On Jul 23, 2007, at 14:18, bevw wrote:
If you have renewal times that happen 4 periods of a year, the
membership
database can be set to do a reminder message the period before the
respective renewal for those with e-mail. Or - you could swing the
whole
entreprise to one renewal time only, a temporary headache, but in the
long
run easier to administer I should think
<VBG> Once-a-year, always-same-date renewal is what IOLI *used to*
have; they switched to the 4-times-a-year ("magazine" rather than
"guild-membership" style) only a year or so ago. With the
guild-membership type of subscription, if you happen to join the
organization close to the end of its subscription year, you get 4
issues, of which 3 are way out of date and may not be of interest. And,
to rub the salt into the wounds... as soon as you get your first
*current* issue, you also get a renewal slip for the new year. At which
point, you may be so disenchanted with the scam, you toss the renewal
form into the nearest trash can (or into your paper-recycle bag).
Most of the IOLI "old timers" still have their renewal date at the same
time as they've always had it -- June/August. But the "new arrivals"
vary; their subscription starts with the nearest *current* issue.
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