Jordan Addresses Concerns From Nudists About AANR

My last post Bill Schroer Goes on the Record About Being Fired by AANR started up a excellent dialogue and energetic yet positive debate (YAY!!!). In the remarks section, there were quite a few points brought up by several different people that I believed should be addressed all together in a new article. So since the dust has settled a bit, I shall address these added concerns here one by one.
First, merely to get it out of the way Many have mentioned the lack of AANR participation within my coverage of the issue. I simply wanted to let everyone know that yes, I did email with Beverly but she turned down my offer to be interviewed "on the record."
So after approaching several others, I was left without any official AANR voice that was gloomy, but not surprising.
Now, here are some of the main points / issues that folks brought up.
Concerns by Naturists About AANR
Since I am no longer an AANR member, some folks had said that I don't have a right to talk about this dilemma.
Just like I have the right have an opinion about the NRA, I see no reason this same reasoning would not apply in a field that I 'm very active in.
Some had said that I am merely out to get AANR.
For the record, I'm not anti anything. Not even AANR! [https:/s3.amazonaws.com/viva-naturist/nudists-xxx.html https:/s3.amazonaws.com/viva-naturist/nudists-xxx.html] , in its preceding cycle, has had many amazing accomplishments. I just wish I could say exactly the same about today's AANR. Nevertheless , once they do, I will be the first (I expect) to point those out!
I do, nevertheless, have powerful ideological issues with the manner AANR is being run, managed and promoted in addition to certain policies they enforce (and undoubtedly the ones they choose to discount). girl nudist will be on the record for differing with their forced membership policies, with the fact which they don't drive 100% AANR clubs adhere to 100% of AANR's morals / ethics (as AANR present them), the fact that they're inconsistent with the manner they address clubs and so forth.
For those of you who are asserting that I am out to get AANR I would merely like to say when you would have read my coverage of the Bill Schroer dilemma, you'd have seen that I spent a ton of time researching, keeping an open mind and doing my absolute best to pass along the facts as best I could. All this without any official help from AANR (though not for a lack of trying).
Why even bring up the AANR issue?
Since AANR themselves did not care to address or advise their members on the particulars, I merely sought to learn what happened. Many FKK'ers are also AANR members and I for one, believe it's essential for us and them to know what AANR is doing.
I chose to share those findings on our site because I'm in favor of transparency. Aside from any issues you may have with me personally, if you failed to like the dilemmas in the article then you certainly can take up your concerns with AANR - stop shooting the messenger and start focusing on the actual problems!
Some said that I / FKK have not tried to help AANR.
For those of you who called me out for not supporting AANR let me simply point out a few facts:
For the last three to four years, I've been attempting to get AANR to do a positive piece about their accomplishments and future goals.
I've offered to help them with their online issues. The areas I believed I could really affect their organization would function as facets that pertain to AANR and the net. It's no big secret that AANR has problems in communicating, PR, marketing, online reputation, social networking and membership outreach. FKK also has a more extensive reach and I believed I could help AANR strengthen their base and even grow it.
While I believed AANR would be happy to get any help they can, the responses I 've gotten from them were less than enthused. Several times they mocked my offer, other times they only said they appreciated the offer and would keep it in mind. I additionally, on quite a few occasions, had to e-mail them a few times only to get someone to email me back (an ongoing dilemma of theirs).
For those of you who may not know, the internet is where I thrive. I've worked along side firms for example google, yahoo and bing and even beta test their products when they ask me to. So when I offered to help AANR, I was a bit befuddled by their response. In the "real world" I could bill anywhere from $100 - $500 an hour for my view and yet, AANR saw no value in me or my opinion. So I simply quit offering.
And also:
We've generated good money for different clubs and have never asked for anything in return. We also signed up lots of our members to AANR. During certainly one of our summer gatherings we even had Jim from Juniper Woods (the president of AANR East at the time) give a talk about why he believes people should support AANR.
We provide nudist clubs to advertise on our site, yet very few see the worth is spending the $60 / month. I find this strange because we have a very targeted audience and if we were to charge $0.03 per click, we would be making a ton more cash! If this were any other industry, we'd be making quite a bit of money only from advertising earnings (and we would never be billing this kind of minute amount).
They see the value and we want them to succeed!
'FKK only gripes but offers no help to the nudist community.'
If you ask me, the biggest culprits for why Naturism / Naturism is decreasing in the U.S. are the resorts and clubs. Many aren't encouraging their company and others are going about it in the most back-ass-wards way potential.
While they do have legitimate reasons for worry, they truly are not willing to purchase the time and work we do. An individual's time has worth, particularly if they are doing something for someone else. If https://s3.amazonaws.com/ola-naturist/young-nudists-pics.html are not willing to put money into the radically reduced costs we offer, then why should we help? Yes, we'd be sad to see them go but we do need to eat.
And a side note about Naturism and the Internet:
I will keep hammering this message until people start to shift their approach.


The net is the cheapest and best approach to grow any following. If you lack the skills or know-how then hire someone or ask us for help (and please don't expect us to work for free - that would not be honest to anyone. Particularly since many resorts still charge us their day fees even when we go merely to write about them or even when we have events and create several thousand dollars for them while making pretty much nothing for ourselves).
So with that in mind, I'm just saying that if organizations, naturist clubs and naturist resorts do not begin changing their strategy, they'll not endure.
Nevertheless, Naturism and Nudism in and of themselves will survive.
I hope I had been able to articulate myself and address the biggest concerns that came about from your Bill Schroer/ AANR issue. That said, please comment and let me know if I lost anything.
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Jordan Blum is a lifelong nudie and cofounder of Naturist Portal.