I use my friend's list as an avenue of reaching people who might interested in My Group Humor Is Healing.

I invite current members of my group to go through
their own friends list and invite whoever they think
would enjoy and benefit from joining "CLUB FUNNY BONE".

I personally invite every member of this group

to give me support simply by joining my group

which is "CLUB FUNNY BONE".

Thanks Beaumont for being the first from here to join!

What about the rest of you? Please check it out!

Well, at Procrastinators Unite!!! We are a little slow. There are probably thousands wanting to join...they are probably just napping, or eating, or watching TV...we would love to have more just like us though!

beaumont you are a great leader. you message people regularly and always come up with new subjects. you keep things active. i am sure all of your advice on leading is good advice.

Wow, thanks for all the great comments! You're all obviously highly intelligent, thoughtful folks.

One way to allow more people to know about your group is to click on "Edit Group," on your group's page, then go to "Main Group Settings," and click on the arrow in the "Category" box; you can move your group to different community pages. I move my groups about three times a week, going down the alphabetically arranged list from the beginning.

While you're there in the group settings, you can also change the background color of your group, and you can change it as often as you like. : - )

Thanks for those tips!

In each of the communities or groups on this website, you can post invitations to join your group in the discussion topics area. When things are slow in my groups, I join communities or groups (even ones for interests, issues, causes, or conditions that have nothing to do with me), post an invitation that includes the link to my groups, and then remove myself from the community by clicking on "Edit Membership" and then "Remove Me From This Group." Even after I leave a group, my invite will remain posted indefinately. For example, I might go to the Shyness Community page, and start a discussion topic as follows:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

There They Go Again!

To find out what they're up to now, mouse-click on the green letters here: http://dailystrength.org/groups/laughterclub

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Which reminds me, activity in the Leaders Forum isn't as high as it could be, so that means I need to get busy and start inviting new people to join us!

In all of my groups, I take it for granted that about ten percent of the group's members are inactive - they have closed their accounts, have simply stopped visiting the Daily Strength Website, or have gotten busy with other groups and have forgotten about my groups. The only solution for this is to constantly invite new people into my groups to replace lost ones.

I send out Hugs with the link on then it's up to the person themselves to join or not

One of the things about using hug message invitations is that not only will the intended recipients read them, but so can their friends when visiting their hugbooks to leave messages!

Great ideas, thanks. I am just getting started really. This group http://dailystrength.org/groups/the-safe-place-emotional-support was turned over to me, recently I've changed the name to Anything goes. I didn't know you could do all this. Again thanks for the tips.

Be persistent. I invite all of my Daily Strength friends to join my groups once each month, and I've even made a checklist in my notebook to remind me to do so. As with fishing, you won't always get a bite the first time you cast the line, but keep trying, and you'll eventually get a bite, and then another, and another.

Example of a reminder checklist:

Once each month invite all friends to join the Conspiracy Theories Group
[] Oct
[] Nov
[] Dec
[] Jan
[] Feb
[] Mar
[] Apr
[] May
[] Jun
[] Jul
[] Aug
[] Sep

P.S.: I don't know if there actually is a Conspiracy Theories Group on this website, but it sure could be fun for someone to start. They're coming to get us - the gov't, the secret societies, the corporations - conspiracy nuts, unite! ;-)

As I said in another post, I value activity over number of members.

If you get some really active members, the group will build itself, people who join will invite their friends and people who join the group will be more likely to stay.

Also activity is a good long term strategy for increasing membership.

I put a recommendation in the depression support group for DAPA, telling people that the group was updated daily and telling them to click on the link to find out.

Thank you for the tips, I will try them to grow my group. I would like to have participation in mine -it makes the games real fun.