materials. If your organizational has a particular logo or phrase it could be utilized in this way.

Answer 2

Free food always works well, when planning an event, be sure and ask people to invite their friends.  If there is an existing membership, your members should be incited to invite people by offering them an incentive to bring people.

If there are membership dues, perhaps a discount for each member they bring who signs up would be a good way of going about it.  

Another idea is to try and get on local radio stations to raise awareness.