On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Cheryl Rogers wrote:
These numbers were generated with the last TAG mailing, which was just before the convention. No, I don't think we got many more members out of it. BUT folks are still renewing; I have only sent one renewal notice since the convention.
As I just mentioned to Scott, keep in mind that (1) all those fly-by-night members who joined in 2003 for the convention would now be expiring just as any new ones for 2004 joined, and (2) I don't think there were a lot of simultaneous membership/convention regs (my gut says 10-15).
If we were to hold steady at about this level and non-us memberhips were increasing, we'd have an even unhappier situation.I don't understand.
Scott is suggesting that if membership is being held steady at a constant number (say 800) and non-US memberships are increasing, then simple math would say that US membership must be decreasing. However, this is not the case... in fact, membership, as I pointed out a few days back, is actually going UP overall. When we did the big purge in spring of 2003, we had 776 members left. That year we got it up to 841, and then 835. In 2004, membership was 818, 845, 881 and 850 for the four mailings, significantly BETTER than 2003. So the premise that membership is staying constant just simply isn't true. However, US membership is statistically constant, the datapoints for TAG mailings being: 664 (purge), 716, 712, 685, 704, 739, 708.
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