Here is an interesting factioid from the PUTM page:

There was an increase of 300% Premier Universal Thread Memberships processed in the 2nd year of commercial production on the Universal Thread

The renewal percentage is at 85%

I may not be that off-base......




>>Numbers as high as 20,000 members of the UT fly around. To be conservative,
>>lets say that only 25% of these folks are active...
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>That's being liberal. If you check a repartition of members (PUTM, unfortunately), the number of people who logged in last on the day they joined over 2 years ago is quite high. Hmmm, let me check Bothell, where I live....
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>16 members
>7 have not been active since the day they joined
>2 were active for less than a week
>1 has been inactive for a year
>1 has been inactive for 2 years
>4 have been inactive for 6 months
>
>That leaves one active member out of 16.
>
>>OK, OK... I am now willing to give myself a 50% margin of error. However, that
>>still translates into $156,200 CDN. In US dollars, that is $104K. Not bad.....
>
>If you use more realistic numbers, though, it doesn't come out nearly this high...