[Lnc-business] Jul Membership Report

Fri Aug 11 11:16:54 EDT 2017

Patrick, I share your concern regarding our dues-paying membership 
decline and think a survey would be worthwhile.

I have done some surveys in the past by snail mail, but it's been a 
while. I think it's time to do another set.

See attached survey mailings.

See some survey results on page 7 of LP News: 
http://www.lp.org/wp-content/uploads/2011-4_LP_News.pdf

I found the two responses regarding the Tea Party questions to be 
especially illustrative.

I will plan to do another survey this Fall.

I'll also be asking for a budget increase at this LNC meeting to pay for 
prospecting for new donors/members to lists that have routinely been our 
best performers.

Wes Benedict, Executive Director
Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
1444 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314
(202) 333-0008 ext. 232, wes.benedict at lp.org
facebook.com/libertarians @LPNational
Join the Libertarian Party at: http://lp.org/membership

On 8/11/2017 8:20 AM, Patrick McKnight wrote:
> All,
>
> I don't understand why our declining membership isn't our number one 
> priority as an organization. These reports come out showing we have a 
> real problem and no one seems to notice. Too often the LNC is too busy 
> having pointless philosophical debates amongst ourselves while people 
> are voting with their feet and leaving the party.
>
> I would like us to do an email survey of our membership to determine 
> what people like and don't like about the party. I don't accept this 
> culture of failure that since our numbers went up last year they have 
> to go down this year.
>
> I don't pretend to have all the answers to this problem. But I think a 
> good place to start is simply asking our membership. It would be free 
> and we might learn something.
>
> Interest in liberty is exploding, if our numbers don't reflect that we 
> are doing something wrong.
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick McKnight
> LNC Region 8 Rep
> Chair, New Jersey Libertarian Party
>
> On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Robert Kraus <robert.kraus at lp.org 
> <mailto:robert.kraus at lp.org>> wrote:
>
>     Attached thank you for pointing that out!
>
>     Live Free!
>
>     /*/Robert/*/*/
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>     *From:*Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org
>     <mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org>] *On Behalf Of *Aaron Starr
>     *Sent:* Thursday, August 03, 2017 4:32 PM
>     *To:* lnc-business at hq.lp.org <mailto:lnc-business at hq.lp.org>;
>     lnc-business at lp.org <mailto:lnc-business at lp.org>; 'LP-State
>     Chairs'; staff at lp.org <mailto:staff at lp.org>
>     *Subject:* Re: [Lnc-business] Jul Membership Report
>
>     Robert,
>
>     For some reason the report compares July 2017 with June 2016, so
>     the prior year data point did not get updated from last month’s
>     report.
>
>     Can you revise this report to compare July 2017 with July 2016?
>
>     Aaron Starr
>
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>     *From:*Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org
>     <mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org>] *On Behalf Of *Robert Kraus
>     *Sent:* Thursday, August 03, 2017 9:32 AM
>     *To:* lnc-business at lp.org <mailto:lnc-business at lp.org>; 'LP-State
>     Chairs'; staff at lp.org <mailto:staff at lp.org>
>     *Subject:* [Lnc-business] Jul Membership Report
>
>     Jul Membership Report is attached. Open to find out who is no
>     longer tied for 10^th !
>
>     Live Free!
>
>     /*/Robert/*/*/
>
>     /*Robert S. Kraus - Dir of Operations
>     Operations at LP.org <mailto:Operations at LP.org>
>     Libertarian National Committee, Inc.
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