Are you thinking of organizing a car club? Or maybe reorganizing one? Car clubs are a great method for enthusiasts of a certain marque or sort of car to share their knowledge.
Most car clubs are based on ownership of a marque of car or even ownership of a particular model, but it could also be a club for owners of cars of a particular age.
Therefore, the first thing to do while setting up or reorganizing a car club is to ascertain who the club is for. The more strict you make the club, the less members you are likely to get, which could be a difficulty unless you live in a large city.
It is a great deal of effort to establish a good set of rules and a mission statement, so it is best if you can find some help, possibly by getting a couple of others to form a small committee.
Maybe the easiest method of finding a few more enthusiasts would be to either put an advert in the paper or go down to the showroom of the marque you are interested in and talk to the sales people.
The committee can choose how what the club will focus on: for example sports cars, Mercedes, pre-1945 or whatever. Then decide on how often the club will get together: monthly or quarterly or whatever and who is entitled to join: owners of these cars exclusively or enthusiastic non-owners as well.
Other things to decide would be whether there is a joining fee and / or annual membership fee; whether there will be a magazine or newsletter or / and a web site. What type of events and proceedings will the club hold? Races? Rallies? An annual dinner-dance?
A bring and buy sale of spare parts and accessories is usually a well-liked event. Members can bring along superfluous parts and accessories related to the car that the club is focused on. Where will you hold your meetings? In a church hall or in a spare room in a pub?
A website is a useful method of communicating with club members, but a blog is even better for allowing members to interact with every other. Best of all would be a website which only one person is allowed to update and a blog on the same domain name.
Every club member can be given a user name and password to the blog and then members can sign in and chat to each other in real time. This is not difficult to set up.
All you have to do is lease hosting space (less than $100 per annum) and buy a domain name (less than $10). WordPress, a free blogging program, is usually available with the hosting.
Then you will need to either pay a designer to make a web site for you or get someone to do it for you. Lots of people under the age of 30 can design and set up a simple but effective website.
The website will become an important part of your recruitment drive and by and large reduce your marketing costs as well.
Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on many topics, but is now concerned with car detailing prices. If you want some suggestions on detailing cars come over to our website now at Detailing Car Interiors.
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