PRA Membership Drive

[barnstorm2]

To help bring PRA membership back up to previous numbers ( and beyond! ) we proudly announce:

The PRA membership drive contest!!

The prizes for the contest will continue to grow as donations are made.

Current prize status will be posted here and on the PRA Chapter 34 web site:

www.chapter34.com

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Rules:
Winners of First and Second prize must sign up at least 5 or more members on or before October 1, 2004.

First place = 75% of drive pot

Second place = 25% of drive pot

Runners up will receive other donated items as available.

Pot donators will be listed on this forum and the PRA34 web site.

Winner(s) will be announced Saturday October 16, 2004

Applicants must submit names and PRA member numbers of recruits to prachapter34@yahoo.com no later than October 9, 2004

Renewals do not count.

[Heron]

Tell me what is so great about been a PRA member and I will renew . . .
I am a member in two Gyro Clubs and it is great, I miss going to Sunstate meetings, but I know they are doing something for the gyro comunity.
PRA is by far the worst case of how not to run an association and they give new meanings to the words amateur and experimental.
And the more I know about their dealings the more I do not like it!
Heron :-

[barnstorm2]

Current 'POT' status ( donations ) as of March 26, 2004

Donations for 1st and 2ond Place Prize:

Tim OConnor $100

Harry Sieckmann $100

Rotarywing Forum 2- T-Shirts


Donations for Runners Up:

[barnstorm2]

Heron,

I do not know specificly what the PRA has done to upset you.

What I can say is that membership gives you a vote in who functions as PRA leadership and I feel we need representation as an avaition community.

There is a PRA thread elsewhere for discussing PRA issues, I was hopeing to use this one for the drive updates.

I would like to hear that you have or will renew your membership. Unfortunatly for contest counting renewals dont count just new members.

[barnstorm2]

In order to 'get the word out' about the Membership Drive we will need to get mention in Norms forum if and when it comes back up and the PRA magazine.

Any other ideas for getting the word out?

[Dean_Dolph]

Why not use the PRA Chapter Coordinator to help promote this? I know a new person took responsibility last year but don't know what has been done so far and my short memory won't bring up his name. I do recall he resides in the Northwest.

[barnstorm2]

Thank you Dean,

I will get out my copy of Rotorcraft and look into it.

Thanks!

[barnstorm2]

Dean,

I looked it up the name in the last Rotorcraft is Richard 'Dick' Moore.

No email address is given on pra.org.

I will compose an open letter to the PRA and vendors and post a draft here for everyone to critique'.

[barnstorm2]

I need everyone 2 cents!

Todd I we will also need your permission on this as well. Please help.


Here is my 1st draft for a letter to send out:

Dear PRA / Rotorcraft Vendor

I am proud to announce that the members of www.rotaryforum.com have initiated a PRA membership drive contest.

If successful, we hope to begin raising PRA membership numbers back to and above previous numbers.

As we all know PRA membership is critical in countless ways to our sport.

Please visit http://www.prachapter34.com/Member%20Drive.htm for details on the drive contest.

The reason I am writing to you is to ask for your support.

How can you support the drive? Donations of discounts, coupons, T-shirts, stickers, product and of course cash will increase the motivation for the contest. There is a first and second place cash winner plus we hope to have a number of runner up positions. The number of runner up positions will depend heavily on additional prize donations.

All donors will be listed in the advertising for the drive. If you donate please let me know if I can include your logo on the drive web page and flyers.

If you are unable to donate please pass the word about our efforts.

Thank you!

-Tim O’Connor and the Rotaryforum Community.

[barnstorm2]

The letter to the PRA board and Rotorcraft Mag editor would include:


We would also like to request this drive be announced in ROTORCRAFT magazine. We do not have the budget to run an ad so we would be looking for this space to be donated.

[Kevin_Richey]

Tim:

If you want to talk with Dick Moore (past chapter president of PRA Chapter 73), his cell phone number (which is paid for by the chapter & dedicated to the Chapter Coordinator position and PRA purposes) and his email info is located at the PRA Chapter 73 website at:

www.pra73.net

Click on the "members" tab to locate it.

Dean was right...Dick lives in McMinnville, Oregon.

[Heron]

I have been to many airports and they all have good to decent facilities (FBO?)
Just here in the area (75 miles around Fort Worth) you can count 41 airports (I did).
There are posters and brochures at this places and not one about gyros, how about we change that?
Advertise our magazine (here I go including myself) it could bring subscribers and more members in the future.
I would love to get the magazine without been a member . . .til thing change and I apply again.
Will I have teh same number of that is going to be another deal?
Heron

[barnstorm2]

There was a good brochure that was uploaded to the old forum. I think I have the file around here somewhere. I will post it if I find it.

I also made a larger expanded brochure but 2 issues:

1. It is in pagemaker format

2. I don't have written permission on all of the photos I used. I just grabbed some off the web. I only made it to give to friends not commerical advertisement.

If anyone is intrested in the files let me know and I will make them available.

Another good thing to place around airport pilot lounge are old issues of ROTORCRAFT. It is a great magazine and I think you can still buy a box of old issues cheap. I would like to have at least one copy of the old issues for myself but extras are great things to pass around.

[ToddP]

Tim,

The letter looks great, you have my endorsement for the forum.

Great Work!

Todd

[barnstorm2]

Thanks!

I'll start sending it out this week.