<div dir="ltr">In my experience, food attracts college students. I use food to get better student evaluations.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Joshua A. Katz<div>Westbrook CT Planning Commission (L in R seat)</div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Scott L. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott73@earthlink.net" target="_blank">scott73@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black">As a general rule, high
school and college students are much more inclined to contribute their labor as
opposed to contributing money.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black">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.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black">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.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black"> Scott
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Lnc-business
[mailto:<a href="mailto:lnc-business-bounces@hq.lp.org" target="_blank">lnc-business-bounces@hq.lp.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On
Behalf Of </span></b>Alicia Mattson<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, December 05, 2014
3:52 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <u></u><a href="mailto:lnc-business@hq.lp.org" target="_blank">lnc-business@hq.lp.org</a><u></u><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Lnc-business]
student memberships for $10?</span></font><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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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.<br>
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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. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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?<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span></font>Alicia<font color="black"><span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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