You Can Have Your "Recession"

by Kevin on April 13, 2009 · 5 comments

Too many posts on the ASAE listserves about how to cut costs (”give raises? oh my are you kidding? we’re lucky to have jobs!”) and not enough — in fact none that I’ve seen — about how to make more money. Give me a break, people. You can fritter away hours writing and reading posts about silly things like Twitter but it never occurred to you that maybe you should be thinking instead about how to make money by doing new things (or doing old things in new ways)? My disgust with the listserves (and perhaps associations in general) has reached its apex. For the record, March 2009 was our highest sales month since March 1999.

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1 Jeff De Cagna April 13, 2009 at 8:13 pm

Kevin, glad to see your two week vacation didn’t mellow you out at all. :>)

2 Kevin April 13, 2009 at 8:25 pm

Actually, the scary thing is, I think it DID mellow me out …

3 Jeff De Cagna April 13, 2009 at 9:13 pm

If that’s the case, I shudder to think what you would have written in this post without the vacation! Can you say, “Going nuclear?” Welcome home! ;>)

4 Wes Trochlil April 14, 2009 at 11:28 am

Here here! You can’t shrink your way to greatness. Your choices are to hunker down and hope to survive, or bear down, get creative, move forward, and THRIVE.

5 Tony Rossell April 14, 2009 at 4:40 pm

Kevin — Great points. I quoted you in a piece that I just submitted for Associations Now. I think that I voiced some similar thoughts with what you shared here. Tony

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