Again, depends on how deep you want to go. There are some legal needs to charge a membership fee. If you want to provide 'insurance' or other group benefits / services you need to charge a membership (sort of a way to provide proof that it's membership not wide open). Of course, could have two levels.
As well, if you make it "sponsorship" heavy, you could be chasing sponsorship and serving their interests instead of the membership. Of course, you don't intend that to happen, but it usually does. Regards, Chuck -----Original Message----- From: Jim Van Meggelen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November-23-07 12:22 PM To: biz@taug.ca Subject: RE: [biz] fundraising / business newsletter I would still want to keep the meetings and list membership free. In other words, there needs to be a way to be a part of this without being required to shell out any cash. If you want the t-shirt, bumper sticker or any promotional consideration, fine, but the basic membership needs to have as few barriers as possible. Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Keith Major | Aquarius Telecom Inc. > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: November 23, 2007 12:13 PM > To: biz@taug.ca > Subject: RE: [biz] fundraising / business newsletter > > I think developing TAUG into a professional association would > be a good idea with a small membership fee of $25-35/year. > This would help cover the cost of website bandwidth and > tables at conferences like IT360. Being a professional > association, we could leverage our member numbers and get > preferred rates with vendors such as, car insurance or movie > tickets just to name a few. Regarding branding or our group, > keep it the same as it is now. > It takes a long time to develop a brand and one that is easy > to say and unique is something we have going for us; TAUG. > Vendors such as Aastra know us and IT professionals who are > getting into VoIP know us about TAUG and let's not forget the > branding that comes from Asterisk alone. Asterisk is used in > multi-national companies and call centres deploying Cisco on > the frontend and Asterisk in the backend. > > For those who might think about, "What's in it for me?" We > could have a text based vendor directory were prospects can > view in brief what you offer and click a like to visit your > site for more details. I believe this to be a fair and > workable proposal. > > Keith > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.4/1147 - Release > Date: 23/11/2007 > 9:19 AM > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For > additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
