Re: Convention $$

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

Just by impression and not by actual count, there seems to
be a pick up in memberships very recently -- maybe AGA2K3
related.  But if memberships are picking up whle mail-ins
are dropping off, that's suggestive that mail-in is
genuinely dwindling as a payment method.

AGA2K3 and seasonality, as Cheryl points out, need to be
accounted for to make this leap in judgement, but I believe
it follows other national marketing trends.

dots da dotcom way of progress.

sh



--- Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@wilstream.com> wrote:
> Erik Olson wrote:
> 
> > Maybe Cheryl or you have an idea of how many folks are
> still paying by 
> > mail... then we can get an idea of how many memberships
> actually come in 
> > per month (something I currently have no idea of!).
> > 
> >   - Erik
> 
> 
> At first we were getting quite a few each month, but over
> the summer 
> mail-in registrations have slowed quite a bit. Until May,
> I was sending 
> David checks every two weeks--now I am just sending them
> every month. I 
> haven't been doing this long enough to know whether it is
> seasonal, but 
> I suspect it is. I believe it will pick up this fall.
> 
> On the other hand, when I first stated this job in
> December 2002, I knew 
> that Jack had not had time to send out renewal notices
> for quite a 
> while. I sent lots of e-mails and postcards to folks
> who's memberships 
> had expired back several issues, as I recall. (Since we
> hadn't been 
> consistent with publishing TAG, it was hard for people to
> tell when to 
> hit the panic button. I still think some folks don't
> believe me when I 
> say they aren't going to get the next TAG! :-) )
> 
> Here is the breakdown of mail-in registrations by month,
> I hope:
> 
> Dec  15
> Jan  29
> Feb  16
> Mar  12
> Apr  12
> May  12
> Jun  11
> Jul  6
> Aug  3
> Sept 3
> 
> -- 
> Cheryl Rogers, Membership
> Aquatic Gardeners Association
> http://www.aquatic-gardeners.org
> AGA International Aquascaping Contest is now open for
> submissions. Deadline September 15, 2003.
> 
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