Boston Tooling & Machining Association

PO Box 8266 Ward Hill, MA 01835-0766

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BTMA Member Survey

Chapter Meetings

The BTMA Operations Committee would like to get your input on issues related to chapter meetings. Please take a few minutes to complete this survey and provide us with feedback.

1.How long has your company been a member? _____ less than 2 yrs.

_____ fewer than 5 years

_____ 5 to 10 years

_____ more than 10 years

2.On average, how many BTMA Monday evening dinner meetings do you attend a year?

_____ 0_____ 1-2_____ 3-4_____5-6_____ All

3.Is there another meeting night that would be better for you than Monday? _____ yes _____ no

If yes, please indicate which evening:_____Tues. _____Weds._____Thurs.

4.If you attend 3 or fewer mtgs./yr., is the meeting being held on a Monday the main factor in your not attending. _____yes _____no

5.Do you think that the $30 pp meeting price is a reasonable cost?_____yes _____no

6.Please rate the topic areas in order of interest to you (1: most interest, 2: some interest, 3: no interest)

______Technical ______Business Operations _____Social/Special Events

______Management Issues ______PlantTours/Member Open House _____Government Affairs

______Other: ______

7.Please rate your reason for attending BTMA meetings (1: most interest, 2 some interest, 3: no interest)

_____ Meeting Topic_____ Networking_____ Keep up w/Industry Trends

_____ Camaraderie_____ Want to be involved in chapter activities

8.Would you attend BTMA sponsored:breakfast meetings _____ yes _____ no

luncheon meetings _____ yes _____ no

full-day/half-day seminars _____ yes _____ no

_____ Instead of our evening meetings?_____ In addition to our evening meetings?

9.We try to have our meetings at a locale that is central to most who travel to our meetings.

Does the location of our meetings prevent you from attending regularly? _____ yes _____ no

If yes, where is your company located? ______ME/NH _____ South of Boston

_____ West of Boston ______North of Boston in MA

10.Please rate the frequency of our regular meetings (6x/yr). _____not enough _____ too many

_____ just enough

11.Would you host a plant tour of your shop? _____ yes _____ no

Any suggestions on where you’d like to have us set up a tour?

______

12.We will be featuring a raffle at each of our meetings. Do you have any items that you’d be willing to donate towards one of these raffles (event tickets, gift certificates, logo items, etc.)

_____ yes_____ noIf yes, we will contact you to follow up.

13.We’d really like to have your input on anything regarding our meetings. Please comment on things we haven’t covered in this survey, or add an explanation re any of your responses. Write your comments below.

Name (optional) ______

Please email or fax this form back Cindy Zylkuski Norris at

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Thank you for your time. We want to make BTMA better for you. - Mark Merullo – Chairperson, BTMA Operations Committee

FH Peterson Machine Corp.