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22-Dec-2005
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Join Date: Feb-2005
Location: Carlsbad, California..coastal desert
Country: United States
USDA Zone: 11
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Perhaps the economics of the area is a factor? Places with more affluent members will tend to have more raffle/auction donations, and places with less affluence will have a reluctance to support the club by giving from their own pockets.
Our club sort of expects the members to support by donating, at least at the annual sales and auction. You don't absolutely have to, but they seem fairly upfront about it. Which is fine, because the members receive much more in value from the club than the inexpensive ($25 per year?) dues. Joanie |
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22-Dec-2005
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what our Milwaukee club every year is hold a public workshop open to anybody. we get members from the Masters class to volunteer and teach. everyone gets to work on a tree, and the member to public ratio was about 1:2.5 so the learning experience is enhanced. the people who volunteer get what we call a "Buddy Buck" that gives them a discount on their meal at the December Holiday Party (they also get these "Buddy Bucks" for volunteering at other events like the Asian Moon Festival and State Fair). it gets people from the community to get interested, and it rewards the members who volunteer.
another thing we do is we tax the vendors 5% or so on anything they sell to help the club. at our first white elephant auction this year they charged 7% or something like that to help the club, the member who donated the item got the rest, and, it being the first auction, we surprisingly had at least 150 items to be auctioned off. i know Ron Fortmann is a member of your club as well as mine, maybe talk to him about what else, if anything, you could do.
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bonsaiTALK Master Chief
 
Join Date: Feb-2005
Location: Madison, WI
Country: USA
USDA Zone: 4-5
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If there were an auction at our club I would do the same, I bet other people would too. Our club charges $20 per year and it is , in my opinion, a very good deal. Quote:
-Paul
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bonsaiTALK Master Chief
Join Date: Feb-2005
Location: Madison, WI
Country: USA
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Still hardley any one(general public) knows of our club. -paul
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22-Dec-2005
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Bill, your area club sounds great. You are too modest to mention it, but your presence I am sure has much to do with its success and vitality. Almost makes me want to move back to snow country ('Zerocuse')...but not quite!
 
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22-Dec-2005
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BonsaiTalk Master B.S.er
Join Date: Jun-2002
Location: Richardson, Texas
Country: God Bless America
USDA Zone: 8
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Paul,
do you advertise your club meeting in the local news paper? Do you have flyers at local nurseries? I would think the laws of mathematics would work to some degree. Meaning more members would equal more money and more participation. I know our club advertises in the local paper.
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22-Dec-2005
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bonsaiTALK Master Chief
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I don't know how everyone else does auctions, but what our club does is twice a year (November and May) we have members bring in and register trees for the auction. Each person numbers their trees for the auction from with the letters from A-Z, and when the auction procedes all the A's go first, then B's, C's... This way everyone gets a fair chance.
And when the trees are sold, 20% of the sales go the club, paid by the seller. This way the person who put the tree up doesn't have that much to lose. This year we had a couple people bring in trees that were sold for $300+, that's $60 for each of those and three trees would bring in $200. And also, those that bring in a big tree and know they will make some money on that will then be more open to bid high because they know that if they sold a $300 tree day, even if they bid $200 on a tree, they will still leave with a good tree and a profit. This works great for my club, so you can get new material, the club benefits, and often members will leave only having to pay a little of money. If you win $200 Juniper and brought in ten smaller JBPs that sold for $20-25 each, then you basicially traded trees and the club got the commision. |
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