[Lnc-business] student memberships for $10?

[Joshua Katz]

In my experience, food attracts college students.  I use food to get better
student evaluations.

Joshua A. Katz
Westbrook CT Planning Commission (L in R seat)

On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Scott L. <scott73 at earthlink.net> wrote:

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