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

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

It means all the money we spend that is not directly for a specific item. 
Pamphlets, are one example. They aren't a direct cost of Producing TAG but they 
are a cost of operation, the purpose of which is, in part, to produce TAG. We 
don't have a lot of revenues like that, but we have a lot of expenses like 
that. Office expenses are another. If anything, the number I calculated for 
overheads allocated to TAG is low, because a large portion of postage and 
delivery (an office expenses overhead) is for delivery of TAG outside or 
regular mailing (i.e., that we mail ourselves instead of through the commercial 
mailers).
 
Especially in a year when we did not produce a convention, the bulk of our 
expenditures were directly or indirectly connected to TAG, which financially is 
the Big Kahuna in our operations.
 
sh
 

----- Original Message ----
From: Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@wilstream.com>
To: Aquatic Gardeners Association Board <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 8:43:08 AM
Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] Foreign vs US Memberships -- 2nd Draft


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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