It amazed me that with 30 or so contacts in Ohio that all had _valid_ email
addresses, the only respondents to my near-spam like efforts this spring to
draw people out of the current NANFA member woodwork in Ohio were the usual
suspects and a single new addition to our usual suspects (who has been a
fantastic addition to the "crew" and I'm very glad I'd made the effort :)
No "Hi", no "Who are you?", no "Leave me alone". While this is in line with
a normal direct marketing statistics (expected return on investment), it
doesn't exactly make jump up and down to spend a bunch of additional money
to duplicate what Bob has found out (and probably coincides with the same
statistics).
I think the only reason that NANFA could appear to be an "Internet Club" is
because the _active membership_ has found that it's much more conveinent and
less expensive to do their communications over the Internet... Not that a
subsection of NANFA has moved forward and left a large part of the club
behind.
Todd
>
> The thought just struck me--perhaps a short article in NANFA acknowledging
> the problem, and advising non-Internet capable NANFA members to contact
> their regional rep/contacts about being added to a phone list. In
addition
> to our e-mail announcements, we could call those few members who express
> interest in going out on a trip.
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