-=> Quoting Pete Donahue to All <=- 
 PD> graduates now living in the San antonio area.  I believe that Alan was 
 PD> quite corect in saying that the only way you    can sell a product or a 
 PD> service is to use it and believe in it yourself before you can discuss 
 PD> it's strengths and weaknesses with others.  Anyone who has been in 
 PD> businewss for himself or herself understands this very well or they 
 PD> wouldn't make it in most businesses. Thus the only we feel that is 
 PD> quallifieed to try to sell others in attending one of our training 
 PD> centers is someone who has gone through a center and has received the 
 PD> training and is in a position to discuss tthese programmes at the gut 
 PD> level; 
 
Yes, this is of course the best way to sell something.  However, if one has 
been
observant, and watched people before they go and afterwords, and seen 
ositive
changes, this is also something that can be sold.
 PD> rough going whare membership recruitment is concerned.  Mary and I 
 PD> along with other chapter members have worked tirelesly to bring new 
 PD> members in to our chapter but the mention of the nfb to many ofthem 
 PD> sends them running for cover.  And this has been going on even before 
 PD> we moved here.  But the situation is slowly starting to change.  We 
 PD> have picked up a few new members during the last several years and we 
 PD> now have a good core group, but things could be much better.  We expect 
 PD> to bring in some more members who objected to a Sunday Afternoon 
 PD> Chapter meeting.  We will now meet on the third saturday of the month 
 PD> from 10 a.m to 12 p.m.  No native San Antonian has attended any of our 
 PD> training centers but I am sure that that too will change.  
  
Yes, membership is a problem for any organization.  There are people 
everywhere
who run away from the NFB.  Basically, we have to get people one person at a
time.  It is often best to befriend people first, so they see we aren't green
and have two heads, aren't violent radicals, or anything like that.
Good luck and have a good Holiday season.
David andrews
... Security, confine Ensign Donahue to the brig.
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