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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 782, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Live and in Person</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I guess my preference is for a real club.&nbsp; You can meet people online and I do that, as we all do. </p><p><br /></p><p>Even so, I value the interpersonal interactions of being in a room with real people.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>With a coin club, even when it is going great guns, you might get half of the members to show up for any given meeting.&nbsp; Websites and newsletters are important tools for keeping in touch with your straying lambs.</p><p><br /></p><p>A coin club is a lot of work for one person.&nbsp; Howver, neither can you wait until you find enough people dumb as you are to do their share of the work.&nbsp; My feeling is that it is sort of a &quot;build it and they will come&quot; kind of thing.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Patience helps.&nbsp; Years of patience, sometimes.&nbsp; After rebuilding the local club from scratch the president wanted to resign after three years.&nbsp; Well, he got to step down after four... because I came along as Veep and Newsletter editor... which worked ok for a while...&nbsp; then there was this vacuum... but as long as you maintain the momentum, the club can coast.</p><p><br /></p><p>See in Rec.Collecting.Coins, Gary Lewis&#039;s request for &quot;Out of the Box Ideas&quot; for local coin clubs.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>You can start a club with two other collectors meeting you at the local Big Boy.&nbsp; You don&#039;t need torchlight parades to have a successful organization.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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