[CLUE-Admin] Memberships and email

[Crawford Rainwater]

If someone wishes to be point on this, the CLUE-North
Lackies can assist as well.  As long as there is a general
guideline for membership that is known, having Dave, Gus,
Joanne, and/or myself make the general pitch each meeting
and do membership sales at the same time should be easy.

Questions I can see is "who to make the check out to?"
for one though.

We can talk about this some at the InstallFest.  I should
be getting there somewhere between 10AM and 10:30AM more 
or less and staying for a bit since my 16-port switch will
be available to folks that need it for internet access
along with Gus's SMC WAP/switch.

--- Crawford

> -----Original Message-----
> From: clue-admin-admin at clue.denver.co.us
> [mailto:clue-admin-admin at clue.denver.co.us]On Behalf Of Lynn Danielson
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 6:52 PM
> To: clue-admin at clue.denver.co.us
> Subject: Re: [CLUE-Admin] Memberships and email
> 
> 
> Crawford Rainwater wrote:
> 
> >What is the plan for the membership drive at the CLUE-North
> >meeting next Thursday?
> >  
> >
> 
> Good question.  From our last admin meeting it sounded like
> we were going to be working more as a single entity from now
> on.  Doug volunteered to be sponsor coordinator for both groups.
> While I'd be willing to come up to the North meeting this month
> (and probably next) I'm not willing to commit to making every
> North meeting.   So, how would you like to coordinate this?
> 
> One of the things I was planning to do is print pin-on name badges
> for the members.  I've been debating how to manage these.  I'd like
> to hand them out (or have them sitting out on the door prize table)
> for people to pick up when they come in.  Giving them a door
> prize ticket as they pick up their badge.  The biggest problem with
> this is going to be getting everyone to remember to turn their
> badge back in at the end of the meeting.  I didn't mind incurring
> the expense of some badges initially, but if we need to continue
> reissuing them, the cost could become significant.  The sticky backed
> badges are cheaper.
> 
> I had planned to offer a temporary membership for $3 at the door
> which would be good for the night of the meeting and allow
> people to participate in the door prize drawing without paying for
> an annual membership.  But the more I've thought about this,
> especially in light of the sign up response we got on Tuesday, the
> more I'm inclined not to.
> 
> And how to renew a membership.  I'm inclined to keep this simple
> as well and charge a flat $20 due every October meeting.  I'm also
> not inclined to prorate the membership.  Maybe in April we could
> drop the membership cost to half price.
> 
> I suspect some folks are going to complain about this, either
> expecting a membership to be good for a full year from the
> time they joined or expect a prorate reduction if it's less than
> a year.  But since we're only asking $20, I'd rather keep it
> simple.  If we were to cover the cost of the room ourselves,
> we'd either need to charge something like $50 bucks for a
> membership or $4/$5 at the door.
> 
> Anyway, back to the point for your question.  I'd be happy to show
> up on Thursday night to pitch for membership, but we probably
> need to discuss how you or someone else at the North group will
> coordinate membership collections with Jeff and I.  I've started a
> notebook dedicated to for membership sign up.  I'm getting a full
> name (printed) and a preferred email address for the CLUE alias.
> I'm dating the top of each page so that I know when folks signed
> up.  I plan to enter these into a file or table soon.
> 
> Let me know if you have any problems, questions or suggestions
> with the above.
> 
> Lynn
> 
> 
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