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Jen Alexander posted a reply on Re: Membership Structure Tips and Tricks
Wednesday, Dec 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Said: Hi Jackie,Just sharing some data from our experience with membership. For our first 20 years, we tried different mixes of membership to ticket price ratios....for many years, it seemed like pricing it at about 12 to 14 tic...
Liz Knowland posted a reply on Re: Membership Structure Tips and Tricks
Wednesday, Dec 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Said: As Sarah says, it could be an issue of your memberships (and experience!) being a really great deal! We generally aim for memberships to pay for themselves in about three visits. We have a few power users who come once a week, but many ...
Liz Knowland posted a reply on Re: Short Term & Monthly Memberships
Wednesday, Dec 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Said: We've also been talking about setting up a monthly membership option (after figuring out all the workarounds needed in altru that others have mentioned). We haven't quite gotten them going yet, so I'm curious whether folks who have thes...
Amanda Lotts posted a new Topic
Wednesday, Dec 3, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Fieldtrip and Outreach Attendance Trends
Good Morning,
I hope everyone is doing well. I'm looking for information on Fieldtrip and Outreach Trends. We've noticed fewer school field trips to our museum this year and wanted to check whether anyone else may be experiencing the same.
We are currently in the middle of a construction project, which may be influencing attendance, but we're curious whether this reflects a broader trend. Have you observed similar changes in school visits or outreach participation, ...
I hope everyone is doing well. I'm looking for information on Fieldtrip and Outreach Trends. We've noticed fewer school field trips to our museum this year and wanted to check whether anyone else may be experiencing the same.
We are currently in the middle of a construction project, which may be influencing attendance, but we're curious whether this reflects a broader trend. Have you observed similar changes in school visits or outreach participation, ...
Sarah Scates posted a reply on Re: Membership Structure Tips and Tricks
Tuesday, Dec 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Said: Hi Jackie,
It sounds like your memberships are underpriced!
In the Zoo world, there's some consultants who did studies to establish that the optimal ratio of membership prices to single day ticket prices, which I happen to have written on ...
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