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?
Other than outsourcing the work (which costs more money and I already get swimmers to complain about our $12 LMSC fee), I have yet to hear how Paul proposes the large LMSCs handle something like a bag tag.
You can hire a fulfillment company to do that work or a virtual assistant if the volunteer resources are not available. The LMSC exists to serve its members, one way is to build brand awareness. If this involves hiring/contracting with somebody who will do that work, so be it. This is the direction we are heading anyway on both the LMSC and national level.
A puny LMSC like Arizona can handle stuffing some envelopes and laminating tags.
862 swimmers puny?
Paul's idea is a much better one for the National Organization to consider. They would be better equipped to outsource and make it happen. Having it done at the LMSC level is simply not practical.
That might happen but experience shows that attempting to do anything on a national level is difficult at best. The LMSCs can show the way and experiment, this will provide information that others can analyze and use in their efforts. What works in one LMSC may not work in others but the more activity we engage in, the more data we will have to make decisions in the future.
The key is to take action and see what works. We are doing that in AZ and will let the others catch up when they are ready :)
Other than outsourcing the work (which costs more money and I already get swimmers to complain about our $12 LMSC fee), I have yet to hear how Paul proposes the large LMSCs handle something like a bag tag.
You can hire a fulfillment company to do that work or a virtual assistant if the volunteer resources are not available. The LMSC exists to serve its members, one way is to build brand awareness. If this involves hiring/contracting with somebody who will do that work, so be it. This is the direction we are heading anyway on both the LMSC and national level.
A puny LMSC like Arizona can handle stuffing some envelopes and laminating tags.
862 swimmers puny?
Paul's idea is a much better one for the National Organization to consider. They would be better equipped to outsource and make it happen. Having it done at the LMSC level is simply not practical.
That might happen but experience shows that attempting to do anything on a national level is difficult at best. The LMSCs can show the way and experiment, this will provide information that others can analyze and use in their efforts. What works in one LMSC may not work in others but the more activity we engage in, the more data we will have to make decisions in the future.
The key is to take action and see what works. We are doing that in AZ and will let the others catch up when they are ready :)
