[Lnc-business] student memberships for $10?

[Scott L.]

As a general rule, high school and college students are much more inclined
to contribute their labor as opposed to contributing money.

 

If you provide them with free food, and perhaps some free alcohol if they
are over 21, then you can get a pretty decent amount of volunteer work out
of them.

 

All you need to do is to make the events FUN for them.  The people who are
best at making events fun for students are extroverted Libertarians under
the age of 28 who still remember how to party.

 

 

   Scott Lieberman

 

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From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of
Alicia Mattson
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 3:52 PM
To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org
Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] student memberships for $10?

 

Joshua beat me to one of my points, that college students can already join
the LP for FREE.  They become a member.  They get added to our database, and
we have their contact info.

Many of us have at one time been poor college students.  We know what it was
like.  But I have to disagree with the notion that $25 might as well be
$5,000 to a college student.  If they have a car, they probably buy gas at
$3-$4 a gallon.  If they take girls out on dinner-and-a-movie dates, they
spend more than $25 on that.  Etc.


The responses from the college students said they didn't want to part with
ANY money, not that they could part with $10 but not $25.  One of the
comments in that file was from someone who has finished college, has a wife,
and is paying off student loans, but still wouldn't part with $25, and they
wouldn't be eligible for the proposed student membership.

Lots of times the lack of money is a convenient excuse to give when they
feel a need to say something but don't really want to explain the real
reason.  

If you want do so some sort of student promotion, there is an easier way
than creating a new membership category and the necessary CRM changes that
go with it.  Just have a promotional deal.  If you become a party member and
send us a copy of your current student ID card, we'll send you a coupon to
get a $10 shirt, or a $10 backpack, or whatever.  I wouldn't want to give
promo items that cost us more than the $10 to purchase and ship), so that
we'd be losing money for every student that joins, but if our costs are
covered, wouldn't that accomplish what you're looking to do?

   Alicia

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