Recruiting

Paul/John I really respect and appreciate your comments and ideas (for what it's worth). As you can see from this lack of quailty ideas and responses so far, this organization is very myopic. I also have been to one convention and agree with your perception Paul on the efficiency or lack thereof! We seem to complain and argue about the same topics on here time and time again. My small view of this is that people want to grow this sport, they just don't want more than 4 people in their lane so it doesn't impede their workout. Heaven forbid we get people in our lanes that actually use buoys, paddles, fins, etc. (read this as the evil triathlete), but y'all know as well as I do, if something isn't done to increase the visibility of our sport, it will die on the vine. The promotion is crucial and I for the life of me don't understand why more people won't embrace more ideas than fliers and magazines that only reach the immediate group. Instead we get obnoxious reactionary comments about "selling names to MBNA" as response to a legitimate discussion. I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but I certainly have, swimming is featured now on more commercials than I have ever seen. It seems like more and more drug companies, health clubs and the like are having swimmers swim during some sort of voice over. Usually their form is atrocious, but that's a whole other story. We should be reaching out to those companies who are already featuring swimming in their ads and show them USMS and what we do. If it crowds the lanes, great just more people for me to draft off of. I have a great amount of sales, presentation and marketing experience in what I do and stand to help in whatever way I can. I just don't believe it is efficient to go to convention, form 5 sub-committees, and discuss it for 3 years each September what to do. I am a believer in action. Let's stop the snide comments and offer real suggestions.

Paul/John I really respect and appreciate your comments and ideas (for what it's worth). As you can see from this lack of quailty ideas and responses so far, this organization is very myopic. I also have been to one convention and agree with your perception Paul on the efficiency or lack thereof! We seem to complain and argue about the same topics on here time and time again. My small view of this is that people want to grow this sport, they just don't want more than 4 people in their lane so it doesn't impede their workout. Heaven forbid we get people in our lanes that actually use buoys, paddles, fins, etc. (read this as the evil triathlete), but y'all know as well as I do, if something isn't done to increase the visibility of our sport, it will die on the vine. The promotion is crucial and I for the life of me don't understand why more people won't embrace more ideas than fliers and magazines that only reach the immediate group. Instead we get obnoxious reactionary comments about "selling names to MBNA" as response to a legitimate discussion. I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but I certainly have, swimming is featured now on more commercials than I have ever seen. It seems like more and more drug companies, health clubs and the like are having swimmers swim during some sort of voice over. Usually their form is atrocious, but that's a whole other story. We should be reaching out to those companies who are already featuring swimming in their ads and show them USMS and what we do. If it crowds the lanes, great just more people for me to draft off of. I have a great amount of sales, presentation and marketing experience in what I do and stand to help in whatever way I can. I just don't believe it is efficient to go to convention, form 5 sub-committees, and discuss it for 3 years each September what to do. I am a believer in action. Let's stop the snide comments and offer real suggestions.