How to Market 4-H

Marketing 4-HHow you can do it

People’s misconceptions about 4-H Great program for teens everywhere 4-H needs the support The more the merrier!

Why To Market 4-H

Perhaps the best reason….

Put it in your portfolio!!

How to Market 4-H

Talk about the benefits, instead of the features.

Make people understand the opportunities in 4-H, not just the monthly meetings and portfolios

Don’t just try to push people to join. Just simply talk about 4-H!

Benefits = trips, scholarships, friends, skills

Features= monthly meetings, painful portfolios

Never post something you would mind the whole world reading.

If you really want to get people involved in 4-H, steer away from any negative press.

Remember- you are representing 4-H’ers when you talk about 4-H

Ways NOT To Market 4-H

Think before you tweet

Post links to 4-H articles and share with your friends.

Tell your friends why you love 4-H!

Post about service project ideas.

Facebook/Twitter

Create a blog about 4-H, Leadership, Citizenship, your project, portfolio ideas, opportunities in 4-H… anything else you can think of.

Start a blog, then post fairly often. Use Blogger, Wordpress, Livejournal, or others

Blog

Design one Comment on one Start a discussion on one Go to webs.com, wix.com,

or weebly.com to make your own for free.

Websites

Make movies related to your project.

Make a commercial about 4-H.

Make a movie about why you think people should join 4-H!

YouTube

Wear 4-H t-shirts!

Write about 4-H in your school/local newspapers!

Talk about it!

Other Ways to Market 4-H