Coin Clubs

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@Proof Nut, thanks for the club listing link.

That's one of the biggest problems with the Internet. Too much information that is out of date and often unverifiable, Websites or domain names that no longer exist, etc. etc.

While they all start with good intentions, some eventually stop updating shows and information. Here's one that I recently found http://www.thecoinlook.com/index.htm that no longer includes club shows. The club info cannot be verified solely through this site as there is little or no contact info to start with.

Many of the websites that I've stumbled on have terrible misinformation(listing long deceased persons as contacts) as the person responsible for submitting the info never bothered to follow up or lost track of the website. Keeping these udated is a lot of extra work on the part of the webmaster who is providing a free service like Brian Smith http://www.canadiancoin.com/who added a great drop down menu on his home page. Plenty of others try to charge for listings and I've lost track of all the places you can find Numismatic show and club information.

I know in my particular case, I have to make a list of where, what and to whom I send club or show information as they will not go out of their way to contacting me if I forget next year. Seems like an easy thing to remember but it's not. Wherever possible I try to keep a list or file of links so that I can quickly contact them to make changes, update ads and provide a record for the club executive of what the public is seeing regarding advertising.

Quite a few clubs in Canada are unaware that Canadian Coin News has a Club Listings Page. If the current generation cannot quickly find out about the club by doing a simple search, it will be even tougher to get them to a meeting. Key here is to have an email contact and/or phone # wherever possible. No one nowadays is going to type or hand write a letter asking about the club.

WCS tries to use a mix of old and new (Mall Promo Days, Community Channel advertising, Local City websites (K-W) and of course lots of promotion by visiting neighbouring clubs, attending area shows and through the Provincial and National collecting organizations.

Still, while we may be fortunate to add a dozen or more new members each year this way, it's a real struggle at times to maintain our numbers, particularly around renewal time.