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?
Nice dodge Chris...this is not about luggage tags per se....but the bigger picture of putting forth ideas that are based on the organization as a whole...and yes I do understand tht all "olitics" are local but we need the big dogs to set the tone.
So tell me how they didn't work? Did you do an anylysis that showed you they weren't providing the "brand" visiblity that over the long term would help more and more people identify with the crazy people they see at the pool everday swimming at 6am?
At this stage we have almost nothing in the way of brand awareness so my point is almost anything can help.
No dodge was meant. You are worried about brand visibility, that isn't really what I'm talking about.
Why didn't it work? It "worked" just fine, we just felt it wasn't worth the hassle. I can go into more detail if you like.
One of the things I like a lot about the online system is that it doesn't require anything to be mailed. I can always download the card if I want it. Going to a system where everyone is mailed something seems a step backward, not progress towards the future. I have enough trinkets around the house, I don't need more.
I've been a member of USAS for two years and don't have a luggage tag. Why would I want one? I have NEVER been asked to produce my USAS membership card to enter a meet (I've been in four over the last 2 years) since it is all done electronically through my club team, and presumably they check my membership against the national database.
I wish that USMS didn't require physical proof of membership to enter a meet -- that will probably come at some point -- but they ask for a copy of the card with the entry form. That is perhaps so that they can enter the USMS membership ID into the Meet Manager file ahead of time...and a luggage tag doesn't help with that. As a Top Ten recorder for my LMSC, I definitely appreciate it when they get the number right; showing your card at the meet check-in seems more error-prone to me.
As far as brand visibility, like Geek I have a sticker on my car. Good enough for me. I think Rob Butcher is working on "brand packaging" and I think he will do a great job. It is beyond my pay grade (since I work for free).
But doing it by giving my Registrar more work, and charging me more money, is something I'll fight against.
Nice dodge Chris...this is not about luggage tags per se....but the bigger picture of putting forth ideas that are based on the organization as a whole...and yes I do understand tht all "olitics" are local but we need the big dogs to set the tone.
So tell me how they didn't work? Did you do an anylysis that showed you they weren't providing the "brand" visiblity that over the long term would help more and more people identify with the crazy people they see at the pool everday swimming at 6am?
At this stage we have almost nothing in the way of brand awareness so my point is almost anything can help.
No dodge was meant. You are worried about brand visibility, that isn't really what I'm talking about.
Why didn't it work? It "worked" just fine, we just felt it wasn't worth the hassle. I can go into more detail if you like.
One of the things I like a lot about the online system is that it doesn't require anything to be mailed. I can always download the card if I want it. Going to a system where everyone is mailed something seems a step backward, not progress towards the future. I have enough trinkets around the house, I don't need more.
I've been a member of USAS for two years and don't have a luggage tag. Why would I want one? I have NEVER been asked to produce my USAS membership card to enter a meet (I've been in four over the last 2 years) since it is all done electronically through my club team, and presumably they check my membership against the national database.
I wish that USMS didn't require physical proof of membership to enter a meet -- that will probably come at some point -- but they ask for a copy of the card with the entry form. That is perhaps so that they can enter the USMS membership ID into the Meet Manager file ahead of time...and a luggage tag doesn't help with that. As a Top Ten recorder for my LMSC, I definitely appreciate it when they get the number right; showing your card at the meet check-in seems more error-prone to me.
As far as brand visibility, like Geek I have a sticker on my car. Good enough for me. I think Rob Butcher is working on "brand packaging" and I think he will do a great job. It is beyond my pay grade (since I work for free).
But doing it by giving my Registrar more work, and charging me more money, is something I'll fight against.
