[TheForge] Membership loss

[Bob Ehrenberger]

Bruce, when I was editor for BAM, I would get a list of members who failed
to renew from our treasurer and would call them. The main reason I heard
from the members was that they were just overcommited and they needed to
drop something.  The second reason was we needed to improve our educational
efforts, a lot of them had joined thinking that they would learn
blacksmithing but there weren't any classes in their area of the state.

Our best recruiting effort was demonstrating at the state fair every
summer. When I was doing a lot of demonstrations I would have sample
newsletters to give to anyone that showed serious interest.
Having a newsletter is pretty important.



-- 
Bob Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo
573-231-9324