<VV> HERE'S HOW TO FIX CORSA

[J R Read_HML]

Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing!

You just rang my bell.

At National (and hopefully Regional) conventions - You must first be a CORSA 
member in order to be eligible to register for the convention.  ID badges 
are given out - with your name, and sometimes "local" club affiliation.

Some of the "indoor" vendors offer a discount to CORSA members.  The 
hospitality (aka - jokingly, hostility) room is for CORSA members only.  Why 
do we allow non-CORSA members access to the indoor vendors and/or to the 
hospitality room?  Actually, I think you need to pay the convention 
registration AND wear your convention tag to get in there.

Perhaps the CORSA "tent" - whatever the heck the thing is called - should be 
located at the entrance to either the hospitality or the indoor vendor room. 
Sometimes they are the same room - depending upon the layout of the 
particular host hotel facility.  So - the pitch is, "Yessir/mam, we'd love 
to have you join us as a club member in this room, and do you realize that 
if you sign up for a membership right now, you will get money off at the 
vendors?

My second membership/revenue idea this week.  The first was only revenue 
oriented - but did not draw a single comment.  Maybe we were too busy 
answering tech questions?  I don't THINK so.

Later, JR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Rodriguez III" <ravensong13 at verizon.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> HERE'S HOW TO FIX CORSA


 attending a CORSA show doesn't require CORSA
> membership.
>
> I'm not saying that I don't benefit from CORSA's existence which is 
> possible
> only because of those of us who DO pay our dues... I'm saying that the 
> only
> benefit I get as a DIRECT result of paying CORSA dues is the Communique'.
>
> I could add to your list of the ways CORSA benefits us....  if you
> participate in a CORSA sanctioned racing event you benefit from CORSA paid
> insurance (but you dont have to be a member of CORSA to particpate in a
> local club event that I know of do you?)  If you need a part that CORSA
> aided in the development of you are benefitting.. but dont have to be a
> CORSA member to buy it, If you visit the CORVAIR museum you are 
> benefitting
> from it... but you dont have to be a member to get in do you?
>
> It's a shame.. but a LOT of folks look at things like paying club dues in
> terms of WIFM?  I learned about WIFM in real estate sales....   "What's in
> it for me?"  They are going to pass on paying the dues to join when they
> find out they arent going to get hardly anything but a magazine in
> return....  and an awful lot of folks won't care about whether or not they
> are contributing to the finances of this club that benefits them whether
> they are a member or not.
>
> Maybe we should see if we can get all the major CORVAIR vendors to 
> increase
> their prices slightly all around, and offer all currently PAID UP CORSA
> members a discount.. that would be a start.
>
>
> Also keep in mind that the perspective I offer is from the POV of a CORSA
> member who's nearest "local" Corvair club is over an hour away from 
> home...
> and happens to be a largely race focused group... whereas I am not really
> much interested in racing.  As a result I am not a member of that club
> (though I would be anyway if it was closer).  I'm sure there are LOTS of
> CORSA members or potential members who are not/would not be local club
> members....  though that is somewhat a moot point since local clubs dont
> require CORSA membership anyway.
>
> Ray Rodriguez III
> Lake Ariel, PA
> CORSA member
> 66' Corsa 140/4 hot rodded coupe
> 65' Corsa 140/4 under construction
>
>
>
>
>> Really?  Nothing you say?  You're aware that most, if not all, of the
>> significant VV contributors are CORSA members?
>>
>> I just brought this up at our club meeting:
>>
>> "If you come to a meeting and someone works on your car, that's a  CORSA
>> benefit.  If you buy a part from a CORSA member, that's a CORSA  benefit.
>> If you ask me a question, if you go to a show, or sell a  part here, it's
>> a CORSA benefit.  Now, if that's not worth what the  dues cost, fair
>> enough.  But you're getting a benefit from CORSA  whether you like it or
>> not."
>>
>> That's my position.
>>
>> --Bryan
>
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