Host an Audio Book Club
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Invite your friends together and host an audio book club with a twist! Find recipes to fuel your gatherings, helpful hints for the host, ways to keep the discussion lively and more with our simple tips to host an excellent event! Turn your audiobook club into an audiobook event gathering that will be appreciated by all who attend.

Wether you have an existing audio book club or would love to create one by bringing friends and new people together to enjoy audiobooks, our helpful tips will make your next meeting an event rather than just another club. Expect it to take approximately one month to start a new audio book club. This gives ample time to organize all the necessary tasks in creating your club and making your audio book event a success.

Here is a great list that will take your audio book club from zero to a full attendance in simple easy to follow steps that will allow you to host an audio book club with great success.
So lets begin planning your audio book club...

Grow your Club
First you need to make a list of possible friends, relatives and neighbors that may want to attend your audio book club. In order for you to host an audio book club, you should strive to have a minimum of three people but it is ideal to start off with five. This allows for greater discussion within the group and the more people you have brings more opinions. It is hard to have in depth discussions about the various topics found in a book with just two people. What about if you want to add new members to your audio book club, how will you grow your audio book club? What is the best way to attract new members to your audiobook club? Here are many ways to attract new members and grow your audio book club.

Location, Location, Location
Once you know how many people the audio book club will start with, it is time to pick an appropriate location to host an audio book club. Often the size of the club will determine where the audio book event will need to take place. Remember, there is no reason to rent the Taj Mahal, start off small and slowly grow your club as you feel the need to. Here are some locations to host an audio book club.

Group Communication
To host an audio book club, one important factor must be maintained. Communication is the key that will hold the audio book group together. How will you keep the members informed for upcoming meetings? Who is going to bring the treats, drinks and finger food? Once your club is up and running, what is the best way to communicate the basics to the rest of the members so the audio book event will run smooth? There are many ways of communication today, why not use them all and create some appeal within your audio book group. Here is a list of ways to communicate with everyone else in the group.

Welcoming New Members
Whether in person or over e-mail, when new members contact you about joining your audiobook club, interview them briefly about their experience with audiobooks. Ask them why they're interested in joining your audio book club. Let them know about the current members and the age range of the members.
Be sure to give the new possible members all the information about your audio book club so they immediately feel welcome and comfortable before they even attend their first meeting. Here are some tips to welcome new members.

Your First Gathering
Are you Ready? Got all the last minute items taken care of? Sit down for one minute and concentrate on breathing. Up to now, you would have done quite a bit of work to get organized for this day. OK...do you feel a little relaxed? Great, lets go over a last minute check list and make sure you are ready to go and there will be no hickups popping up. Because holding your breath will not help you at this point. You should be going over this list about a week before the day you are going to host an audio book club meeting. Well, if you are ready lets double check and make sure you are ready for your first audio book gathering. Review the first gathering checklist now!

Refreshments and Finger Food
Are there going to be refreshments and finger food available? Lets face it, we all enjoy them and even if we do not plan on trying them... We still do, so make sure there is something for everyone to enjoy with drinks and food. We have some wonderful recipes for making unique drinks (non-alcohol) and finger foods. So take a look at the refreshment and finger food recipes.

Keep Everyone Talking
So what is everyone going to talk about? Well here is an idea, obviously the book? But what topics about the book is everyone going to talk about? You should have a common discussion questions that can be answered while people are listening to their audio books. This way when the discussions start, everyone is working from the same questions and the discussions will stay focused, active and on topic. Here is our common discussion questions to keep everyone talking. list of people to attend, a menu of snacks and treats, a day and time everyone can attend and of course the first audio book the group will listen to.

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