Cheryl, This sounds really innovative and AWESOME!!! Great to see some fire and passion. GO GIRL!!!! Kathy On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Cheryl Rogers wrote: > Okay, enough keeping you all in suspense. They aren't *that* special! We > all had a lot of great ideas and I had to stick with the ones that I > thought *I* could implement, this year sometime, without much trouble. > > Attached is the long version, with specific details, to read at your > leisure, but please do read it. > > Here is the short version: I am making separate five separate motions for > initiatives 2A&B - 5. Initiative #1 has already been implemented and was > trivial enough not to require a formal vote. > > 1. Starting April 1st, I will initiate a continuing series of timely > announcements to the AGA-member or ?announce list. The next announcement > will be 2A. > > 2. Encourage individuals to recruit new members. Emphasis will be on > encouraging members to help the AGA, but with perks. > > A. Membership Drive > From May 1st - August 31, 2004, for every new member who cites a current > member?s name and location in the ?more info? field of the online or > mail-in application, AGA will extend the current member?s membership by one > issue. > > B. Permanent Offer of Membership Incentive > If a current AGA member hosts an open house or a local club meeting, AGA > will send promotional materials and sample back issues as give-aways. If at > least four people sign up, the current member gets a free t-shirt. > > 3. Group Discounts > As immediately as possible, implement a provision for Group Discounts. This > is a simple group discount policy for anyone who wants more than 1 issue of > TAG sent to the same address. > > 4. Premium Club Program (or whatever?needs a snazzier name) > For a $200 annual fee, a Premium Club will receive the many great benefits. > > 5. Pet Store Incentives > This was David Lass?s idea: that for every four (this # was my idea) > members a store brings in, the store would get one free membership to give > to its employees or whatever. > > Many thanks to Neil and Phil, and for Scott's, Larry's, and Tim's input. > > Cheryl > ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, e-mail majordomo@thekrib.com with "unsubscribe aga-sc" in the body of the message. Old messages are available at http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-sc When asked, log in as username is "aga-sc", and password "incorp".