The 2017 Membership Thread

[Rolling Stone 157]

Is it true that St Kilda who were going neck and neck with us for memberships in recent years have passed 30k?

[daisycutter 29,606]

6 minutes ago, Rolling Stone said:

Is it true that St Kilda who were going neck and neck with us for memberships in recent years have passed 30k?

yes.........but see previous comments about their $1 membership

[beelzebub 23,313]

2 hours ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

Each club's slogan and part of respective membership campaign: http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-12-24/on-the-campaign-trail-every-clubs-membership-slogan-plus-more

Sad to say our Sign up and be counted was one of the least inspiring (for me); along with We are Gold Coast and Be more Bulldog. 

What about: Here come the Demons! or Show your heart beats red and blue or whatever!  Reckon we can find something more inspiring to stir potential members, than Sign up and be counted.

I reckon  North's is better than ours !!  

[Lucifers Hero 39,673]

14 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

I reckon  North's is better than ours !!  

Lazy reporting bb. A check of North's website (which I did before posting the article) would tell the reporter that North's is The Shinboner Spirit!

I reckon retiring Harvey et al has cost them big time in membership numbers, even with Tassie!

Edited December 24, 2016 by Lucifer's Hero

[boydie 655]

Somewhat off-topic, recently I was thinking are any "football" clubs listed on the stock exchange, and I found out that some of the usual big names in soccer world are on some markets around the world.

I don't know if it would work, but an idea none the less, as we have IG a sponsor these days and that the demographic of Melbourne supporters are involved in the stock market either as a profession or investor or both. But as another avenue of potentially raising funds, would there be enough benefits over negatives for the MFC to be a club on the market?

While Memberships are great, I still don't feel like I'm apart of the club whether thats the aim or not, it would be nice if you could be involved by "owning" a share. Any brokers/financial experts in here that could weigh in on the pros/cons, might just be a stupid crazy idea thats in my head.

Edited December 24, 2016 by boydie

[Dr. Gonzo 24,203]

3 hours ago, boydie said:

Somewhat off-topic, recently I was thinking are any "football" clubs listed on the stock exchange, and I found out that some of the usual big names in soccer world are on some markets around the world.

I don't know if it would work, but an idea none the less, as we have IG a sponsor these days and that the demographic of Melbourne supporters are involved in the stock market either as a profession or investor or both. But as another avenue of potentially raising funds, would there be enough benefits over negatives for the MFC to be a club on the market?

While Memberships are great, I still don't feel like I'm apart of the club whether thats the aim or not, it would be nice if you could be involved by "owning" a share. Any brokers/financial experts in here that could weigh in on the pros/cons, might just be a stupid crazy idea thats in my head.

North tried that - didn't work out too well for them 

[Little Goffy 14,506]

21 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

North tried that - didn't work out too well for them 

Ha, yes, Carlton supporters still insist they have won the most premierships, at 16.4 - that's including 20% of North's premierships in the 90s.

[Sir Why You Little 37,011]

2 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

Ha, yes, Carlton supporters still insist they have won the most premierships, at 16.4 - that's including 20% of North's premierships in the 90s.

Yes not one of Bob Ansett's best ideas!

[beelzebub 23,313]

7 hours ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

Lazy reporting bb. A check of North's website (which I did before posting the article) would tell the reporter that North's is The Shinboner Spirit!

I reckon retiring Harvey et al has cost them big time in membership numbers, even with Tassie!

I stand by my assertion that TBC is better !! Lol

[CBDees 3,167]

Interesting discussion with my niece on Christmas Eve (her and her partner are Melbourne barrackers, yet I have not been able to convince her to join or to enrol her her eldest toddler)! She spoke about Collingwood FC's Netball Team and the fact that she followed a lot of their player's, some of whom were recently poached from the Melbourne Vixens. She also mentioned that a number of the netball teams around Australia were directly aligned to other AFL and NRL teams, yet the  Melbourne Vixens were not. She thought that it would be very positive and consistent with our Women's AFL Team, if we aligned with the Melbourne Vixens, thereby increasing our appeal to many women who followed both codes.

Food for thought as we seek a competive edge in a city with nine AFL teams.

Edited December 26, 2016 by CBDees

[greenmachine 21]

doing well got a great feeling about 2017

 

[Its Time for Another 4,197]

Some observations from the membership tally so far. Although we are substantially ahead of past years most of the substantial leap in memberships happened between late October and late November. Since then the rate of increase through to early Dec and then late Dec has been at the same rates as previous years or even slightly less.

So the total may not be as much of a leap as the present numbers are showing as maybe we got a lot more member earlier than in the past probably with direct debits.

We seem to usually maintain the rate of increase so that's around 3000 at this point which would put us around 42,500 to 43,000.  However, if through the preseason and the early rounds of the season the team shows the improvement we are all hoping for there might be a larger increase. Here's hoping on all counts.

 

[dpositive 1,663]

On 27/10/2016 at 8:56 AM, TRIGON said:

This stereotype needs to be knocked on the head once and for all. MFC supporters now ski in Japan. These ski holidays do not clash with the AFL season proper!

No

We need to exploit this perception. Increase potential sponsorship by joining with a 4 wheel drive vehicle (Subaru)

Market on the mountains Scarves at retail outlets Gloves and jackets in club colours etc

Wecan always wear them in Japan and open up a new international market.

[CBDees 3,167]

On 22/12/2016 at 11:20 AM, CBDees said:

29426 ?

I am astounded that the MFC website still shows this as the current membership!  Are there no staff in the MFC office for the last three weeks or are people joining other Clubs?

[Satyriconhome 10,743]

2 minutes ago, CBDees said:

I am astounded that the MFC website still shows this as the current membership!  Are there no staff in the MFC office for the last three weeks or are people joining other Clubs?

Staff not allowed a Xmas break CBD? been told unofficially closer to 30000 now

[daisycutter 29,606]

5 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

Staff not allowed a Xmas break CBD? been told unofficially closer to 30000 now

it's a 5 minute job to update the web site count

[ArtificialWisdom 4,045]

8 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

it's a 5 minute job to update the web site count

In this day and age it should be automated. Unless there is a specific reason they want to hide the live value

[stuie 7,374]

Haha the MFC website complaints on Demonland are amazing!

 

[ArtificialWisdom 4,045]

2 minutes ago, stuie said:

Haha the MFC website complaints on Demonland are amazing!

 

The site is [censored] but it's not the clubs problem, Its contracted to (then outsourced by) Telstra.

[drdrake 3,163]

38 minutes ago, CBDees said:

I am astounded that the MFC website still shows this as the current membership!  Are there no staff in the MFC office for the last three weeks or are people joining other Clubs?

I think you find your first point is right, the club is or was closed from around the 20/12 and either returned yesterday or next Monday. Each year the office closes for 3 weeks over Christmas

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,710]

8 minutes ago, ArtificialWisdom said:

The site is [censored] but it's not the clubs problem, Its contracted to (then outsourced by) Telstra.

Surely the content on the site is the club's responsibility? (Having said that, I could see that the specific point being made on this thread about a meter showing the number of members might actually be the out-sourced contractor's responsibility). 

[CBDees 3,167]

The coaches are back, the players are back, Burgo has been posting quizzes, we have been getting player updates on both the Men's and Women's teams! Why not  either automate the membership tally or entrust somebody to do it? Sorry Saty, we don't all agree with you on this! ☹️

[ArtificialWisdom 4,045]

1 minute ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Surely the content on the site is the club's responsibility? (Having said that, I could see that the specific point being made on this thread about a meter showing the number of members might actually be the out-sourced contractor's responsibility). 

Yeah I was refering to both the automated meter and the fact it looks and feels outdated. But as for content the club would have control to a point, it depends on how the contract and website work. There would likely be some facility for the club to add content as they please but I would suspect there may be some instances where they have to put in support requests to the contractor. 

Of course this is all just guessing based my limited experiances in the industry, only thing I know for sure is that the AFL contracted telstra years ago to host their site(s) and the AFL app as well maintain them. Being telstra, they are not interested in actually spending any significant time and effort maintaining anything they passed the work on. The app was outsourced to Outware in 2011 but as of 2017 Hawkeye is taking over that and I'm not sure who they outsourced the website to.

[Satyriconhome 10,743]

23 minutes ago, CBDees said:

The coaches are back, the players are back, Burgo has been posting quizzes, we have been getting player updates on both the Men's and Women's teams! Why not  either automate the membership tally or entrust somebody to do it? Sorry Saty, we don't all agree with you on this! ☹️

Nah that's cool, just thought the posters knowing that most of the membership staff work 7 days a week during the season with the occasional weekend off, would cut them a bit of slack at Xmas

[george_on_the_outer 7,590]

When Telstra first got the contract for the AFL sites, each club was limited to the amount of content that they could submit for change each day....unless they wanted to pay an absolutely extortionate amount extra. 

So if you look at any other clubs site ( except Essendon, who were not party to the agreement, and perhaps Collingwood who have spent a bucketload to alter things) you will see the same format and  the same layout.  And they all have the same restrictions about content limitations.