HOW TO GET 100 FRIENDS TO ATTEND YOUR PROGRAMME (Self-employment Article)

I was thinking last night about the power of having a lot of people attend your programme. I discovered that when people don’t patronize a person's programmes troubles happen. These programmes need people, launching new music album, church, business conference, party etc. I have realized that almost everything we do needs people; launching your new book, introducing your new brand of product, running a TV or radio programme etc. That is why I wrote this slogan on my website; the people are the most important.

This is what can go wrong in our society when people don’t show up at our programmes;

Hidden talents; People are afraid to showcase their talent because they feel no one would attend their programme and they’d be embarrassed.

The rise of charlatans; we hear every day that there are fake men of God who are cheating, then I reasoned that some of them are really called but because no one would attend their programmes frustration has pushed them to become something else.

Collapsed business; there are young honest youths who want to make a living with their talents, especially music. But nobody attends their programmes. There are more public speakers who are not known because of this.

Unemployment; there is also unemployment as a result. Think about how our world is been destroyed everyday because we are not able to get people to attend our programmes.

I have observed our society quietly and noticed that the commonest ways that people use to generate crowds are nurturing (holding a programme for many years, over time, you get lots of following), power (using magic, healing, etc), entertainment (party), ride my back (collaborating with respected people so that people would come to your programme; so you make them speakers) and etc.

Must it always be the above? When you do a programme and you don’t know how to join hands with great people it means you’d never have people, when you don’t have some anointing that would make people rise up and walk it means you’d never have successful church programme! I think we have taken a casual look to this situation too long. So, I have decided to stun you with new ideas in the coming weeks about how to use different methods to get people to your programmes without harassing your life.

Today am suggesting the friendship strategy to you. I think it is written in the book of proverbs that ‘he that wants to have friends must show himself friendly’.

I see that we can get people to attend weddings and parties more than we do for our business programmes? I know why. It’s because the way we invite people to attend our weddings is not the same way we invite people when we are having business programmes.

This is the typical way we invite people (and you have to adopt this strategy),

Firstly you have a friend or relative.

Secondly, you send a special invitation card with their names on it inviting them to come. They feel special and you show them some respect.

Thirdly, you sell the programme into their heads that your wedding is so important to you that if they don’t come you’d never forgive them. They'd stop all their activities to come.

Fourth, you showcase a well prepared programme. You and your partner dress nicely than everyone else, you give out gifts and so on. You get some respect, next time you'd do a programme they'd come.

Fifth, you give them special goodies at the wedding and even parcel something for them. Item 13, they call it, I love item 13s and am always at places where I can get things I love.

Sixth, you go and thank them after the programme, even going to their houses.You show appreciation, next time you'd have the courage the invite them again because you did the right thing.

Now let’s look at how we invite people to attend our programmes,

First, the people wake up one day and see either on their TV or on Facebook that you are going to have a business programme. Not even your relatives or friends see it, even if they’d see it they see it when is too late. You don’t send them a special invitation so they also decide not to make it their problem.

Secondly, you plaster a big programme fee without consulting them and they say eh? This guy is rich, I can’t attend!

Now the aftermath is that you did a programme and you lost money instead and you embarrassed yourself too. People are laughing at you behind your back because on the day of your programme, people weren’t coming so you decided to humble yourself and call them, begging them to come for free and they didn’t.

Why not take the wedding approach I’ve shown above? Using the wedding or friend approach means you have to make more friends, granted. Yes and its okay, its better than fasting 40 days just so you can have power to demonstrate for people to attend your programme. You have grown so lean by fasting and even people are not attending your programme pastor!

My final statement is, to have 100 friends to start your programme, make friends every day, be a social person till you have 100 friends. This is a small price to pay. And when you have enough friends, use the wedding approach to get them to attend your programmes.  When they come show them what is inside you is great so that next time when you invite them in the same way, they’d not refuse you. Next year I shall be holding my business and church conferences just come and see my crowds, you’d be so amazed.

I shall discuss much of these ideas in my next issue, keep visiting my website.

Thanks for reading.