Digital Memberships on the horizon maybe?

[DHort]

I see the HCCA now has digital memberships available for less than the cost of normal memberships.

You would not have to wonder when you receive your magazine in the mail. You get it the same day as everyone else.
Will no longer have coffee stains on the pages from the Postman reading it before you do.

What is the possibility that the MTFCA will go the same route? Is it being discussed?

[DanTreace]

Don't know if many would go for digital only and never get a printed magazine. Nice feature of the magazine is after use, can be passed on to others to get them interested in the club.

That full membership subscription, with print magazine is only $16 more than limited digital offering, that can't be shared.

[Les Schubert]

Digital membership would be a popular option for us foreigners!!

[Norman Kling]

I am old fashioned! I try to avoid doing anything digital if possible. I still have the land line phone and miss very much the telephone directory. I also like and still use paper maps. I still subscribe to the daily newspaper and use AM radio. I like to use paper money. But with inflation, I hardly see the need for coins. The dollar is worth about what a penny used to be when I was a boy. Soon I will be obsolete, but hopefully can do things the way I am used to doing for a few more years, then can say goodbye to this life which gets more complicated when each new model comes out.

[varmint]

When wife and I were co-editors for local AACA, members were given the option of print or digital for the 10 page monthly newsletter. There was no price difference. A few chose both.

[PDGx]

yes for a digital option.

[WillyR]

Whether I like it or not, I get dragged, kicking and screaming into the 18th century.....


I'm only on my second magazine, I keep meaning to ask other local members if they have back issues they don't want...

[VinTin23]

The print magazine is the foundation and sole reason many are even a member of the MTFCA or MTFCI. The magazine is really the ambassador and face of the club. I wager that a large percentage is not an active club member but enjoy reading about the events and folks having fun.

A number of clubs have gone digital and it had a devastating impact on the membership. One of my car clubs lost more than 50% of their membership within six months. The requests for refunds alone almost did them in. They reluctantly went back to a quarterly publication in an attempt to claw back some of the membership. This was an half hearted attempt and lacked the quality and content of the previous publication. Unfortunately, the damage was done.

Hopefully they think long and hard if this is even a consideration.

[Mark Gregush]

What is being suggested is giving people a "choice" not a being forced to have only one choice, digital. I have made this suggestion several times, that would come with a reduction of membership cost. Personally, I don't run into enough people that own or are interested in Model T's or any other old cars for that matter, that I could give the magazines to after reading to advance the club outside of the T club I am a member of. Sorry but while it is a wonderful magazine, there really isn't enough in it to warrant keeping. In our T club, one guy gives me his Internation mag., and I give my Dodge Brothers mag. to another member. When I am done with this and International clubs mag. I put them out on the table for my T club for people to take if they want. Pretty sure neither club has garnered any new members by giving the copies away.