Re: small update

["Karen Randall" <krandall@world.std.com>]

Hi Erik,

> Just wanted to let you guys know that the membership coordinator job is
> now officially transferred to Cheryl Rogers, and the database is now
> online co-hosted with the AGA site (on a separate password-protected URL).

Awesome!

> Good news:  We should no longer have problems where the complimentary
> copies are forgotten on the 2nd spreadsheet.  There is only ONE database
> now, and we can flag memberships as "Normal", "Business" and
> "Life/Complimentary".

More awesome

> So, the bad news: When I imported Jack's excel spreadsheet & converted it
> into the database, I went through the list in Alphabetical order
> (something which was not possible in its previous incarnation).  I caught
> an additional 30 duplicate names.  This brought our current circulation to
> 702.
>
> I also e-mailed Diana Walstad & asked if she has a full stock of the last
> 3 TAGs.  I am not sure if she's been mailed back issues in the last year,
> so I wanted to make sure.  We should be selling these recent ones, between
> the higher quality & the huge availability.

My understanding is that she only wanted 30 sent to her, and I believe that
is what Step Direct was told.  If she wants or needs more, I have several
boxes on my porch.<g>  I agree that we should be selling them, but I also
think we should be GIVING them away if that will bring in new members.  I
think we've got a great product now.  The organization has a lot to offer.
We need to figure out a way to get people interested.

I wonder whether we should offer a free "sample" issue on the web site.  We
can always put "while supplies last" so that if we find that we're sending
out too many without getting memberships in return we can just stop it.
But, of course, to do that, we'd need to ahve someone willing to take the
job on... one of our perpetual problems.

> The contest ribbons arrived yesterday, so I'm putting together packets to
> mail to everyone.  I substituted two foreign subscriptions for the two
> winners out of the USA (bringing our circulation to 704).  Will mail
> invoice to David for mailing costs & ribbons.

Thanks again for taking care of all of that!

Karen


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