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

[Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@wilstream.com>]

What does overheads mean?

c

S. Hieber wrote:
> 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
>>  
>>  
>> 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 ?  ;-)
>>  
>>  
>> 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.
>>  
>> sh
>>  
>>  
>>  
>>
>>  
>> ----- 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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