Re: [AGA-sc] [Fwd: AGA/sfbaaps cooperation]

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

Those are my concerns as well.  A club with enough interest in plants to
want to do this, probably already HAS quite a few AGA members on board.

Karen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathy Olson" <kathy@thekrib.com>
To: "Aquatic Gardeners Association Board" <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 12:49 AM
Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] [Fwd: AGA/sfbaaps cooperation]


>
>
> On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, S. Hieber wrote:
>
> > I don't disagree with any of your points generally. But I
> > have a couple of concerns. Frist, if we have some idea that
> > we will have more than just SFBAAPS, that we will get many
> > or at least several premies, then that is a diff situatiion
> > than if we only get one or two. It should be enough to page
> > for a sheet (4 pages). I say this only because we don't
> > know how much peripheral impact there will be. By
> > peripheral impact I mean, adding lots of membership and
> > involvement bringing in even more members by word of mouth.
>
>
> Scott,
>
> I look at the whole premier membership thing...and calculate that they are
> getting 10 memberships for $100, where normally the individuals would pay
> $200 for that.  So that is $100 off.  This is money that normal goes
> towards production of TAG.  So potentially we are losing $100 in revenue
> that would go to TAG production/AGA business.
>
> In addition to this, they would be taking up page space that could be used
> for advertisers, or cool articles (that keep people signed up), then they
> are also getting back issues, worth some unknown value, and then they are
> also getting a convention DVD, which has some production/material cost as
> well.
>
> Soooooo, I don't think the money from premier memberships would pay for
> extra pages, in a way the AGA will be loosing existing money that is used
> in the the production of TAG.
>
> Now I think the thought is hopefully we are getting people we wouldn't
> reach otherwise, and perhaps get new members.
>
> But seeing this, I am not so sure.
>
> I am Okay going along with it, but I really don't thing Premier
> memberships will bring in extra revenue for new pages in TAG, and I hope
> they don't create too much of a loss from the existing money coming into
> support tag.
>
> Kathy
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