I'm not sure I'm *happy* with my system, but here's what we do - I send out
renewal notices every other month. New members and renewed members alike
receive a new membership card every year. By the time I send out thank yous,
I generally have enough to fill a full card of the business cards.

I would prefer to send the cards out more frequently, but we only have one
employee (me) right now, and there's a lot of other things to do.

Hope this helps,
Erica

Erica S. Maniez
Museum Director, Issaquah Historical Society
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> Good morning! I have a question about museum membership. We do not have a
> membership secretary, so membership duties are handled by our office
> manager. Because of this, our memberships go from January 1-December 31,
> with some exceptions case by case. Currently, she has to put business-card
> sized membership cards into her typewriter and individually fill each one
> out with the member's name, expiration date, and membership category. The
> membership cards are basically business cards with our logo and a
> few lines
> to write or type information on. As you can imagine, this is time
> consuming,
> frustrating, and impractical in many ways. We would very much like a
> different method of doing this. We looked into getting sheets of business
> cards that would be filled out on the computer, but if we get a new member
> in, say, June, filling out one card on the computer would mean wasting the
> other 9 cards on the sheet. Once one card is torn off, the sheet cannot be
> fed through the printer. I hope that I have explained this in an
> understandable fashion. If anybody has a membership system that they are
> happy with, I would greatly appreciate your input. Thank you!
>
>
> Alissa Acker
> Curator of Education
> Lake Superior Railroad Museum
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