Pa e 22 RAIN November 1978 HELP UPDATE Well, the responses from Rainfolk to our plea for HELP have been trickling in day by day, and the trickle has accumulated into an overflowing of responses that indicate you folks want u·s to continue. So, we're going to continue! (Whew!) We've been brainstorming about how to do a promotional campaign so that_ we can increase our su}?scribership to about 8,000-10,Q00 people. In order to increase by that amount via direct mail,.we need to do a mailing to 400,000 people (Yikes!) (at a normal 1-2 percent return). We guess that this is going to cost us roughly $60,000 as follows: $16,000.00 to purchase mailing lists at $40/1000 10,000.00 bulk mailing at .027/ea 34,000.00 printing and mailing $61,400.00 Many friends have indicated they want to help us, so here are three concrete ways to give Rain a hand: 1. Donate a,large amount of (taxdeductible) money to our promoti'onal fund. 2. .Send us any mailing lists that _you have access to so that we can have names of people who could use Rain well, and cut cost of purchasing mailing lists. 3. Send us the names and addresses of 3 fri'ends who you think would like to know about Rain so we can accumulate our own mailing list. (Use nhe handy form on this' page.) Any of these ways of support are important and should be done right away, since we have such lag .time between this writing and your reading. We feel real good about this surge and time of growth; it's already adding some freshness to our Rain: the enthusiasm of our new readers as well as that of our old-timers. - RAIN'S NEW INDEX Speaking of old times, I've just finished an exciting project that Lane started and almost finished a while ago: Tf;IE INDEX of all and everything in Rain, Volumes I, II, III, IV, and Rainbook too. Its usefulness to'us is ~nending: especially felt right now while it's at the typesetters and inaccessible to us. Essentially it's our filing system for aimost all the information that passes through here. Now old friends with back issues ·can find anything in old Rains that they're looking for (and most likely you'll find many more great items th~t you weren't). New friends will be able to look through and order back issues that have important information. Be sure to watch the next issue for price and ordering information. One request to our mobile subscribership: please send us a change of address if you move (before you move if possible!) so that you doq't miss any Rain. Also it's a big time and financial drain: we have to pay anywhere from 20-40¢ to the post office for every issue -which adds up, and we also havdto try to find you.... Thanks. We're still looking for a couple of people to intern at Rain. Possible living space in the Rainhouse and $25/week as a stipend are offered in exchange for a chance to help us out of our financial crunch and to learn the internal operations of our'magazine and networking system. An incredible amount of information comes through here daily; only the finest sifted out into the magazine-the remainder a~- tempting to overload our circuits. Contact me if you're interested. -LS l?aindr-ops RAIN Mailing List name.,......__________________________ address _ _ _ _ _ --e-----.---------------- city, state, zip________._________;,________ name ________________________ address _______________________ city, state, zip______________________ name------,-------------------- address _ ________________________ city, state, zip _____________________
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