ideas …
… to prepare the website:
- show the visitor he landed in the right place (mention rugby.ch or …)
- show persons with a picture (smiling or scearing – your choice)
- show phone numbers and e-mail-adress (hardly anyone likes contact forms) AND make sure phone calls are answered …
- clean up and actualize your website (it is your visit card)
… to welcome the newcomers
- prepare the contact persons – so they’re ready to give the right information
- pass any information you got in the phone call or mail to the person that will welcome the newcomer on the pitch
- tell the newcomer what equipment to bring for the first training
- perfect, if you can tell on the phone, what person will wellcome the newcomer
- explain to the whole team how you want them to treat the newcomers
- at the first training, welcome the newcomer by his name
- explain the newcomer the program of the training and that after the training you’d like to have his first impressions.
- put a maraine/parrain Gotte/Götti by the newcomers side during the training … do no one gets lost
- …
… to make the newcomers stay
- give the newcomer a perspektive: tell what will happen the next week, show when a participation for first games or tournaments ist possible
- …
… to make the newcomers beein a part of the family
- show what’s happening outside the own club – take them to the games, even they cannot play yet.
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