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Well said Shahruln. Tak tahu apa problem mereka.
syahruln;285253 said:Jipster,
The club isn't just the forum. The forum itself is self-sustainable due to the traffic, but the club is not. We paid the membership fee to support the club, not the forum. This forum is just postings - a way of communication. The club involves much more interesting activities than just chit-chat or TT. Of course, now we all can see the club management isn't working the way we all want it. But, without supporting it (e.g. become official member), involving in its management (e.g. attending the AGM, voting for suitable ppl to be it's committee, planning for its future, etc), the club will not be successful.
Some people like to wait for things to get better before they join. Some people like to make things better by participating. Some ppl think the forum participation is enough for them, so they just stay forumers. Some ppl wanted more action in real life - teamwork, friendship, challenges, etc, hence they become part of the club.
E46Fanatic;285333 said:the real problem is spending all that $$$, as everyone is busy with their own things and there is not enough activities being organized to spend all that moolah heh.
E46Fanatic;285877 said:Guys, if you have to spend so much effort to coax Black IDs to become Blue IDs, by paying subscription fees, its really going against the grain and like I said not sustainable. Learn from great web 2.0 successes out there, and what other successful communities such as E90post, M3post, bimmer forums, etc has. They never went against the grain, and structured their services to make it a condusive environment to florush. Somehow, sites like E90post is so good that it attracts lots and lots of paying...... sponsors who post regularly, have deals etc which in turn benefits the club and its members. Community leaders built their value/funds from other means and their achievements are to be admired.
If you have come up with the secret formula, which makes the majority of your online user base queue up to subscribe and continue to subscribe annually, you have something which many others will admire and try to follow heh. The fault is really the culture of the Internet. We really spend a lot of time online but not actual $$$ to pay for services provided to us online. Its just so and you have to be rather stubborn not to accept this.
Getting sponsorship for a community like BMW owners to have enough to run the club online/offline is certainly achievable. A tiered membership of a minority paying official members vs. majority non-paying members who are likely to be your most valuable asset, creates more harm than good. Its unlikely that non members want to get involved in "official events", which actually is to your disadvantage. It should be equal treatment for all members, to harness the strength of the resources you have. Successful communities is rarely about lack of $$$ but the lack of member's time to help organize things and keep things running.
It doesn't make sense to collect funds from members to give them back benefit which are derived 100% from their own money anyways.
A working example - the community I am involved in gets tens of thousands in cold cash sponsorship annually (not much but certainly enough) as well as sponsorship in kind (freebies). This does not include advertisement sponsorship as well. In addition the regional affliation which I am also a committee of gets 6 figure USD sponsorship annually meant to help community groups across APAC. The biggest problem is spending all that money.. and lack of members time and effort to help us spend it all. All members do not fork out a single cent and enjoy the benefits of sponsorship created by the committee. Better than paying the committee a sum to only get it back (maybe not even 100% benefit) in return as how the committee structures the benefit right?
XXX;285867 said:Lee
....coming back to the car detailing clinic, it was very good of you to organise it using the clubs resources, the club let it through bcos it benefited the members as well and we didnt have to organise it,...if the club would have stopped you from organising it do you think it would have come to past?...the club let you use its forum to organise it so I think the club should also get some credit for letting it come to past....so at the end of the day it was not free, it was at the expense of the club.
planta;285918 said:Therefore, I would like to sponsor rm300 for E46 fanatics to join BMWCM and I want to nominate him to be the BMWCM president this year so that hopefully by next year and the year after, I do not have to pay rm150 to renew my membership coz it will be free.
I am not trying to ridicule him or those other guys who are providing all the long advice, point of views, biz savviness. If we can make it free, why not? Se let's be practical.
Who wants to join my crusade and sponsor others like Astroboy and Lee and nominate them to be committee. We need these guys to make this club a great club. They say we can make it free, so let's make it free. It would be really nice by the end of this year, we would all be able to do TT's, convoys, charity and dinners... for free. Not just any club, BMW club and it is free.
planta