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Re: [AGA-mcm] Re: [AGA-Member] From the Membership Desk
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- Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] Re: [AGA-Member] From the Membership Desk
- From: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 07:58:45 -0800 (PST)
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That I understand. Thanks.
sh
--- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> - Erik
>
> --
> Erik Olson
> erik at thekrib dot com
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