Dan, Reading your ideas, these popped into my head:

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1 - Offer a discounted membership rate for the 1st year to any first time members of the club. It is possible that a discounted rate would get people who are on the fence to give the club a try and hopefully fall in love with it as most of us have. This offer wouldn't be good for any renewals, is only good for the first year, and wouldn't be available to anyone who has been a member in the past

This might sound cheap, but I bet it would work: have the Club pay $1 for each recruitment of a new member. It would encourage members to advertise the Club in various ways including eBay auctions. Not sure how it would work. There could be a "sponsor" box to be filled in on the application form.

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2 - Add a list of resources and related websites to all of the main collecting pages. These could include links to all websites that sell casino chips, related information, collecting supplies, reference materials etc... I think that having all of this information in one place could really help new collectors, people with minimal interest in the hobby, seasoned collectors, and the people who run all of the websites. If we could have this added to all of the main sites like the chipboard, CC>CC, chipguide, poker chip sales websites, other message boards, etc... it would really help people out and bring more attention and knowledge to the hobby

Good idea, a collecting page with links. Make it so you need a password to get to view the page, a password given to members-only. (I know that some non-members will get the password, but no harm done, and will be a net-good.)

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Robert