Re: [AGA SC] DAL resigning (fwd)

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

Grasshoppers that stand still get eaten. It's good that
you're thinking. I've been planning for a while to try to
do more if it myself. ;-)

These are good ideas.

sh


--- Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@wilstream.com> wrote:
> Okay, David, et al, here's some of what I've been
> thinking.
> 
> The AGA needs to be treated like a business. A business
> does not open its 
> doors and hope the customers come in. It must actively
> promote itself. I 
> think we need an Advertising and Promotions Committee.
> 
> I am shortly going to submit to the Board my Membership
> Committee's own 
> small efforts in that direction. However, in the course
> of my research, and 
> our discussion, there have been many good ideas (past and
> present) that I 
> have had to put off or cull out because they are outside
> the Realm of 
> Membership and in the World of Promotion. Ever-aware of
> the constant need 
> for new volunteers when we take on new activities, I have
> tried to plan 
> initiatives that I believe will be most profitable, yet
> that we on the 
> Membership Committee can implement by ourselves.
> 
> David Lass's contributions to the Board, and his
> individual efforts, always 
> make sound business sense. He has personally proposed and
> then actively led 
> several ventures that were in the World of Promotions and
> outside the Dark 
> Cave of Treasurer.
> 
> I have several ideas to share with the head of such a
> committee. David or 
> whoever could do as much or as little as he likes,
> because at this point, 
> *something* is better than *nothing.*
> 
> If I have stepped out of line here, or gone against
> protocal, then I ask 
> the Board to forgive this ignorant grasshopper.
> 
> Cheryl
> 
> Karen Randall wrote:
> 
> > I think we have to ask him about the second one
> first.<g>
> > 
> > Karen
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Cheryl Rogers, Membership
> Aquatic Gardeners Association
> http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org
> 
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