<VV> Corsa Dues Increase - long

[Dave Keillor]

Making people feel welcome is fine, but meeting content is also very
important.  If the meeting is basically a bs session, newcomers won't
feel they belong -- at least initially.

I don't belong to a local club for two reasons.  One is that the nearest
one is about 90 miles away.  The second, and more important, reason is
that the meeting my wife and I did attend a few years back was primarily
a bs session by a bunch of guys making phallic references to antennas.
Perhaps this was not typical of their meeting content, but my wife
wasn't keen about attending any others to find out.

Dave Keillor
 

-----Original Message-----
From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
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Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 10:28 AM
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> Corsa Dues Increase - long

Bob,

Increasing membership is the BEST solution, short term and long term. We
as an organization need to "reach out" to attact new members. Once the
hook is set we need to make them feel welcome?at the local level so they
stay members.

Until the membership number get back to where they "need to be" we have
to manipulate the budget equation so that there will be a CORSA.

Ned