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wrote: The League needs to recognize/concede that it has a serious marketing problem and address the problem the same way other businesses do in these situations. They have a product line which isn't selling to a large sector of their potential buyers. Why? Nobody actually knows. And nobody will know until the League finds out why the Techs aren't buying their wares. Here's one big reason: The League is a *national* organization. Focused mostly on national, international, and regional issues, and not so much local ones. Now if a ham's focus and interest are national or international, the League can have a lot to offer. But at the local level, how much the ARRL can offer someone depends entirely on who the local folks are. Which is almost entirely a function of the quality of the leadership of the local clubs and the time and effort they have available to put into the clubs. Which the League can't control or do anything about no matter how they reshuffle the organization and event charts in Newington. Beyond that the facts are that the League has only managed to sign up ~20% of all licensees in this country nocodes thru 20wpm Extras and some uncounted huge number of those aren't members of local clubs either. There's nothing new about any of it, this whole topic area has been massaged into oblivion many times in the past and it'll come up again after this minor cycle of angst peters out. As a prime example, look at QST. How much of it is devoted to purely local stuff? Not much - the mag would have to be huge to cover ever locality in any depth at all. So why should someone whose main interest in amateur radio is the folks within, say, 50 miles, shell out $40/yr for a membership? That question has already been answered by a several hundred thousand zipped-up wallets. Don't get me wrong though. I'm quite firmly convinced that the ARRL can and needs to boost it's support amongst the Techs but I'll stick with my proposal vs. Hans' proposal. 73 de Jim, N2EY w3rv |
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wrote I'll stick with my proposal vs. Hans' proposal. Is there a copy of your proposal that I can point my browser at? I'd be interested in your view. 73, de Hans, K0HB |
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K=D8HB wrote: wrote I'll stick with my proposal vs. Hans' proposal. Is there a copy of your proposal that I can point my browser at? I'd be interested in your view. Oh fer chrissake, spare me will you Master Chief SIR, I clearly stated that the ARRL should engage in a business-like market research effort to find out how to connect with the non-member Techs rather than go off on your fuzzy tangent. =20 =20 73, de Hans, K0HB w3rv |
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KØHB wrote:
wrote I'll stick with my proposal vs. Hans' proposal. Is there a copy of your proposal that I can point my browser at? I'd be interested in your view. He kind of gave it, Hans. Hire a marketing firm. My concern is that Marketing firms tend to work to the lowest common denominater. Not what we need. Marketing is what gave us Ketchup that you can't get out of a bottle (Thicker!.... Richer!) and milkshakes that you have to eat with jackhammer.... - Mike KB3EIA - |
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