Below are ten absolutely free strategies for getting a crowd of students, faculty and staff to your next campus event.

1. Send a memo to professors, asking them to announce the event before their class.
2. You have mail. Send out a campus wide email, announcing your event and details.
3. Contact the leaders in the student government and the leaders of campus programming, clubs and organizations. Ask them to pass the information along their members.
4. Write an article to be inserted in the school newspaper. Ask for the feature to run a few days in advance for optimal results.
5. Launch a white board brigade. Have a group of volunteers write the details on every class' white boards, listing the event, the time, location and details.
6. Tune into the campus radio station by asking them to conduct an interview with the speaker. Most speakers are happy to do a brief telephone interview.
7. Think majors. Contact all related majors (and speech teachers). Letting them know a topic in relation their area of study is being discussed.
8. Mark the date by adding your event to the campus website calendar.
9. Invite high school students to your event. It's a great way to reach out to the community, while getting prospective students on campus.
10. Text message your event details to a dedicated phone list.

Absolutely free, these promotional tactics can increase your attendance exponentially-at no cost to you or your organization.