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. It's quite impressive for him to sit back at his computer proposing ideas for other people's time (and for ignoring comments about running volunteers into the ground)... :coffee:
A puny LMSC like Arizona can handle stuffing some envelopes and laminating tags. :banana: But once again, what about the LMSCs that are much larger? What may work for one LMSC doesn't necessarily work for another LMSC and it is rather arrogant to think otherwise.
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.
Jeff...I think Doug did a fine job of answering your question...it really isn't that hard for people who really are interested in thinking a bit outside the box and looking to ways to build buisness.
And since you seem to be skimming my posts and missing the point I'll say it again...this is not about bag tags....this is about the bigger picture of USMS and how even the most basic of areas that we can brand build are not being executed.
Countless times I have proposed ideas about how we might attempt to grow brand awareness of USMS beyond the very small circle we exist in and time and again I get defensive posturing and the "why we can't" BS...so for the record guys just because I don't think we have maximized our oppurtunites to grow and I think posting ideas in an attempt to create discussion about possiblities is not in any way, shape or form saying you suck...OK...maybe a bit with you Chris! :)
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. It's quite impressive for him to sit back at his computer proposing ideas for other people's time (and for ignoring comments about running volunteers into the ground)... :coffee:
A puny LMSC like Arizona can handle stuffing some envelopes and laminating tags. :banana: But once again, what about the LMSCs that are much larger? What may work for one LMSC doesn't necessarily work for another LMSC and it is rather arrogant to think otherwise.
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.
Jeff...I think Doug did a fine job of answering your question...it really isn't that hard for people who really are interested in thinking a bit outside the box and looking to ways to build buisness.
And since you seem to be skimming my posts and missing the point I'll say it again...this is not about bag tags....this is about the bigger picture of USMS and how even the most basic of areas that we can brand build are not being executed.
Countless times I have proposed ideas about how we might attempt to grow brand awareness of USMS beyond the very small circle we exist in and time and again I get defensive posturing and the "why we can't" BS...so for the record guys just because I don't think we have maximized our oppurtunites to grow and I think posting ideas in an attempt to create discussion about possiblities is not in any way, shape or form saying you suck...OK...maybe a bit with you Chris! :)
