Re: rambling on... Re: PayPal Stats

["Karen Randall" <krandall@rdrcpa.biz>]

>  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.

I know she's been doing a terrific job, but it's a real feather in her cap
that she's got us more ads than ACA has!

>  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.

Well, that's not _quite_ accurate... It has been something like a week less
than 3 months for several issues, and this time we didn't manage to advance
the date at all.  My goal is to slowly work it back to going out by the end
of the first month in the cycle.  We've got it back to just about dead
center right now.  But I don't have any plans to move it back far enough
that we'd end up with more than 4 in a calendar year.

> 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.

That would be awesome.  I've been trying to think of an incentive we could
try to increase membership.  It would have to be something that was fun, but
not cost us much money, or it would just be shuffling funds around.

> 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.

I agree.  BAS comped an old member for several years, until her son finally
sent us a note telling us that she had passed away some time before.
Speaking of which, Cheryl, can you make sure Merrill gets taken off the
list.  His wife isn't a fish person, so I think it will be just one more
piece of "junk mail" to her.

> 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,

Earlier this year?  What about for since before the first convention?<g>

> 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).

I think they are still both thinking we should be funding "research"
projects.

> 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.

I strongly suspect that Christel being there was also a big factor.  ;-)

Karen


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