[OSMF-membership] Membership sign up through SOTM US

[Alex Barth]

Frederik, Jonathan:

We just went live with the State of the Map US registration:
https://twitter.com/sotmus/status/560490935071834113

You'll see that there's no sign up option for OSM US nor OSMF on there.

We discussed over here in organization committee and decided to send out an
email to all attendees at a certain point specifically advertising to
become a member to OSM US. We'll offer alongside a 50 % discount on first
year of membership or similar (exact discount TBD).

Would you be interested in offering a similar discount in the same mailing?

Alex


On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Alex Barth <alex at openstreetmap.us> wrote:

> Frederik - this is roughly what I was thinking, yes.
>
> Another option would be to just hand out coupon codes that entitle
> recipients to a reduced membership fee. This would be purely promotional
> and we would share such coupon codes with everybody who signs up for the
> conference. Would that be interesting?
>
> Upsides:
>
> - you don't need to worry about this coupon code being shared in the wild
> - it's just a time limited promotion
> - you still drive sign ups
> - less friction - there is one decision point less: attendees don't need
> to decide whether they want to sign up for osmf at the point of signing up
> for conference, they get a coupon code either way at their free disposal
>
> I am still prepping a couple of options to discuss with my board
> colleagues.
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Alex,
>>
>> On 01/20/2015 11:30 PM, Alex Barth wrote:
>> > How is payment handled? Could there be a coupon code that people use for
>> > sign up to OSMF? We would issue this coupon code with conference tickets
>> > that opted into becoming members.
>> >
>> > Again, just exploring whether this could be an option.
>>
>> So the flow you'd be thinking about is something like this (correct me
>> if wrong):
>>
>> 1. We pre-generate a ton of coupon codes and send them to you
>>
>> 2. When someone signs up for SOTM-US you give them a chance of joining
>> OSMF for extra $$$
>>
>> 3. When they check that box, they get one of the coupon codes
>>
>> 4. but they will still have to go to the OSMF signup page (at a later
>> time) to register, and enter their coupon code to pay for their first year
>>
>> 5. after a couple months, when the validity period of the coupons is
>> over, OSMF invoices OSMF-US for n times £15 depending on how many
>> coupons were used
>>
>> I suspect this should be technically possible (Jonathan, can you say
>> something about that?), of course you'd have to somehow manage to hand
>> out the individual coupon codes in the course of the Eventbrite signup.
>>
>> We'd of course have to take this by the OSMF board and the new
>> membership group but regarding members I guess the more the merrier ;)
>>
>> Bye
>> Frederik
>>
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>>
>
>
>
> --
> Alex Barth
> Vice President
> OpenStreetMap United States Inc.
>



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Alex Barth
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OpenStreetMap United States Inc.
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