Anne Myers, DTM, District 49 Governor for last year (2010-11) was kind enough to sit down with me for an interview via Skype.
Mike: Good morning, Anne! So D49 did something last year that no other district achieved — you renewed every single club in the district, no clubs lost. How did you do it?
Anne: We can look at two areas of focus, one is the new clubs that are formed and the other is the existing clubs, like other districts. I believe the biggest success we have in not losing clubs is that for new clubs, we focus on prescreening new clubs to ensure they are able to be sustained for the long term and not just a short term fix for a situation. Case in point, we had a corporate contact approach us where the group only wanted to form for help in doing some short term presentations.