So I have been swimming with a masters team since august and have since then paid my usms membership fee at the end of October to be able to swim in a meet we recently had. I haven't recieved my usms card in the mail yet. In two weeks and am going back home from school for a month but need to swim in a structured program and am gonna find the masters team at home and wanted to know if I could still swim with them without my membership card, is there a way to prove my membership without it?
Laminated cards as proof of membership is 20th century technology. We should do better.
But were not and that is the point.
There are cost with eveything Chris...and most of us who like the free market sysytem like to think their are also returns...with the amount of $$$ going to the magazine I submit there are more funds that could be better utilized to get PR for USMS than most realize.
Something so simple, so basic as this luggage tag and people shoot it down without any other suggestions...or we fall back on the "were a volunteer organization" or "no one would want that"...I may sit out here alone on this but I absolutely disagree.
We see people here all the time talking about Top 10, records, patches but try and talk about a value added benefit on even the smalest scale for USMS and sadly (from a bunch of supposed competitive people) is why it won't work. I would suggest that a hang tag on a gym bag for a fitness swimmers would generate more interest in this organization than our magazine which reaches only existing members. Bring up discounts from key sponsors and we heard that won't work, so what will...?
So we sit on the treadmill that USMS is on and talk about change and growth and evolving and mission statements...and we talk.
Laminated cards as proof of membership is 20th century technology. We should do better.
But were not and that is the point.
There are cost with eveything Chris...and most of us who like the free market sysytem like to think their are also returns...with the amount of $$$ going to the magazine I submit there are more funds that could be better utilized to get PR for USMS than most realize.
Something so simple, so basic as this luggage tag and people shoot it down without any other suggestions...or we fall back on the "were a volunteer organization" or "no one would want that"...I may sit out here alone on this but I absolutely disagree.
We see people here all the time talking about Top 10, records, patches but try and talk about a value added benefit on even the smalest scale for USMS and sadly (from a bunch of supposed competitive people) is why it won't work. I would suggest that a hang tag on a gym bag for a fitness swimmers would generate more interest in this organization than our magazine which reaches only existing members. Bring up discounts from key sponsors and we heard that won't work, so what will...?
So we sit on the treadmill that USMS is on and talk about change and growth and evolving and mission statements...and we talk.
