Fraternities everywhere are starting to adopt a “PNM Orientation” session or a “Recruitment Kickoff” event (read more about “structured IFC recruitment”). These events are often well-intentioned (IFC’s want to set high expectations, educate prospective members, and give every chapter an opportunity to share their story), but too often these events result in a lackluster experience Read More
Phired Up Productions is so grateful to the over 130 Fraternity/Sorority professionals who joined us in Indianapolis on Monday for GROWTH SUMMIT/FRATERNITY CONSULTANT TRAINING 2015. The day was a huge success with education for many inter/national fraternity/sorority headquarters professionals. There were specific education tracks for new consultants (many were there on their first day on Read More
Imagine being hired by your inter/national fraternity headquarters as a professional recruiter. You are flown across the country to a campus where your fraternity does not exist. Your job is to build from scratch a chapter of your organization that will not only exist but must also improve the quality of the overall fraternity community Read More
The Delta Gamma chapter at the University of Georgia had struggled with membership numbers prior to when I joined the chapter through informal recruitment in the fall of 2007. Chapter Total at the University of Georgia was 175, and with my new member class, the chapter hovered around 100 members, making us the smallest Panhellenic Read More
This past Spring, something remarkable happened in Nebraska. Here’s the story. A local 61-year-old fraternity, Alpha Gamma Nu (AgMen), that was founded in 1953 at the University of Nebraska reached out to Phired Up to help re-establish its legacy of excellence. They weren’t looking for a massive chapter — they wanted a core group of Read More
“Let’s invite inter/national fraternity sorority leaders to gather together and find ways to collaborate, innovate, and accelerate the spreading of Greek Life.” This is the idea of GROWTH SUMMIT 2014,(click to learn more and register) which is scheduled to take place June 30th at IUPUI’s campus in Indianapolis. We’ve had a high number of registrations Read More
Tom Murphy, Phi Mu Delta National Fraternity’s Executive Director recently shared some amazing statistics about the 2013-2014 school year for their organization. Before Fall 2013, the 96-year-old fraternity had 15 chapters and colonies and a total of 309 undergraduate members. Today, just 9 months later, the organization has just under 600 total undergraduate members at Read More
[Note: At the end of this blog we announce an important upcoming webinar series for sororities!] [Another Note: We've written a highly-read blog on this topic before here. Read it and share these with your sisters.] by KJ McNamara Panhellenic Councils across North America are all trying to answer the question: How do we teach Read More
It has been anecdotally reported that as many as 1 in 5 students QUIT fraternity and sorority each year. As a fraternity/sorority leader, you know from experience that far more than that become disengaged or completely disappear before they graduate. Retaining the best of the best of our fraternity/sorority members is a major challenge that Read More
Phired Up’s Recruitment Coaching Really Works. Learn about it here. Woody Woodcock was Paul Manly’s Phired Up recruitment coach when Paul was recruiting for Sigma Tau Gamma. Paul was really good. So good, we ended up hiring him. But before we did, we captured this testimonial video about one of his Sigma Tau Gamma projects. We’re Read More