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  • From: "William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Getting the word out WAS Re: NNGA membership declines
  • Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:10:36 -0500


I don't think you lose anyone important if they can't be bothered to write a
check and stamp an envelope. If they aren't interested enough in fruit trees
to write out a check, I'm also quite sure they would have nothing to
contribute to NAFEX.


I suppose it depends on who you consider important. I have a lot of interests competing for my attention. I'm not young, but I'm a beginner at fruit growing. I'm enjoying it, but I'm not obsessed with it, to the exclusion of everything else. If you make it easy for me to join NAFEX, I'm sure I will. If not, I might get around to it and I might not. As I say, I have a LOT of interests, and NAFEX isn't the only group competing for my attention. Those that make it especially easy to join - and to renew - have a big advantage.

Now, I'm sure I'm not "important" to the group, except that the whole point of this discussion was to increase membership. That means bringing in newbies like me - and younger newbies, in particular. They might indeed have "nothing to contribute to NAFEX" right now, except their questions. But if this is what you want, then you might as well accept a declining membership.

Bill

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