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Transcript of Optional to Essential: Constructing Your Marketing Plan Welcome.
Hello! My name is….
• Introduce yourself by sharing the following– Name– State– Chapter– 1 fun fact about yourself– You chapter’s biggest concern as it relates to
promoting your chapter
Objectives
• Identify the characteristics of an essential FCS/FCCLA program
• Introduce the new “Guide to Promoting FCCLA”
• Identify best practices for teaching students how to market themselves and FCS/FCCLA
• Develop a marketing plan for a chapter’s long-term goals using the Planning Process
What’s Essential to You?
• Consider the list of the following items in a chapter, with the people at your table, you must choose the five items that are essential to a chapter’s success.
• Everyone at your table must agree!
What’s Essential to You?
• Large number of members• Updated Bylaws• Unlimited financial resources• Strong stakeholder support• Engaged STAR Event competitors• Community service/service learning presence• Administrator support• Another adviser to share responsibilities• Strong group of student leaders• An extra plan period for FCCLA activities
Essential Programs…
• Are co-curricular– Plan STAR Events in your class to meet objectives
and promote your program– Use Power of One as a goal setting project– Turn proficiency on an objective in to a planned
project
Essential Programs…
• Fill a need– Your program does something that brings positive
associations to the school– The only organization with the family as the
central focus
Essential Programs…
• Financially self-sustaining– Thank your school for whatever you receive – Have an advisory board to which you report your
credits and debits– Don’t spend money you don’t have– Set up a budget and share that budget with
members, parents, donors, and administrators
Essential Programs…
• Give service– Brings your organizations members together and
builds their relationships– Gives you a new advocate– Builds proficiency in a classroom setting when
used as a learning tool (i.e. service learning)
Essential Programs…
• Develop students’ skills– Leadership– Public speaking– Advocacy– Self-esteem– Confidence– Higher graduation rates– Higher GPA
What is Marketing?
• The action of promoting and selling products or services
• What are we promoting?• What are we selling?
The Guide to Promoting FCCLA
• Who should have this?– Advisers– Officers– Any student involved in marketing your
organization– Administrators– Marketing teacher– Parents
The Guide to Promoting FCCLA
• How can I use it?– Writing media releases– Basic facts about the organization– Ensure proper use of the logo– FCCLA editorial style guide– Tips for how to use each kind of media– Tips for working with elected officials
Guide Yourself to Answers
• Working as a table, you will find the answers to the questions that follow.
• Choose one person as a recorder • Each person will find one answer and then
pass the booklet to the next person.• When it is your turn, find the answer and the
recorder will write down the answer and the page number.
Guide Yourself to Answers• What is the name for the award that honors a media
outlet whose responsibilities are not related to FCCLA, but who has contributed to the coverage of the organization?
• What indicates the end of a media release?• What is a media advisory used for?• What does PSA stand for?• Where should a chapter name be placed when using the
FCCLA logo?• How many characters per Tweet are allowed on
Twitter?
Take What You Learned
• Take the article at your tables and help identify areas to improve this press release
• Advertising in and out of the school• Develop RELATIONSHIPS with the community
and business leaders• Attend meetings and present at community
and school organizations• Be your best advocates• Personally strive to portray a positive image
Tips
• Never assume your kids know what they’re doing
• Practice! Practice! Practice!– Have them critique each other– Ask your students thought questions regularly
• Get it before they go• Keep everything in perspective
Teaching Time!
• As a group, create a 20-30 minute lesson plan that you could use to teach this concept to a group of members
Planning Process
• Always the starting point• Your students already know it so it makes it
easier to get started• Think about the problem with promoting and
marketing you shared in your introduction and we will be developing a plan to help you solve this problem
Planning Process:Questions to Consider
• Who is the audience?• How do you attract new members?• Where do they come from?• How do we share our experience?• What will they get by joining FCCLA?• Why should current members rejoin?• How do we recognize members?• Who are our community supporters?
Act
• Setting up a marketing plan allows you to– Develop measureable goals– Assign roles– Measure progress
Take it Home
• Discuss your plan with your group– What can you take back to your chapter?– Which of these ideas will be met with opposition?– How can you prepare for the new year today?– What do you need to carry out a successfully
marketing plan?
Seeing Results
• Sometimes we have to remind students that they are building a file (literally and/or figuratively)
Allison KreifelsNational Consultant Team
2012-13 National Executive Council Adviser
@akreifels