Re: [AGA-sc] Foreign vs US Memberships -- 2nd Draft

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

Note the I haven't forgotten to take allocated revenues into consideration, 
it's just that the amount for TAG is inconsequential.


----- Original Message ----
From: S. Hieber <shieber@yahoo.com>
To: Aquatic Gardeners Association Board <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 2:50:38 PM
Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] Foreign vs US Memberships -- 2nd Draft


Now that I had a chance to look up in my archive of money files at home, I've 
determined that my original off-the-cuff estimate of the overheads was very 
low. The actual overheads for the last full year, on an allocated basis, are 
much higher, over $3 per one year TAG membership, or about $0.80 per issue 
based on 2005.

So I revised the spreadsheet, cleaned up a few things, and added a couple 
columns to show the impact of the allcoated overheads and the 1-year pricing, 
actual and recommended.

So, I'd recomend dropping about $5 per year off of the Foreign membership and 
adding $3 to the local. That doesn't quite balance things but it's much closer.

sh


S. Hieber wrote:
> Try the attached done in Excel version 5
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> I don't have a special problem with th$800 number. I think its a soft number 
> and I don't have any means tofirm it up so I addressed it only to say I 
> wasn't addressing it. How that for Friday morning tap dance ?  ;-)
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>  
> My feeling is that an item should pay its way, especially if it is the 
> mainstay heart and core product of the business. I'd rather we could just 
> lower prices all around. But I think the same fairness that says, lower the 
> foreign prices, says to raise the locals up to carrying their own weight. 
> We'v e been living high off the foreign members and the locals have been 
> sucking up some of that largesse. Time to button up the blouse, so to speak.
>  
> I share your reluctance but I must follow where my propeller takes me, it 
> being atached an all.
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> sh
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@wilstream.com>
> To: Aquatic Gardeners Association Board <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 12:33:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] Foreign vs US Memberships
> 
> 
> S. Hieber wrote:
>> This is only a 1st draft and maybe I flubbed a cell reference 
> 
> I have an ancient version of Excel. Can you e-mail me one saved as an 
> older version or as a csv or something?
> 
>> I'm not sure how the $800 per year number was derived 
> 
> Ummmm... guessing. Assumming that all the foreigners were on one-year 
> memberships and calculating the difference and rounding up.
> 
>> It's been a few years since we increased, hasn't it?
>>  
> 
> Since I started as membership chair in, say, January of 2003.
> 
> I really *don't want* to increase the US membership prices. I'm not 
> adamantly against it, just reluctant.
> 
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