Hmmm, that's all true.
Maybe it means that we need to run more events now in
the central valey to get attendance back under control?
Jerry Mouton "Laissez les bons temps rouler!"
----- Original Message -----
From: "John F. Kelly Jr." <76067.1750@compuserve.com>
To: <Larrybsp@aol.com>; "Richard Urschel" <osp13@mybluelight.com>
Cc: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: What's drawing new members?
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> Message text written by "Richard Urschel"
>
> "
> Growth in new members is due to the location
> of the sites being used, and was limited
> by requiring membership."
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>
> I'm so glad you noticed. When we had most of our events in the Central
> Valley, several things happpened.
> 1) We were losing money despite the cheap rent.
> 2) Attendance was dropping off, hence the creation of the Rookie
> (now Novice) classes as a means of bringing in return business, thus not
> requiriung a hefty price increase.
> 3) We did increase the entry fee because we were losing money.
> 4) We made so much money for our non-profit that first year we
> bought the motorhome.
> 5) By bringing events into the Bay Area our non-member attendance
> ZOOMED, making events difficult to administrate.
> 6) Thus we made membership mandatory and made people plan ahead.
> Thus we limited events to people who REALLY wanted to be there, i.e. the
> instant gratification joy rider wouldn't pay the price in time. (For joy
> riders, money is, apparently, not a problem.)
>
> I just hope we can keep as many events as possible in the Bay Area as the
> situation benefits the program in a lot of different ways.
>
> --John Kelly
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