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Club Cafe Membership Drive

Hi Everyone,

Does anybody listen to NPR radio? If so, you’re familiar with membership drives. I’d like to have a Club Cafe membership drive. I’ve made a commitment to keep sharing information about doing your accounting or running your club on a regular basis and I’d like to make sure as many people as possible who might be interested in the information know how to get it.

I also think we all benefit when the more brave members of the list share their thoughts, questions and information about their club’s operations.

Our membership drive doesn’t involve ceaseless interruptions to programming and you can save your dollars to donate to NPR. Instead I’d like to offer you something. On the day when we have added 100 new members to the club cafe list, I’ll do a drawing for a free bivio subscription. The only people who will be eligible to win are those on the list.

As many people in your club as you’d like can join the list. Here’s the instructions on how to join:

How To Join the Club Cafe Email Discussion List

Any guesses on how fast we can reach this goal?

Laurie Frederiksen

www.bivio.com

Hi Laurie

We wish you sucess on your membership drive,

 but our members would never donate to NPR

a left wing outfit.

 


----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurie Frederiksen" <laurie@bivio.biz>
To: "The Club Cafe" <club_cafe@bivio.com>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 10:15:30 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: club_cafe: Club Cafe Membership Drive

Hi Everyone,

 

Does anybody listen to NPR radio?    If so,  you're familiar with membership drives.   I'd like to have a Club Cafe membership drive.    I've made a commitment to keep sharing information about doing your accounting or running your club on a regular basis and I'd like to make sure as many people as possible who might be interested in the information know how to get it.

 

I also think we all benefit when the more brave members of the list share their thoughts, questions and information about their club's operations.  

 

Our membership drive doesn't involve ceaseless interruptions to programming and you can save your dollars to donate to NPR.   Instead I'd like to offer you something.   On the day when we have added 100 new members to the club cafe list,  I'll do a drawing for a free bivio subscription.  The only people who will be eligible to win are those on the list.

 

As many people in your club as you'd like can join the list.  Here's the instructions on how to join:

 

How To Join the Club Cafe Email Discussion List

 

Any guesses on how fast we can reach this goal?

 

 Laurie Frederiksen

 www.bivio.com

 

Laurie, are you including 'existing members' in the drawing
for the free membership or do existing members have to
re-enroll to be eligible for the free membership?
If I understand your post correctly, the odds of winning the
free membership are 1 in a 100!

Bob Hooper
Tucson, AZ

Laurie Frederiksen wrote:
   On the day when we have added 100 new members to the
> club café list,  I&#8217;ll do a drawing for a free bivio subscription.  The
> only people who will be eligible to win are those on the list.

Hi Frank,


Don't worry, I support people making donations to whomever they'd like to. I'm

just interested in getting more Club Cafe members.

:)

This does give me an interesting thought though. I wonder whether "Red State" minded investment clubs invest in different companies than

"Blue State" minded ones.

Perhaps we should do a poll.

Laurie

Dear Bob,

Of course current members are included in the drawing! We support
our loyal club café fans, new and old. No need to re-register.

You still have pretty good odds. Especially if you get your whole club to sign up.

    Laurie
Laurie,

Incidentally, one of our clubs first discussions focused around what our limits were in terms of investing in companies that we saw as 'socially irresponsible'.

We decided that it would be a little nutty to only invest in clubs that had a socially responsible mission, however, we did unanimously agree that we would, under no circumstances, invest in companies that were socially or environmentally extremely irresponsible, no matter how good the return---our example being Chevron. We also agreed that we were interested in making green companies a portion of our portfolio.

I'm curious if other clubs have such guidelines.

Ellen
End Game Investments


Ellen Shershow Pena Photography
415.690.0278



On Apr 30, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Laurie Frederiksen wrote:

Hi Frank,

Don't worry,  I support people making donations to whomever they'd like to.  I'm
just interested in getting more Club Cafe members.
:)
 
This does give me an interesting thought though.  I wonder whether "Red State" minded investment clubs invest in different companies than
"Blue State" minded ones.
Perhaps we should do a poll.
Laurie

Our club in Southern California has no restrictions on companies we won't invest in.  Although, this situation has not come up after two years of being a club.  I do know of a few of our members who will not invest in "sin" companies such as tobacco, porn and alcohol and I believe that the rest of the club would not have a problem with not investing in those.  There are so many other companies to pick from why fight it.
 
John Rice


From: Ellen Shershow <thatgirl@ellenswebsite.com>
To: The Club Cafe <club_cafe@bivio.com>
Sent: Fri, April 30, 2010 1:12:30 PM
Subject: Re: club_cafe: Club Cafe Membership Drive

Laurie,

Incidentally, one of our clubs first discussions focused around what our limits were in terms of investing in companies that we saw as 'socially irresponsible'.

We decided that it would be a little nutty to only invest in clubs that had a socially responsible mission, however, we did unanimously agree that we would, under no circumstances, invest in companies that were socially or environmentally extremely irresponsible, no matter how good the return---our example being Chevron. We also agreed that we were interested in making green companies a portion of our portfolio.

I'm curious if other clubs have such guidelines.

Ellen
End Game Investments


Ellen Shershow Pena Photography
415.690.0278



On Apr 30, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Laurie Frederiksen wrote:

Hi Frank,

Don't worry,  I support people making donations to whomever they'd like to.  I'm
just interested in getting more Club Cafe members.
 
:)
 
This does give me an interesting thought though.  I wonder whether "Red State" minded investment clubs invest in different companies than
"Blue State" minded ones.
 
Perhaps we should do a poll.
 
Laurie