[Ansteorra] Participation vs. Recruitment

[HerrDetlef]

Can we raise the price of a sustaining membership to include a subscription
to *Tournaments Illuminated*?

Detlef

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Sir Lyonel <sirlyonel at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I agree, cozyn. The corporation has really hogtied us with the changes to
> what a subscribing membership gets you. We should have tanked the
> corporation years ago.
>
> About the only remaining argument in favor of memberships is the "support
> your local group" tack, but even I no longer accept that.
>
> Tant pis.
>
> En Lyonel
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 24, 2012, at 1:27 PM, HerrDetlef <herrdetlef at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Not so much analysis as raw data. Draw whatever conclusions you can.
> >
> > Participation is indeed based on memberships. The problem is that only
> > officers and weekend SCA'ers (who go to calendar events outside of their
> > local groups) benefit from subscribing memberships. Exactly how do we
> > encourage weekday SCA'ers who are not officers (who go almost exclusively
> > only to events within their local groups) to subscribe? We can't exactly
> > tack a non-member surcharge to weekday events, because the vast majority
> of
> > them do not involve a site fee.
> >
> > When I first subscribed as a member of the SCA, the sustaining membership
> > included a subscription to *Tournaments Illuminated*. That quarterly was
> > worth the price of membership itself. Without that subscription, a
> > sustaining membership is little more than a qualification to hold office
> > and a way to dodge a non-member surcharge. The information presented in a
> > kingdom newsletter like *Black Star* benefits weekend SCA'ers and
> officers
> > far more than it does weekday SCA'ers. There is not much incentive for a
> > weekday SCA'er to become a subscribing member.
> >
> > The price of a sustaining membership in the SCA--including the recent
> > increases--is still far lower than the price of membership in most
> > professional and academic organizations, but I doubt that many younger
> > newcomers to the SCA can appreciate that fact. If we are able to
> encourage
> > weekday SCA'ers to become subscribing members, local groups would be able
> > to maintain their required membership numbers, and the generated revenue
> > would allow increases in the price of membership to be lower than they
> have
> > been in the recent past.
> >
> > Again--how do we do that? Do we make subscribing memberships more
> > beneficial to weekday SCA'ers, or do we find some means other than
> > membership numbers alone to measure participation?
> >
> > I'm only asking questions. I really don't have any answers. I wish I did.
> >
> > Detlef
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Sir Lyonel <sirlyonel at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Salut cozyns,
> >>
> >
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