Recruiting

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. Did you know that they are actually using USMS members in a fair number of thosecommercials? 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. Okay, let's do it. We already have something to that effect in the marketing plan, and the collaterals will be printed soon. I need about 20 volunteers across the country willing to spend 2-3 hours a day making phonecalls and pursuing potential advertisers. Someone whom I can show the sales pitch, and someone with reliable communications and professional presentation. Anyone interested in volunteering when the effort gets underway, please email me! Part of the stifling of the USMS is that there's too many opinions going every which way, and not very many people thatare not afraid to say, enough is enough, let's decide on one and get the efforts under way. It's amazing how few people are willing to put their time and effort where their mouths are. 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. The silly thing about calling those groups comittee's is that everyone on the comittee thinks they're in charge. Everyone has an opinion, and very few people dare to make a decision. I wish half as many people chimed in when there's a call to volunteer some time and effort as there are when there's a chance for an opinion to be given. We already have plenty of good ideas worth trying out. What we need is to stop talking and start doing. I'm really hoping that having a coordinator (new governance) for certain areas will facilitate doing, and cut down on the talking.

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. Did you know that they are actually using USMS members in a fair number of thosecommercials? 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. Okay, let's do it. We already have something to that effect in the marketing plan, and the collaterals will be printed soon. I need about 20 volunteers across the country willing to spend 2-3 hours a day making phonecalls and pursuing potential advertisers. Someone whom I can show the sales pitch, and someone with reliable communications and professional presentation. Anyone interested in volunteering when the effort gets underway, please email me! Part of the stifling of the USMS is that there's too many opinions going every which way, and not very many people thatare not afraid to say, enough is enough, let's decide on one and get the efforts under way. It's amazing how few people are willing to put their time and effort where their mouths are. 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. The silly thing about calling those groups comittee's is that everyone on the comittee thinks they're in charge. Everyone has an opinion, and very few people dare to make a decision. I wish half as many people chimed in when there's a call to volunteer some time and effort as there are when there's a chance for an opinion to be given. We already have plenty of good ideas worth trying out. What we need is to stop talking and start doing. I'm really hoping that having a coordinator (new governance) for certain areas will facilitate doing, and cut down on the talking.