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

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

Thanks Scott, I saw your post after I had responded to hers.  You'd think 
I'd LEARN not to respond to AGA posts until reading ALL the messages since 
the last time I tuned in, wouldn't you?<g>

Ah well, back to turn wings on the barby

Karen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>
To: "Aquatic Gardeners Association Board" <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] Foreign vs US Memberships -- 2nd Draft


>
>
> Yes, including ad revs shouldn't even be an issue and I apologize for my 
> mistake to not include them in the analysis originally. It was a very good 
> thing that Cheryl caught the error and pointed it out.
>
> It's worth noting, I think, that local TAG memberships are not breaking 
> even without the ad revs, local TAG memberships are just a little better 
> than breaking when factoring in the ad revs. Close to break even is how I 
> think it should be, which is why I altered my positon after seeing 
> Cheryl's post. And this reminds us how crucial ad revs our to the vitality 
> of TAG. Tag is a going concern because of the subsidy from ad revs and 
> foreign memberships. I'm very uncomfortable with that situation and again, 
> I'm grateful to Cheryl for having raised the issue re foreign memberships 
> and fairness. It was insightful to have seen the inequity the rest of us 
> had missed.
>
> sh
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz>
> To: Aquatic Gardeners Association Board <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 6:10:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] Foreign vs US Memberships -- 2nd Draft
>
>
> 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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