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

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

I agree completely.

I think we should ONLY be considering raising dues if dues PLUS advertising 
doesn't cover TAG.  Otherwise, we are "stealing" editorial pages from the 
membes to use for advertisements to fund...?

Karen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cheryl Rogers" <cheryl@wilstream.com>
To: "Aquatic Gardeners Association Board" <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] Foreign vs US Memberships -- 2nd Draft


> waitaminutewaitaminutewaitaminute. The reason we started accepting
> advertising was so that we could produce TAG in color without raising
> membership dues. Now we have discovered that the membership dues
> *almost* covers TAG production, without considering the advertising?
>
> I think TAG should be paying its own way, but that includes revenues
> from advertising also.
>
> Cheryl
>
>
>
> S. Hieber wrote:
>> 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
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