Help spread the word of Join Me...
Hello. Me again. You'll need to get used to that.
I need your help in recruiting suitable candidates to the Join Me cause... I need a certain number of Joinees before The Collective can progress... so I need you to help spread the word of Join Me...
If you can provide me with proof that you've got the words Join Me into your local paper, on the radio, on the telly, on the side of a bus, even... you'd be doing me the world of good. And you could even win a prize. So phone that radio show. Paint that banner. Write that free small ad in your local rag. Flyer that pub. Convince that pensioner.
TIPS FROM AN EXPERT
This is Silver Joinee Craib. See how he spreads the word? He is an expert. Should you have a question for Silver Joinee Craib, you can e-mail him on stephen.craib@talk21.com - he will have tips, advice and hints on the best way to do it. Incidentally, the man pictured with him has not joined yet. But Joinee Craib knows where he lives, and will not be giving up. Despite the fact that the man is quite clearly a giant.
Or how about...
An e-mail campaign... if you can send an e-mail to your closest
friends and, better still, hundreds of strangers, directing them to
this site and urging them to join up, you will probably go to heaven.
Why not copy this sample text and send it to your pals right this very
minute:
Hello
pal. It's me. Your friend.
I'd like to tell you about this wonderful thing called Join Me.
I've joined it, and now I can't imagine what life was like without
it! Probably quite drab and dreary, I'll bet.
Why don't you Join too? Aw, go on. Do it for me. We're pals. Friends.
Mates. It's the kind of thing we do for each other.
And you'd really be helping out the person who wants you to Join
Them, while also Joining Me. What could be better? There might even
be a prize in it for you.
Have a gander at http://www.join-me.co.uk -- I'll see you there.
Bye!
Have a look at the Downloads
page too where you can find graphics to email to your friends and use
on your webpages.
There will be a prize for the Joinee who recruits the furthest-afield
new Joinee... so if your cousin lives in Peru, whack 'em an e-mail...
Fight Spam!
With... er... more spam. You know when one of your mates sends you a
tedious mass e-mail with a thousand jokes you're bored of before you've read
'em?
Hit "Reply To All" and bombard his mailing list with
a Call To Arms. Get your mate's mates to Join Me!
Join Me @ the pub...
if you can organise at least ten of your mates who you think will make suitable candidates... let me know. If they're willing to turn up to their local pub on an agreed day, and it's logistically possible, I will attempt to turn up and Approve Them. Not a promise. Nor a threat. But could be good.
Subtle stuff
Joinee Jess also suggests you add the URL to this site - www.join-me.co.uk - to your e-mail signature... can't hurt, if you ask me.
Leaflets and Stickers
Literally thousands of Join
Me leaflets and stickers are being distributed all over the country...
and they’re working! If you’d like any, a new batch will
soon be printed... e-mail me on info@join-me.co.uk
with your request... put LEAFLETS PLEASE as the subject header and I’ll
try and get it sorted...
And if you're successful in Spreading The Word...?
Yes! Look at it! Look at it!
Gawp at that t-shirt! It's ace! And it proclaims the fact that you - a kind, brave, lovable friend of mine
- have
Joined Me! What could be better? What could make a person prouder? Absolutely nothing. Trust me. I've done experiments.
And y'know what? I'll be choosing one new joinee each month to give one of these t-shirts to. Yes. It could actually happen to you.
Or, if you've already joined, but you didn't win the t-shirt that month - how's about this?
If you can provide me with proof that you've helped Spread The Word, I'll pop your e-mail in another large hat, this one entitled "the hat in which I put all the people who have provided me with proof that they have helped Spread The Word", and if your luck's in... you could be wearing one of these fully-washable, ultracool Join Me t-shirts down your local disco or carvery this time next week.
Make it happen, kids.