Attracting new faces to your club

[Big G]

So you have a club and it has it's regular 15 people racing.

What do you do to encourage new people and boost your racers?

[DCM]

best thing, is a good tie-up with the local hobby shops, so when people come in to buy cars, they get given a flyer for your club. Then when they get to your club, members be helpful.

If you want to attract existing racers, give them what they want, track time, fun and good racing.

[Borat]

Naked lesbiens, but not the men ones.

[Teddy truman]

the people who are coming.. get them to tell there friends or people they know.. or advitise locally..

[Si Coe]

Convert the local bashers.
Whenever I see people out bashing, I talk to them about racing, tell them about our club and invite them over to use the track.

Since many bashers use the Bury track anyway, we tend to meet some whilst practicing. They are normally impressed by how much better our cars go round the track, and get interested.

Finally, to help the conversion, first race is free, so a basher can give organised racing a try with no real outlay.

[mdb_75]

Four qualifying rounds instead of three!!

[Hairy Spider]

If you knocked on the door of the 10 closest houses to your venue and asked them if they knew there was a model car racing club there, how many would say yes? If they don't know about it, what chance have the rest of the county got? That's not meant to be sarcastic, that's just an observation. We've been going 25 years and we get our members from 3 main sources:

1. Word of mouth from the members via school friends and work colleagues etc. Why not lend your mate from work your old car to try for a few weeks...
2. Running race meetings at local summer fetes. Quite simply the best way to get the locals interested is to show them what you do. We've picked up a member or 2 from almost every event we've done over the years. You would be surprised at what else you can pick up from the local community once you start to get involved with it
3. The Club Website. Probably the single biggest contriutor to new members over the last 5 years. "I saw your website and I thought I'd come and have a look". Get them though the door once and there's every chance they will come back again

If you are looking for seasoned racers then that's more difficult since racers by definition probably already have somewhere to race.

Hope this helps and good luck
Jon.