Your donation dollars at work…

Posted by Maximum Fun on 10th May 2006

Thought I’d offer an accounting of where your donation dollars (and the show) are going…

The big expense this month is our mailing — we’re sending out 225 or so Maximum Fun Club cards, we made stickers (they’re expensive!), and of course, there’s ink and envelopes and postage and everything. So that’s a total cost of several hundred dollars, enough to put us a bit in the red for now.

Also… I bought our first ever bit of advertising, just to try that out. 10,000 impressions on the Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society blog through Federated Media. Those ads just started running today. May be a disaster, but I figured it was worth a shot. $75 total, iirc.

I also joined the Association of Independents in Radio, which is a trade group for independent radio producers. There are precious few independent programs like this one, but hopefully the much more seasoned folks at AIR can help guide this show to future successes, particularly in the radio arena. They were nice enough to let me sign up at the student rate of $35/year.

On the horizon are new pins and t-shirts, although that may be delayed by my employment status (or more accurately, unemployment status).

Talking with some folks about whether to incorporate or become a non-profit, or what. That’s still in the air. If you happen to know a lot about those issues, get in touch.

So, there you have it… your donation dollars at work. If you haven’t donated already, consider doing so now. You can support the show for as little as $2 a month, and I know you like it that much, or you wouldn’t be here :).

I think I’ll do a state of the show cast once some loose ends get tied down, just to keep everyone up-to-date, but in the meantime, that’s that.