OK, it's loud noise, but add pub sales and ad rev. still exceed membership dues by about a million. So, in order to keep revenue viable, if membership goes down, in order to make up the difference, more push for ad and pub. revenue. Begging in other arenas is also a viable alternative but I think they tapped most of them. So, if you kill your membership, you're forcing them to extract revenue from these other sources. Of course, either way, they can draw some monies for certain projects from the contributions and support bucket. The over all point is that stopping your membership doesn't solve some of the issues that have been discussed here recently and in the past with ARRL/QST etc. Of course, just adding 8 more pages to QST each month (that's the increment) for ads, if the push was there, could add a nice monetary perk each month. You could also kill a column or two and not add any additional pages. It will be interesting to read the 2007 Annual Report which should be available for read on the ARRL web site in June.
Pete, wa2cwa http://www.manualman.com On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:40:12 -0500 Robert Nickels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter Markavage wrote: > > Membership dues helps, but it's noise in comparison to the other > revenue generators. > > > Sorry Pete, but that's simply not correct. Membership dues are the > > largest single source of ARRL income. From the 2007 Annual Report > (the > most recent one that is available for the Year Ended December 31, > 2006): > > Revenues and Contributions: > > Membership dues $5,016,089 > Net publication sales $3,435,316 > Advertising revenue $2,541,503 > Investment income (restricted and unrestricted) $415.288 > Examination fees and other $328,694 > Program and service fees $418,503 > Government grant awards $122,397 > Contributions and support (restricted and unrestricted) $1,368,399 > > I went back to the earliest report on the website, for FY 1995, and > in > that year Dues brought in $4.4M, Publications $4.3M and Ads $3.1M, > so > the shift toward dues as a larger share of ARRL income has been the > case > at least the past 12 years. > > 73, Bob W9RAN > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net > AMRadio mailing list > Searchable Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > > ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
