[DeTomaso] Electronic Delivery of newsletters / Profiles
Dick Koch
arkoch at earthlink.net
Fri Nov 6 18:04:15 EST 2015
There is a pretty easy solution to satisfy the "hard" nosed crowd and
the rest of the folks that would be amenable to modernizing the POCA
publication delivery system.
Those members that don't have the time, talent, or incentive to print
out an electronic copy, those members pay the going rate of $75 a year
for a membership and would get hard copy as usual.
Those that would like to see something as I have outlined set up, their
dues goes to $50 a year (or whatever the number works out to be). The
"hard" nosed crowd still get "serviced" the same as now and pay what
they have been used to paying, and the majority of the remaining members
pay the lower dues.
With the reduced price and delivering a better value add to members
(more news/more often/more easily accessed), the club will be in a
position to attract more members, ergo more revenue for the club.
The club needs to embrace new ways of reaching the limited number of
Panteras that are left world wide (4,000 or so)?, and generate continued
interest in the marque to keep it alive and flourishing.
While I don't intend to conduct a pole of all my Pantera brethren
friends, I would bet you a dollar to a donut that the majority of those
Pantera owners (most not a member of POCA for the same reason I had not
been for a couple decades) would take advantage of the lower of the two
tier setup, as mentioned by Scott and others. Some of the money saved
in hard copy and mailing the publications, would be available to set up
the library and distribution system.
See... Easy peasy..... Pretty straight forward
Talking about hard copy, since I bought my Pantera 40 years ago
(12/15/1974), I have accumulated enough Pantera pubs and documentation
to fill the shelves and cabinets that take up half of my office wall. I
still have Hall's 1975 catalog (and many other vendors over the years) I
picked up at his shop when I spent a month in 1975 with Lance Nist and
Roy Butfoy turbo charging and upgrading my ZF.
Yes, I like hard copy to, but there comes a point that making the
information in those publications and documentation more readily
accessible makes sense, if nothing but for posterity and the ongoing
building of a library accessible to future owners of the Pantera that
will help keep the marque around and center stage for a long time to come..
Dick Koch - Atlanta
On 11/6/2015 4:52 PM, Scott Martin wrote:
> I am willing to pay extra for a paper newsletter. Would it be too hard
> administratively to offer a two price membership, one cost for
> electronic newsletter and a higher price for paper?
>
> Scott Martin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Kelm <dakelm at qwest.net>
> To: 'Stephen' <steve at snclocks.com>; 'DeTomaso Mail List'
> <DeTomaso at poca.com>
> Sent: Fri, Nov 6, 2015 4:47 pm
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Electronic Delivery of newsletters / Profiles
> No hard copies of publications = no membership for me! I'm not a luddite by
> any
> means, but the day the magazine industry goes completely paperless is
> the day
> the world (as I know and like it) ends!
>
> Doug (25 mag subscriptions, and
> counting) Kelm
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DeTomaso
> [[1]mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Stephen
> Sent: Friday, November
> 06, 2015 3:16 PM
> To: 'DeTomaso Mail List'
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Electronic
> Delivery of newsletters / Profiles
>
> Dick - heck fire - some of like to receive
> the mag - just because we like to
> sit down and read it. Whilst it likely
> doesn't make sense to you, well, it
> does to some of us.
>
> Stephen
> Nelson
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DeTomaso
> [[2]mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Dick Koch
> Sent: Friday,
> November 06, 2015 1:11 PM
> To: DeTomaso Mail List <[3]DeTomaso at poca.com>
> Subject:
> [DeTomaso] Electronic Delivery of newsletters / Profiles
>
> Judy, I really don't
> understand the problem with providing the newsletters
> electronically.
>
> POCA
> doesn't need to send anything to anybody. The publication should be
> made
> available on the POCA website, with member only access if limited
> access is
> desired. If a member wanted to have a printed copy, then they
> could do so. If
> a member didn't have access to the internet (I find it hard
> to believe that
> anyone that has a Pantera or an interest in one and is a
> member doesn't have
> access to the internet) and wanted a hard copy then they
> would have to pay for
> that delivery service. Most all organizations, for
> profit or otherwise, are
> going this route, both to reduce cost and provide
> more timely service to its
> customers.
>
> An archive of all the Newsletters could be maintained, with an
> index by year
> and topic, with free access granted to those that were members at
> the time
> of the newsletters, Plus for new members that wanted to have access to
> old
> newsletters and certain topics, POCA could charge a fee for that
> access.
>
> POCA reduces substantially the cost to mail the newsletters, provides
> an
> additional asset to produce income, drives members to the POCA
> website,
> provides a way to reduce the membership fees, and generates a great
> sales
> incentive for members to sign up.
>
> Dick Koch -
> Atlanta
>
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There is a pretty easy solution to satisfy the "hard" nosed crowd and
the rest of the folks that would be amenable to modernizing the POCA
publication delivery system.
Those members that don't have the time, talent, or incentive to print
out an electronic copy, those members pay the going rate of $75 a year
for a membership and would get hard copy as usual.
Those that would like to see something as I have outlined set up, their
dues goes to $50 a year (or whatever the number works out to be). The
"hard" nosed crowd still get "serviced" the same as now and pay what
they have been used to paying, and the majority of the remaining
members pay the lower dues.
With the reduced price and delivering a better value add to members
(more news/more often/more easily accessed), the club will be in a
position to attract more members, ergo more revenue for the club.
The club needs to embrace new ways of reaching the limited number of
Panteras that are left world wide (4,000 or so)?, and generate
continued interest in the marque to keep it alive and flourishing.
While I don't intend to conduct a pole of all my Pantera brethren
friends, I would bet you a dollar to a donut that the majority of those
Pantera owners (most not a member of POCA for the same reason I had not
been for a couple decades) would take advantage of the lower of the two
tier setup, as mentioned by Scott and others. Some of the money saved
in hard copy and mailing the publications, would be available to set up
the library and distribution system.
See... Easy peasy..... Pretty straight forward
Talking about hard copy, since I bought my Pantera 40 years ago
(12/15/1974), I have accumulated enough Pantera pubs and documentation
to fill the shelves and cabinets that take up half of my office wall.
I still have Hall's 1975 catalog (and many other vendors over the
years) I picked up at his shop when I spent a month in 1975 with Lance
Nist and Roy Butfoy turbo charging and upgrading my ZF.
Yes, I like hard copy to, but there comes a point that making the
information in those publications and documentation more readily
accessible makes sense, if nothing but for posterity and the ongoing
building of a library accessible to future owners of the Pantera that
will help keep the marque around and center stage for a long time to
come..
Dick Koch - Atlanta
On 11/6/2015 4:52 PM, Scott Martin wrote:
I am willing to pay extra for a paper newsletter. Would it be too hard
administratively to offer a two price membership, one cost for
electronic newsletter and a higher price for paper?
Scott Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Kelm [1]<dakelm at qwest.net>
To: 'Stephen' [2]<steve at snclocks.com>; 'DeTomaso Mail List'
[3]<DeTomaso at poca.com>
Sent: Fri, Nov 6, 2015 4:47 pm
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Electronic Delivery of newsletters / Profiles
No hard copies of publications = no membership for me! I'm not a luddite by
any
means, but the day the magazine industry goes completely paperless is
the day
the world (as I know and like it) ends!
Doug (25 mag subscriptions, and
counting) Kelm
-----Original Message-----
From: DeTomaso
[[1][4]mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Stephen
Sent: Friday, November
06, 2015 3:16 PM
To: 'DeTomaso Mail List'
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Electronic
Delivery of newsletters / Profiles
Dick - heck fire - some of like to receive
the mag - just because we like to
sit down and read it. Whilst it likely
doesn't make sense to you, well, it
does to some of us.
Stephen
Nelson
-----Original Message-----
From: DeTomaso
[[2][5]mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Dick Koch
Sent: Friday,
November 06, 2015 1:11 PM
To: DeTomaso Mail List [6]<[3]DeTomaso at poca.com>
Subject:
[DeTomaso] Electronic Delivery of newsletters / Profiles
Judy, I really don't
understand the problem with providing the newsletters
electronically.
POCA
doesn't need to send anything to anybody. The publication should be
made
available on the POCA website, with member only access if limited
access is
desired. If a member wanted to have a printed copy, then they
could do so. If
a member didn't have access to the internet (I find it hard
to believe that
anyone that has a Pantera or an interest in one and is a
member doesn't have
access to the internet) and wanted a hard copy then they
would have to pay for
that delivery service. Most all organizations, for
profit or otherwise, are
going this route, both to reduce cost and provide
more timely service to its
customers.
An archive of all the Newsletters could be maintained, with an
index by year
and topic, with free access granted to those that were members at
the time
of the newsletters, Plus for new members that wanted to have access to
old
newsletters and certain topics, POCA could charge a fee for that
access.
POCA reduces substantially the cost to mail the newsletters, provides
an
additional asset to produce income, drives members to the POCA
website,
provides a way to reduce the membership fees, and generates a great
sales
incentive for members to sign up.
Dick Koch -
Atlanta
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