I think you should have free members, yes you should have free members in this org.

Think about this for a minute, you want money so things can be accomplished.

Have a Free membership to the org as well as a paid one with more member benifits.

The paid member will have more benifits so then its a choice to the contractor if he or she wants to join.

I think right now demanding people pay for something that your not sure whats going to happen is ok, but why turn these others and new guys that dont understand whats going on away now?

Here's the Facts, if the RCIA stays on track everyone will want to pay. But for the growth of the BBS and the org I think making a huge gap between the members and the NON-members right now is not the answer.

Allow these guys a membership for free, allow those who will recieve other benifits to pay and recieve the extra perks to pay.

Theres alot of orgs that have a dual membership.

I truly believe if you look at the reality and the numbers here right now its going to decline tremendously. Declining will not help the industry, the BBS was built to SEO Chris site.

Chris Tucker wanted to help guys throughout North America to insure the industry was doing this right. Raising the standards accross the board. Thus Raising the pricing in the industry.

Through a Certified program this can be accomplished.

Believe me if you do all the things you say your going to do everyone will eventually Join.

Just my thoughts