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?
Chris...for the record I'm not upset nor am I bewildered. I am however a person who hates lost oppurtunity and untapped potential...USMS will be just fine with or without me or my suggestions...although it may be a little more boring on these forums with only Geek to stir the pot!
And to be clear I don't think there is a "problem" per se...what I do think is that there is tremendous potential to make USMS far more relevant to far more people with at least an attempt at a few basic brand building efforts.
The reason I ask about buisness backgrounds is that it would surprise me that someone who had one wouldn't recognize the value of basic, low cost, grass roots PR and marketing efforts. As Geek points out he at least gets a stick from USTA when he renews...the best advertising for USMS is the current membership out there everyday sporting the colors and talking the talk...so give them a little help doing that...it'll cost a heck of a lot less than a magazine ad in Shape!
As for Jeff...I'm just trying to get in his head because I'm swimming IM next year and need to work every angle I have to take him down!
Chris...for the record I'm not upset nor am I bewildered. I am however a person who hates lost oppurtunity and untapped potential...USMS will be just fine with or without me or my suggestions...although it may be a little more boring on these forums with only Geek to stir the pot!
And to be clear I don't think there is a "problem" per se...what I do think is that there is tremendous potential to make USMS far more relevant to far more people with at least an attempt at a few basic brand building efforts.
The reason I ask about buisness backgrounds is that it would surprise me that someone who had one wouldn't recognize the value of basic, low cost, grass roots PR and marketing efforts. As Geek points out he at least gets a stick from USTA when he renews...the best advertising for USMS is the current membership out there everyday sporting the colors and talking the talk...so give them a little help doing that...it'll cost a heck of a lot less than a magazine ad in Shape!
As for Jeff...I'm just trying to get in his head because I'm swimming IM next year and need to work every angle I have to take him down!
