<div dir="ltr"><div><div>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.<br><br></div></div>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.<br><div><br>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.<br><br>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. <br><br></div><div>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?<br><br></div><div>-Alicia<br><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Joshua Katz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:planning4liberty@gmail.com" target="_blank">planning4liberty@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Well, I'm not sure what the take-away is. Most said that they'd join when they're making more money; they probably will. If $25/yr is out of range, would $10 be in range? It doesn't sound like most would do that - $15 spread over a year isn't really that much savings. What about giving college students free pledge newsletters, a bumper sticker, and, for $10, a t-shirt?<div><br></div><div>Like I said before, I don't know what difference membership actually makes to college students, unless we want college students on the board. Are many interested in running for LNC? Do many million dollar corporations have college students on their boards? I suspect not, to both. We already have free memberships. I certainly agree with offering something for students, I'm just not sure a reduced price non-bylaws sustaining membership is the best thing. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Joshua A. Katz<div>Westbrook CT Planning Commission (L in R seat)</div></div></div></div>
<br></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Wes Benedict <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wes.benedict@lp.org" target="_blank">wes.benedict@lp.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
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<div>Drawstring backpacks for sure.<br>
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Attached are comments from actual starving students who were asked
to join. By actual, I mean not actual.<br>
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Hopefully I deleted all their identifying info from this attached
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<div dir="ltr">How about the benefit being one of those drawstring
backpack things (in white, not blue!!)? I mean, what better
on-campus advertising could we ask for?</div>
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