<VV> Increasing CORSA's income

[Robert Marlow]

Still tilting at this windmill, Hank?

At 07:27 AM 2/15/2009, henry kaczmarek wrote:

>This same Ya-Hoo was the driving force behind the purchase of the "CORSA
>Kiosk" that was supposed to bring in dozens of new members.  The result?
>Used infrequently, like at National Concours

While I was not on the Board at the time the kiosk was approved, had 
I been on the Board I would have supported the idea.  The problem is 
not that we bought the kiosk, it is that we failed to utilize it.  As 
you yourself wrote, it has been "used infrequently."  Instead of 
being set up at our Concours, it should have been set up elsewhere, 
OUTSIDE our organization, to promote our organization.

A couple of years ago, the Corvair was to be the feature car at a 
large and well-established AACA show here in the Northeast.  I 
arranged to get that kiosk to the show and I arranged to have it 
stocked with CORSA materials and staffed with Corvair 
enthusiasts.  Before that, I arranged to get it to a local speedway 
that was having a Corvair night on a race night, putting CORSA before 
thousands of motorheads.

Did these activities result in any new CORSA members?  I don't know, 
because I did not track any results, but I think they are examples of 
how that kiosk was intended to be used and how we, as a group, failed 
to utilize an asset.

And "utilize an asset" is a key phrase.  It was an utter waste to buy 
that kiosk if all we were going to do was keep it to ourselves by 
setting it up at our own conventions and not doing any outside 
promotion.  There is no collective will to do the work.  Exactly as 
Lon Wall suggested in an earlier message.

Hank, you're just honked off all these years later because this same 
director opposed CORSA's funding of the Basics book.  The book got 
funded and it was a success.  Move on.

( I still love ya, Hank, it's just that I, like you, have 
strongly-held opinions.)

--Bob