leanlion Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Should DCI offer DCA their business services? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Could you be more specific 2L? There has been discussions before on this site about merging and trying to have both organizations compete at a few shows, but not against each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leanlion Posted November 2, 2015 Author Share Posted November 2, 2015 Not a merger but more akin to property management services common in the real estate business. DCI's approach to conducting the season's organizational issues far exceed DCA abilities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Not familiar with DCA's organizational model and whether they need help. What area do you feel they need help/assistance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRASSO Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 (edited) Should DCI offer DCA their business services? Only if requested by DCA, imo. Otherwise, a collaboration already occurs between DCA and DCI on occasion. Those that are familiar with the formation of DCI are aware that when several Junior Corps were thinking of combining together and forming their own circuit, they approached DCA Board of Directors ( and Jim Costello, the then DCA Executive Director ) in 1971 to request advice on how to go about creating their new circuit. DCA ( formed in 1965 ) were more than willing to assist them with that consultive business advice service, so DCA officials met with these Jr. Corps Reps, gave their advice, recommendations, and these grateful Junior Corps reps then later incorporated many of those ideas in their infrastructure, by laws, and institutional formation of their new circuit, that they later named "Drum Corps International " ( DCI ), in 1972. Edited November 2, 2015 by BRASSO 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimF-LowBari Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Not sure what is meant by "property management" or "organizational issues". Thought the FN work was pretty much under DCI or at least whoever does the work for DCI started doig it for DCA few years back. Too bad that workload dropped off with the copyright mess..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 that they later named "Drum Corps International " ( DCI ), in 1972. Didn't they first plan on calling the circuit Drum Corps America or USA until De La Salle Oaklands asked "what about the Canadian corps"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Thunder Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Didn't they first plan on calling the circuit Drum Corps America or USA until De La Salle Oaklands asked "what about the Canadian corps"? They had initially used the name Drum Corps National. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Ream Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 DCA could definitely use some help with marketing, but the big key is that DCI has a paid full time staff in the office, DCA doesn't. Both are similar in that money made is earmarked to get back out to corps after expenses, but DCI brings in a lot more. If you're a show host, you buy the show package from DCi, which covers fees for admin, corps etc. DCA you pay for judges and admin, then negotiate with each corps one on one. I do expect with some administrative change in DCA coming, you may see some change in how the business runs. I doubt it'll turn out to be DCI junior, but there may be more overlapping similarities 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HornTeacher Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Only if and when "DCI" stand for "Delectable Concubines International." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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