Originally Posted by
franklin_m
Perhaps you don't see it as important, and we may have to just disagree. However, if your goal is to grow membership, then clubs that don't respond because they're lazy, or don't respond because the posted contact info is incorrect, or don't respond for any other reason are, no matter what the reason, not supporting a goal of the organization. At best, it's not helping. At worst, it's hurting.
In a recent issue of MA, they talked about what steps are common to clubs that are healthy, and thus help stem the 15 year trend of declining membership. So is someone that contacts a club electronically and doesn't get a response that much different than someone who shows up and doesn't get a warm welcome?
I've never even hinted that accurate information isn't important, I think we both agree that isn't good. The problem is that this appears to be yet another issue to find fault with the AMA on, as if it's their fault, despite the fact that they aren't the ones making this information up, it's the clubs that control it. Perfect information would be perfect, but I'm not clear on how that happens without intervention, at a cost of course. It can be done from both ends though, but it's really up to the club.
And again, the comparison you make is an apples to oranges one, but manages to again to find some fault with the AMA. All roads lead to that it seems. The AMA has nothing to do of course with how people are greeted at clubs. That's all on the club.
All in all, this feels like another red herring issue, much like the one complaining about the AMA spending to much money on pins. At least with that issue nobody else was involved in the pins, just the AMA. Or were they.....
