Dynamic Recruitment is one end of a continuum of how a fraternity/sorority chapter attracts, selects, and secures its new members. The other end is called “Static Recruitment.” Static Recruitment is the “let’s see who comes to us” and the “I hope they like us” approach. Static Recruitment depends upon a chapter being impressive. Static Recruitment Read More
by Haley Cahill-Teubert This week my husband and I will celebrate our first wedding anniversary. I can’t help but reminisce on life this time last year. Flowers, RSVP cards, bridesmaid dresses, reception songs—it’s all coming back to me. Perhaps most memorable though, is something my mom said to me consistently throughout the wedding planning process. Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Branden Stewart Haley Cahill-Teubert joined the Phired Up team as an Organizational Growth Consultant effective May 20, 2019. Haley will join a robust and experienced team of Panhellenic sorority recruitment specialists to help deliver world-class training and coaching to our clients across North America. “I am extremely excited to have Haley Read More
by Alex Taylor New Student Orientation, or whatever your institution dubs the experience, is for many campuses the first physical introduction to your community. While the importance of this impression needs no stating, a roadmap for success does. Communities tend to fall into a few categories. Those are outlined, with a few key reflections for Read More
by Matt Farrell Kellen Long began this school year knowing basically nothing about fraternities at Florida State, as one of hundreds of potential new members entering formal recruitment. Fast forward a few months and Kellen knows as much as anyone–visiting each of FSU’s 16 chapters as a PNM, becoming a brother of Pi Kappa Read More
-by Nathan Laudan, Guest Blogger & Membership Growth Consultant- Alpha Gamma Rho “You can’t recruit who you don’t know.” I first heard this phrase as an undergraduate attending my National Fraternity’s Recruitment School, listening to a Phired Up facilitator give their “3 Secrets To Recruitment.” This was like a huge truth bomb getting dropped down Read More
No matter how your organization attracts, selects, and secures its newest members, fraternities and sororities that effectively put the right amount of the right people into their chapters understand that there is a fine art of organizational growth. When Phired Up first started, we only taught about the “science” of growing Greek Life. We talked Read More
by Erin Chatten What if we knew more about the potential members requesting to gain entry to our organizations? What if we prepared them to think about their intentions and desires before stepping foot into the recruitment or intake process? What if we could make an impression that our organizations are here to be more Read More
by Hailey Mangrum [To bring Hailey or other Phired Up trainers to your campus or conference, visit www.phiredup.com/now] If they don’t know you exist, their lives can’t be changed. If they don’t know you exist, they can’t help transform the future of your organization. If they don’t know you exist, your group can’t survive, much Read More
We want to call out something that’s really messed up in sorority-land: feeling like COB means your chapter is somehow broken or less-than. That’s just not right. For too many sorority women across North America, if your chapter finds itself in a position to do COB (Continuous Open Bidding a.k.a COR a.k.a. year round recruitment), you Read More