If you are thinking
about your summer league bowling plans; good for you. If you have your plans
done; great. If you haven’t started yet,
well, good luck!
But no matter what
state your plans are in, here are a couple of more ideas to kick your revenue
bucket into a higher gear;
Here are a few
tips to make your summer even better:
1.
Don’t rely on just one flooring cycle. Sure your
winter leagues will end about the same time give or take a week, but that doesn’t
mean you can’t have programs in late June mid July and even early August.
2.
Establish programs for people who don’t know they
are not supposed to bowl in the summer; whether it be church fund raising
leagues for 6 or 8 weeks, or any fund raising organization, you will build some
revenue and get some people interested in your other programs you have to
offer.
3.
Make belie it is October and go after companies
for indoor picnics where you never get rained out, where you never have ants or
mosquitoes and no one gets heat stroke. If
you are diligent in this fashion, it could be your biggest winner ever.
4.
Set up 8 for 8 programs every month, May, June,
July and August and place them so they can carry over to the fall in time slots
you will know you have open. BY always
having an 8 for 8 program available, you always have a portal to entry and let people
know that there ARE lanes available at your center…always.
5.
Start a KBF league; two games but you get the
same kids there on specific days and can start informally coaching them and
maybe get them into an 8 week for 8 bucks have a ball program. Add food and drink specials and even a fun two
game tournament or two with kids on certain days. Play your cosmic bowling and
give away fun prizes that you can buy at Rebecca’s for 10 cents each.
6.
Beat the doors down for fund raisers. You have
plenty of lane availability and lots of people who are raising money. Go get a list of nonprofit groups and start
emailing, mailing and calling them NOW. start with your local chamber of
commerce, Kiwanis, Moose, Eagles and K of C clubs.
I’m not saying this
stuff easy, but if it was, everybody would do it!
