What would you competitors like to see at shows?
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RW... any thougths on coming further East or is this out of your sales region so it's not quite worth your effort?
(btw, I don't mean this in a negative way at all.. I understand that a lot of what you do is both for your business goals and for the sport... so having shows have to complement these goals...)
(btw, I don't mean this in a negative way at all.. I understand that a lot of what you do is both for your business goals and for the sport... so having shows have to complement these goals...)
One of the main things i have planned this year is cross promotion. Promoting not only the shows we handle, but as many other shows as we can, including DB Drag, CSPL and IASCA. i think that if all promoters get together and help each other, and have competitors compete at each others shows itll greatly increase the interest, and visibility of all shows. We all our shows out so no one has to choose who's show they want to go to, we promote each other, run pre registration for upcoming shows, and encourage the competitors we have to bring friends by pro rating entry fees if they do. But it only works if we all work together.
Hold the SPL contest at already existing car shows.
This gives you a bunch of people at the location already, and may save you in advertising cost if you choose to do so. It would be advertised as a part of the car show on the same web site / flyer.
A friend of mine has a term lab and we hold very basic SPL comps, (not Db drag) at a couple car shows each year and it is not uncommon for us to get 30 - 40 competitors out of a show of 300ish cars. With zero advertising before hand
None of these people compete at any dedicated SPL shows and few of them register on their own, we usually have a few people walking around enticing them to register. Without this there would be very few registered, people tend to be lazy. But if you go to them they usually say yes.
What we do is not even close to a DB drag event, and serious competitors would not likely like it. But for the average guy that has a couple subs to play music..... they seem to love it.
Most of them have never been to a real Db Drag or CSPL event so if they are exposed to one you may develop more competitors out of these people
Just remember they key to making this work seems to be going to them at the car shows, (not for the SPL runs, just to register). Each year we go back to the same shows it gets a bit easier to register people, they expect to see you.
This gives you a bunch of people at the location already, and may save you in advertising cost if you choose to do so. It would be advertised as a part of the car show on the same web site / flyer.
A friend of mine has a term lab and we hold very basic SPL comps, (not Db drag) at a couple car shows each year and it is not uncommon for us to get 30 - 40 competitors out of a show of 300ish cars. With zero advertising before hand
None of these people compete at any dedicated SPL shows and few of them register on their own, we usually have a few people walking around enticing them to register. Without this there would be very few registered, people tend to be lazy. But if you go to them they usually say yes.
What we do is not even close to a DB drag event, and serious competitors would not likely like it. But for the average guy that has a couple subs to play music..... they seem to love it.
Most of them have never been to a real Db Drag or CSPL event so if they are exposed to one you may develop more competitors out of these people
Just remember they key to making this work seems to be going to them at the car shows, (not for the SPL runs, just to register). Each year we go back to the same shows it gets a bit easier to register people, they expect to see you.
Also been done at the Peterborough annual car show (whatever its called) of maybe 200 or so cars. Only like 4 guys participated in SPL.
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Thats unfortunate, I guess it may not work everywhere, but it is something to keep trying I guess.
Mabey more persistant girls with smaller bikinis to do the registering?, lol
Something else we do to, is charge for example $10 for 3 runs, or $5 for 1 run, alot of people seem to be worried about competing but we can usually convince them to give it a try for $5 and give them the option to add another $5 after thier first run to get the full 3 passes. Once most people get through the first run they almost alway have fun and also want to try and better thier score, so they add the extra $5. I have found it is a good way to convince someone that has never done it before to give it a try.
Mabey more persistant girls with smaller bikinis to do the registering?, lol
Something else we do to, is charge for example $10 for 3 runs, or $5 for 1 run, alot of people seem to be worried about competing but we can usually convince them to give it a try for $5 and give them the option to add another $5 after thier first run to get the full 3 passes. Once most people get through the first run they almost alway have fun and also want to try and better thier score, so they add the extra $5. I have found it is a good way to convince someone that has never done it before to give it a try.
Last edited by testtones; Jan 15, 2009 at 11:40 AM.
Thats unfortunate, I guess it may not work everywhere, but it is something to keep trying I guess.
Mabey more persistant girls with smaller bikinis to do the registering?, lol
Something else we do to, is charge for example $10 for 3 runs, or $5 for 1 run, alot of people seem to be worried about competing but we can usually convince them to give it a try for $5 and give them the option to add another $5 after thier first run to get the full 3 passes. Once most people get through the first run they almost alway have fun and also want to try and better thier score, so they add the extra $5. I have found it is a good way to convince someone that has never done it before to give it a try.
Mabey more persistant girls with smaller bikinis to do the registering?, lol
Something else we do to, is charge for example $10 for 3 runs, or $5 for 1 run, alot of people seem to be worried about competing but we can usually convince them to give it a try for $5 and give them the option to add another $5 after thier first run to get the full 3 passes. Once most people get through the first run they almost alway have fun and also want to try and better thier score, so they add the extra $5. I have found it is a good way to convince someone that has never done it before to give it a try.
At TSC in Ottawa this past summer we approached the Ottawa Honda Club... they offered to pay for any of their members that wanted to compete.
In return we set up a freestyle class JUST for them (so they could have bragging rights) and we had about 12 people sign up.
It was good times...
In return we set up a freestyle class JUST for them (so they could have bragging rights) and we had about 12 people sign up.
It was good times...
I ran into the same problem when i did the neon canada canadian neon nationals spl comp. I had about 8 ppl sign up of about 80 attendees. Thats why we want to open the lines of communication with all promoters to work together to ensure that all shows have a decent turn out. To get all shows out there and advertised, and working together so no one feels left out or having to choose who's show they wanna go to. We want to work with shops and help promote their business, we want to run along side show and shines for car clubs, performance shops, we all gotta work together to make it work.
Don I would recommed having 2 termlab set ups. One for all those who want to compete and another one just for some freestyle action for those who are little girls and are affraid of competition. You dont need any classes or any trophies (trophies imply winning/loosing), just let people have runs and charge them per run. To attract them you can do like give aways or prizes or something. But NOTHING that implies any shape, form or type of competition AT ALL. Cuz alot of these guys are actually girls. You can just charge like $5 per run or something, easy money for you.
