rambling on... Re: PayPal Stats

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Karen Randall wrote:

> And I don't want Kathy to fret over it, but one or two more ads would give
> us a LOT more breathing room. 

We talked about that today, because she's a little down what with Kurt
being gone from Ecosystem and them not having paid yet for their year of
ads..

Something I told her that you guys should know too:  The ACA/BB has seven
paid ads at the moment.  SEVEN.  The last issue of TAG had eight.  We are
doing better than the ACA, with its seasoned veterans who've been "in" the
industry.  That's pretty darn cool.  Yes, we'll probably be back down to
six shortly, but then again Kathy's also talking to All Glass again.

Another thing worth mentioning: Though our membership stats are hazy for
stuff older than a year ago, I do know that the roster back when we
assimilated PAM's subscriber list showed 600-650.  When I took the
database from Jack and prepared it for Cheryl, there were a ton of
mistakes, such that even though we mailed 862 people issue #1, we
immediately expired some 200+ members, many of whom should have been
expired last year.  I suspect that many of the 600 people as of January
2002 were probably also expired, and that our membership was more
accurately about 500.  So, I note that with everything all square, issue
#2 was mailed to 776 people, and issue #3 to 841.  Not bad, considering
that Karen's playing catch-up with the issues, putting them out every 2
months instead of every 3...less time for people to renew.  We have been
building the membership back up with Cheryl's dilligence.  I still think
there's a chance we could get it up to 1000 (including the 23 comps) by
the end of the year.

We should probably look at those comps, btw.  There are some that should 
probably be verified once a year.  Not saying we should pull them, but 
just verify that they still should get them.

Oh, and one last thing... Diana Walstad is coming to the convention. Most 
of you probably don't know that she was a little... shall I say... 
"negative" on the whole convention concept earlier this year, thinking it 
was a distraction from the "real" purposes of the AGA (though much like 
when Paul K talks like this, I don't really get what these "real" purposes 
are).  Imagine my surprise to see her registration come through PayPal 
this week.  She e-mailed and said she'd been turned around, was glad to 
see it coming together and bringing in money.

  - Erik

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Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com

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