IPs and $$$ (revenue generation)

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 00:19:03 -0400
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From: Mark Rushton <Mark@chebucto.ns.ca>
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Greetings, all.

With the newly revised IP rate card, NSCUBA is now far more likely to go
ahead with a VDN.

To that end, I contacted the other members of our board to put the $$$ and
details on their plate, also querying whether we are up-to-date on our
yearly "dues" as an IP to Chebucto.

Our treasurer replied that since the organization hadn't recieved (by
physical mail) an "invoice", no cheques had been sent out to Chebucto to
fulfil our "moral" committment to CCN for web-hosting services.

Now, as the editor for NSCUBA's site, I should be more active in staying on
top of this.  But.... I don't recall receiving an email notification that
"hey, it's another year you've been with us, and we'd appreciate a bit
o'dough!".

An email I could forward to the treasurer to be dealt with.  A physical
"invoice" / reminder sent to the organization's postal address (which I
believe _is_ part of the IP record) is far more likely to be acted upon and
also serve as a reminder to the organization that it has a relationship
with Chebucto.

So - do we have the office procedural capacity / human resource capacity to
perform this sort of outreach?

Is it desireable?  Feasible?

Any of you marketing types have an inkling whether the costs (staff,
paper/envelopes/postage) would be sufficiently addressed by potential
responses (incoming cheques)?

Is there an easy way to generate from the IPDB a list of who's paid, when,
who's overdue, etc. (and not with any judgement placed on those IPs who
have not / cannot pay, since we do offer "free" access if required)?

...Just generating some work for y'all as I'm about to head for the cottage
for the weekend.... ;-)

ciao for now,
Mark

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Mark Rushton, Editor, Community Support & Development, Chebucto Community
Network
Mark@chebucto.ns.ca     or via WWW:  http://chebucto.ns.ca/~Mark/index.html
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