Re: AOMCI registrations

[johnyrude200]

I agree with most of the points you made T2, except there is a pretty major thing not mentioned.

Baby boomers. There is a reason why the attrition rate is going to be mich higher than typically, and respectfully to you I disagree with the idea that “what’s worked before is good enough.”

This isnt the same set of circumstances as 20 years ago. You have a natural attrition related to an anomaly in our country’s birth rate (baby boomers), and 20 years ago the internet was a novelty and the way you reached out to people was organic.

Again, the dinosaur became extinct because it didnt adapt.

Funding, from what the club grape vine seems to indicate, comes up alot as running low. Well club or not, the business and strategic plan used and how that is planned, prioritized, and executed directly impacts what happens with any organization.

I pose this question to our E.C.and more importantly our president: what is the plan in place?

My personal opinion is that

1. Membership dues are too little. If people refuse to pay $35.00, let alone mandatory $5.00/meet, thats just sad and folks need to stop being so cheap. And cheap isnt the wrong adjective to describe anyone balking at those prices.

2. Regardless of what a reader thinks of the outboarder, there should be an option to receive that electronically if desired. I guarantee that would reduce production costs IMMEDIATELY. I have been a member of plenty of other organizations, and I cant think of one that still produces hard copies. Just savings on postage alone would be significant let alone print costs for something in color!

3. There should be a more formal meet structure, simple as requiring name tags which shows whos paid and who hasnt. A portion of meet proceeds (if applicable) should go back to the main office for funding along with attendee contact info. How hard would it be for a monthly email to go out to everyone in the club discussing merts and hot topics. Emails cost $0.00. Time to compose yes, but not to send. Its 2018, not 1984. The club needs to evolve to the times.

4. There should be paid travel expenses for EC members to have an annual meeting, and once in the ‘black’ on the books, for individual chapter presidents or at the least a stipend to offset travel costs for an annual meeting. Do it at a national meet on a rotsting schedule to br more fair to folks from different regions. Chapter presidents (that is, the ones who care), are the supposed voice of their region, state, etc. how does the EC really know what members want right now other than occasional word of mouth?

6. EC members should receive an annal stipend. Volunteerism is great. But not many people have interest in full time charity work unless you hit the powerball. Time is money as they say.

7. Tranparency on strategic goals as to what the mission and vision statements for the club are. The mission statement may stay the same, but the vision statement is a living document. Any organization that does not maintain these will simply fail. That is 1 universal truth Ive seen over, and over, and over.

You brought up the point of voicing our opinion to the EC. Well what is the channel to do this? Certainly not our club homepage. So who do we write into and how is it reviewed?

My general point is without structure and a system followed by execution, which I certainly am not aware of any existing, basically from a principle standpoint this is akin to “flying by the seat of your pants.”

I spent 5 years working for free, averaging 60 hrs a week 50 weeks a year. I get the whole, “Im a volunteer kiss my butt if you dont like it” mentality. But at the end of the day folks dont need to work for free in a non-profit with a little application of organizational administration. I mean, SNHU (Soutnern NH University) is a top 500 revenue organization about 5 mins from me and they are non profit. Plenty getting done over there and nobody is working for free.