<VV> 100% CORSA membership requirement

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

>Not everyone sees it that way.  In my opinion, if you (we) want to
>increase membership, the right way to do it is building out that list of
>benefits -- not in mandatory membership.  If we deliver $38 in value,
>then people will pay $38 to get it.
>
CORSA seems to have forgotten one of those basic tenants of marketing -- 
sell your product!

So that might come down to a question of what they are trying to sell -- 
reading the website, one might think that they are selling Corvairs (Top 
Ten Reasons to Own a Corvair) rather than membership in their 
organization (no listing of benefits of such membership, and you have to 
work your way through the menu maze to find an application to join, and 
then you need to click the .pdf version to read it).  Maybe folks are 
just supposed to be born into the world knowing they want to join a 
Corvair club -- well, maybe I'm not from Missouri, but I still think a 
better way is to Show Me! Act like you care! -- I see great pictures of 
show cars on the website, but where are the pictures of ordinary Corvair 
owners having fun at CORSA events?  Shouldn't the website be a 
promotional tool for CORSA and not just the Corvair?

Bill Strickland
Oregon City, OR