
As most of you know, we rebroadcast almost all of our Tuesday and Friday seminars. Now Friday seminars are free, so we don’t expect them to bring in a revenue stream. With the Tuesday seminars, we do charge $50 for an all day seminar (which pays for the RACE, and really, this is the Foundation’s largely sole source of income at the moment, along with our four core multi-way courses). Our Tuesday seminar topic are times and our speakers top-notch. However, a lot of folks simply wait until a rebroadcast, where they can get this material, which we are ALL working very hard on, for free. This is not to say that the Foundation is money-oriented, and i can certainly understand the folks that are in awkward time zones. It’s not really a problem yet, but I can see it becoming one going forward, if our core customers in the Americas decide it is easier to “game the system”, wait a day, save money (and in doing so, not support the Foundation). It’s not an easy solution, so I am very open to how you all see this will play out and any suggestions you may have. At the moment, I am going to stop the comments on our FB seminar announcements to prevent people from asking about rebroadcasting (one person asks, 4000 people know.) I will still continue to answer emails about it one-on-one, especially to folks in other time zones. This way people will at least have to wonder if they will have a chance to see them later on….and it may force a few to rearrange their schedule and not rely on the largesse of the Foundation. $50 isn’t really much for 8 hours of RACE CE - for comparison, the ACVP will be charging $150 for a very similar workshop (our annual ACVP workshop) on Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology which we have put together… So I am interested in everyone’s viewpoint about how to maintain our small revenue stream AND rebroadcasts going forward. b