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3 NEW Ways to Talk a Friend Into Walking With You

3DAY_FBCoverPhotos_JoinUs_CollageThis is the time of year when many 3-Day walkers are focused on recruiting new walkers and growing their teams. A lot of us could quickly identify one or more friends we would love to bring into the 3-Day family, but convincing those people to make the commitment to the 3-Day is not always easy. We’ve already given you 3 Ways to Talk a Friend Into Walking With You, and if that didn’t do the trick, we brought you 3 MORE Ways to Talk a Friend Into Walking With You. But just in case, we’ve got a few more suggestions to help you turn more friends into teammates.

Arm Them With Facts – Committing to walk 60 miles and raise $2,300 for Susan G. Komen is huge, and putting that much time and energy into something is a personal decision that everyone should give careful consideration. Komen is a well-known leader in the breast cancer cause, but that alone may not be enough information for some. Fortunately, we have extensive and detailed information about how Komen uses the funds it raises and how the 3-Day specifically has been instrumental in major breast cancer advances since 2003. If concerns about Komen are what’s keeping your friend from registering, direct them to The3Day.org/Komen, or have them call a 3-Day coach at 800-996-3DAY to have their questions answered so they can join the 3-Day with confidence and clarity.2015_3DAY_SEAsun_EDB (369)

Join Forces – Perhaps you are just one person, trying to recruit one or two friends to walk the 3-Day with you. Consider joining with an established team and get the power of more people behind you. In every 3-Day location, we have dozens of teams who are open and welcoming to new team members. If you’re registered and trying to get a friend to sign up with you, join one of the teams in your city and let them give a warm welcome to your friend. Who could resist the openhearted invitation of a friendly 3-Day team? If you need help finding one of these open teams, search the 3-Day Friend Finder at The3Day.org/Friend or call the 3-Day coaches at 800-996-3DAY and they’ll happily help you find a good fit.2015_3DAY_TCFri_EDB (79)

Tell Them They Can Travel For FREE! – This might be the most enticing carrot you can dangle in front of your potential teammates: the opportunity to travel to a 2016 3-Day event for free. There are some parameters on our two travel programs, so be sure to read up on the fine print here, but the basic gist is that the 3-Day will pay for round-trip airfare for any first-time walker (never registered before), or any past walker who hasn’t participated since 2014, if they don’t live near a 3-Day. These travel programs are also for a very limited time, so if you plan to use them as a recruiting tool, don’t wait another minute!

 

9 Ways You Can Make Friends Through the 3-Day

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Today is Make a Friend Day, and we here at the Susan G. Komen 3-Day® know a thing or two about this particular skill. The Komen 3-Day has been bringing together family and friends, old and new, for years, and we’re not done yet! The 2015 3-Day® season is underway, and we thought it would be the friendly thing to do to share some ways that you can look forward to making friends during your 3-Day journey.

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  1. Ask people to walk with you. (Okay, so technically, those people are probably already your friends, but think of how much closer you’ll be after you walk 60 miles together!)
  2. Go to a 3-Day community event! If you live in or near one of our 3-Day locations, you can attend a Get Started Meeting, Walk & Talk or any of the dozens of meet-ups taking place over the next few months. RSVP at The3Day.org/Calendar.
  3. Follow the 3-Day on social media. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest are all terrific virtual “places” to meet your fellow walkers and crew members. More and more, we hear stories of people who became acquainted on social media, then meet in person for the first time when they get to the 3-Day. How wonderful that we live in a world where that’s possible!
  4. Attend a training walk. The 3-Day training walk calendar won’t start filling up for another month, after we finish recruiting and training our volunteer training walk leaders, but the coming spring will bring loads of options. So bookmark The3Day.org/trainingwalks and check it often. No training walks scheduled in your area? Think about leading one yourself and watch the friends come to you!susan g. komen 3-Day breast cancer 60 mile walk blog friends
  5. Wear your 3-Day gear. If you have a victory t-shirt from a past 3-Day, wear it out in public. Your fellow 3-Dayers around town will spot you and say hello, and those who are not involved with the 3-Day may ask you questions to find out what it’s all about. Don’t have a victory shirt? You can buy a variety of 3-Day shirts and other apparel at ShopKomen.com.
  6. Use the 3-Day Friend Finder. Registered participants can log in at The3Day.org/Friend and use this nifty tool for finding fellow walkers and crew members who live nearby.
  7. Call the coaches. There’s no one friendlier! The coaches love to hear from you, even if you don’t have a specific question and just want to say hello, so give them a jingle! 800-996-3DAY.
  8. Talk to strangers. Actually, we like to say that there ARE no strangers on the 3-Day, just friends you haven’t met yet. So when your 3-Day event rolls around, take the time to chat up the soon-to-be-friends you walk or crew alongside. Hear their stories and tell them yours.susan g. komen 3-Day breast cancer 60 mile walk blog friends
  9. There’s that one person you know, but right now, she’s just an acquaintance. She works in your building, or goes to your gym, or she’s got kids in the same school as your kids. But you know, through the grapevine, that she lost her mom to breast cancer. Go talk to her. Ask her how she’s doing. Tell her you’re walking. Maybe she’ll want to walk with you.