You folks know the vendors much better, and have known them much longer, than I. You are better judges of what they might accept. But I like the basic idea, whatever the optimum numbers are. If RPH is ripe for participation and it looks successful, others might become ripe. I don't think that's necessarily a problem, I think that could be an opportunity growing. Membership is our hardest and fundamentally most critical issue. When I hear the Big O at the door (opportunity knocking), even if it's just a faint tap, I want to answer. sh --- Kathy Olson <kathy@thekrib.com> wrote: > yeah except 200 members for a free ad!!! > > k > > On Wed, 19 May 2004, Cheryl Rogers wrote: > > > S. Hieber wrote: > > > > > Okay, then I guess I'm proposing a new issue. [Like I > was > > > gonna stay on track for long anyway ;-) ] > > > > > > sh > > > > > > > I didn't mean to poo-poo your brainstorming. I was just > trying to separate > > what Robert is asking now for versus what we could > offer to businesses as > > incentives in the future. > > > > "If you give us 25 new members in a given calendar > year, we will give you a > > free one-page ad in TAG the following year. As a bonus > and good faith > > gesture, we will give you up-front 25 back issues and > 25 AGA flyers for > > distribution. PLUS you get a free AGA t-shirt for > yourself." > > > > Something like that? > > > > 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". > ===== - - - - - - - - She Wrote the book on low maintenance aquatic gardening! Diana Walstad, author of _Ecology of the Planted Aquarium_ Meet her at - The Fifth AGA Annual Convention Details & Registration at www.aquatic-gardeners.org & www.gwapa.org __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Domains ? Claim yours for only $14.70/year http://smallbusiness.promotions.yahoo.com/offer ------------------ 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".