What’s up everybody it’s your girl Tyra and I’m coming back at you again with another video today’s video is another Greek inspired video and we are gonna learn all of the ways you can save money to pay your dues okay guys we not gonna waste no time we don’t get right to the
Point you guys are here because you want to know how you can save money to pay dues for the sorority or fraternity you want to join let’s get right into the video so first I want to just clarify the difference between your initiate dues and fees and your membership dues
And fees so the initiate dues and fees are the things that you pay when you are joining the organization that you are trying to join and the membership dues are what you pay on a yearly basis or semester Lea however your chapter of whatever work you are joining does
That’s when you pay it but the membership dues are an ongoing thing and the initiative dues are only paid once it’s like the application fee and all of the armboard except that you have to do that’s where most of those fees aren’t going towards so you guys already know
This but your girl is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated and when I was joining Delta I honestly did not know it was gonna happen when it did like I said in my journey to do Selene video we were a reactivation line so there are no deltas on campus would be
Like hey you better have your money hey you better do this or whatever the case may be there was no one to tell us all I may be coming soon so we just saw the flyer we were like okay and we had to have that money soon now if you know a
Lot about d9 and I’m gonna be that’s specifically the group of orgs that I’m gonna be talking about d9 we put up a flier and we say hey here’s our informational be there or be square whatever and normally you are going to be initiated into that organization the
Same semester that you see the poster posted or the next semester in some cases so you gotta have that money pretty fast so I’m gonna give you guys five ways to make sure that you have the money that you need when you need it before I tell you guys the first way I
Was safe to have $1,500 saved up Tara why I gotta have so much money saved up personally when I crossed my amount that I had to pay was not that but I have talked to a couple of people and their amount that they had to pay whenever they joined their organization was more
Than 1,500 so I’m kind of giving you guys like an average between the two and on the higher end from the people that I talk to that are paying 1,500 to 2,000 dollars they are also paying for their national convention or regional convention different things up front so
They can just go after they cross now Tara I don’t know how I’m gonna make this $1,500 for next semester oh I got you so the first way that I have for you guys is to get a job I know most of you guys are in college that’s why you here
On this video so get a job most college channels have a lot of jobs you can’t wait tables there’s delivery jobs you can work at piece of hood if you want to work retail you can work retail literally just go on Craigslist and deed Glassdoor all of those kind of things
And find a job these days be a work is actually pretty popular in a lot of states and be a work is brand ambassador work and they pay you between fifteen to twenty dollars an hour to stand up and say hi here’s your free stuff for brands like coca-cola sprite
T-mobile Sprint all of these big brands pay top dollar for you to just stand around and give out free stuff at events I actually have a video about this on my channel so if you want to know more about VA work make sure that you click
The video here and it’ll tell you all that you need to know to get started it’ll show you where to go to find work in your area and you can make a lot of money in a little bit of time being a be a depending on where you live in the
United States tip number two would be to charge for your skills I know everybody is good as something and this is an area where I could have done better when I was in school if you do hair if you draw if you do photography if you make
Clothes graphic designs if you do nails and eyebrows and stuff literally anything you can make money because for one you’re in college you have a slew of people that need your services for some thing and nine times out of ten if I’m looking to get my eyebrows done in my
Hair done I’m not trying to leave campus I don’t want to go out into the real world I want to stay on campus and I want to say to my best friend hey you know anybody to do hair for Lowell oh girl yeah I know somebody to do hair for
The low-low la la and room 200 do hair for the low-low and then there you go that’s money right there and a lot of people don’t really think about being a freelancer or offering those types of services for one because they’re not going to school for
That kind of stuff but keep that in your mind you can make a lot of money and it’s probably gonna be an open market and you won’t get your name out there there’s also different freelancing websites like upward Fiverr freelancer.com where you can put a service online to
Reach a bigger market of people and get paid for that as well the third way to save money for your dues would be to save money so there are a lot of apps these days I personally do not use them in this day and age but if I had them
Back when I was in college I think I would have really appreciated them so there are these apps that you can sync to your bank account and every time you spend money at a store it will round up to the next dollar so when you round up
To the next dollar like let’s just say you spent a dollar fifty in a round of $2 and it’ll take that 50 Cent’s and it’ll put into a savings account for you you can make this little money pool or nest egg or whatever you can name it
Like Delta dues money or something like that so you can always keep up with how much money you have saved just from spending money now the only thing about this is make sure you not overdrive to your account because some of these apps don’t have like no setting to where it
Won’t overdrive for you spend it so just keep in mind of that I know of two of them there’s one call acorns and there’s one call capital and you can set it to your goal and you can also set it to how much you want them to take out my fourth
Tip would be to use your financial aid boo-yah in college y’all know y’all get a refund check now I’m gonna clarify if your refund check is from alone don’t use it send it back hmm.well need that over here but if you are getting a refund check or some
People call them over checks then use that money to put in your savings account and use however much of it you need to pay for the do’s and the iniciative ease for the organization that you are looking to join when i was in college i olaria i blew that money
Every single semester the good thing is the flyer went up at the beginning of the semester so that was before I got my refund check so for the semester that I did cross I didn’t just blow that money I set it aside because I knew I was
Gonna have to have a lump sum of money to pay to this organization that I wanted to join use your financial aid refund check for feeding yourself room and board if you don’t live on campus and investing in your future so Jordan this organization is definitely an investment in your future because like
My organization Delta Sigma Theta it is a lifetime commitment okay and my tip number five would be to ask for a sponsor there are so many people that hit me up on Instagram and say oh my god how much is it gonna cost how am I gonna
Get this money what am I gonna do I can’t get a job because I’m a double major Google enrollment student and I take 700 credits a semester okay boo boy if you ain’t got no time to do nothing extra then definitely ask for a sponsor not go to ten legacies to be getting
Sponsored I’m not a legacy so I didn’t have anybody in my immediate family that was like oh my gosh I want to pay for all your Delta stuff or here’s all my money money money money I had nobody like that but nine times out of ten if
You’re a legacy you can just ask your mama or your grandma or aren’t or whatever hey they’re about to have Rush get your checkbook together so we can you know pay these dues but you can also ask a mentor businesses you can ask your advisor like depending on if these
People are familiar with the organization that you are trying to join so if your advisor is in organization or in one of the other denied organizations you can say hey I really don’t have any other options I don’t know what to do can you help me and even if they can’t
Sponsor you and money they can sponsor you and knowledge and point you in the right direction to make sure that you are getting the money and everything else that you need to join this organization you can get a sponsorship from anyone somebody that is already in the organization an alumna
Member someone who is in the chapter that you are planning on joining like if you’re a sister or a cousin or someone joined before you ask them for sponsorship I know that may be kind of hard cuz you out of college but you know it don’t hurt to ask the worst thing
They could say is no and the way I would go about it as a whole asking for a sponsorship if it’s not a family member or someone I really really know really well I would write them a letter I would say hey my name is Tyra I’m looking to
Join this illustrious sorority can you sponsor me tell them why you like to join how they have made an impact in your life and how much you would appreciate that sponsorship those types of things make them feel real good and ask them to empty their pockets you can
Also ask your parents for a sponsorship hey mom I’m joining this organization it’s a huge investment I’m super excited about it it will really make a difference in my life could you please sponsor me because you please help me out with at least half of
The cost 1/3 of it or whatever the case may be my only caveat with that let’s say your mama is a KA you trying to be a delta nine times out of 10 she ain’t gonna pay for this personally I would not do that to my daughter especially if
It’s something that I knew that she won and she was really serious about doing it I would invest in her and her college experience so I just wanted to put that out there that sometimes people really be saying like if my kid joins an organization that I’m not in I’m not
Paying for it and they make them work for the money to make sure that they really really want it but if they want it to be an organization that I’m in ok here I’m gonna give you this little pass on the money and stuff like that don’t
Let that deter you still ask for them sponsorships because like I said the worst thing they can say is no make sure that you are asking for the sponsorship ahead of time like don’t wait until when the money is due even if you don’t know when the Flyers coming up think about
People that you would want to sponsor you now just make sure that you foster those relationships so when the time does come you can just reach out to them and be like hey I really could use the sponsorship so those are all of my tips for you guys I’m pretty sure that you
Can use one two or three of them to help you out to get this money like I said save fifteen hundred dollars I think that’s a good minimum it may be a little less it may be a little but that’ll be a good starting point for
You to have when you go to the informational and they do tell you the exact amount now sometimes you can go to an informal meeting or like at my school we had mixers and NPHC informational x’ where all of the orgs are there and you can ask for a ballpark
Estimate hey how much would you suggest I save it for joining Delta or joining a K or joining your organization how much should I have in the bank a ballpark range you don’t have to give me a real amount just give me a ballpark and that’s how understand they will give you
A ballpark estimate in those settings and the reason I can give you the full amount is because they don’t know it they literally don’t know it until they get all the information from their organization when they’re about to bring through new members so they can only
Give you an estimate based off of what has been done in the past so just keep that in mind as well now I’m give you one more tip if you haven’t heard anything about the work that you want to join coming back to campus or bring it
Through a new line or whatever the case may be just pay attention to their pattern sometimes there can be a pattern like this organization only accepts new members in the spring or they only do fall lines or whatever the case may be it’s different for every school and
Every order but if you notice a pattern just try to anticipate that so you know when to start saving but I say start saving day one it’s never too early to start saving well you guys those are the five tips I have for you to help you save money for the Greek organization
That you would like to join I hope you guys enjoyed this video and I hope you found it very informative if you like these types of videos on my channel be sure to give it a like that really helps my channel out a lot and if you have any
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