Membership Matters – April was a fantastic month for new memberships – we received 224 new applicants!  Business reply cards and member referrals continue to be our biggest recruiting sources.  You too can help – visit the Membership Matters page for FREE recruiting materials and tips on how you can help our hobby grow. #Membershipmatters #TogetherWeGrow

Tips to welcome new members and strengthen the hobby

The best way to recruit new members is to share your collecting story and emphasize what APS membership means to you – make it personal!  Every story shared is a chance to welcome a new collector to our community.

Recruiting new collectors can be as simple as:

1. Share your collecting story and give an application to join to a friend;
   If you have a great story about how you started into the hobby, please consider sharing with us.  We would love to post it among the other My Stamp Story posts.  Contact the APS Media Team by emailing MediaTeam@stamps.org
2. Share a stamp with someone of a topic of interest (does your colleague love cats, lighthouses, Star Wars….give them a stamp of the topic);
3. Share a podcast story, an interesting article or a copy of “The American Philatelist”;
4. Share why you are a proud member of APS or about an APS service that really helped you;
5. Share resources from stamps.org – U.S. New Stamp Issues, event calendar, buying and selling opportunities, etc. and invite them to join online.

For more tips and recruiting tools, visit our Membership Matters page!