In a message dated 10/8/2005 10:06:00 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
navid@xperformance.com writes:
Economics has a big part in the reduction in attendance. But why is it
hitting us harder than other clubs?
IMHO, other clubs cater to more serious autoxers where as SFR caters more to
more casual (for lack of a better term) autoxers. These are the people who
will not travel more than 20 miles to an autox and don't care what surface
they run on. This group would also tend to drop off in bad economic times
...or say if there was a World Series game on.
In good economic times, we had it all figured out: SFR had enough attendance
from casual autoxers to set attendance records and the hardcore autoxers
flocked to the other clubs. Now we are faced with declining attendance from
our casual autoxers because of economics and our hardcore autoxers because
they have found homes in other clubs.
I think Navid is onto something, here. Call it "serious vs. casual" or
whatever you want to, but if you look at the percentage of our competitors who
didn't attend very many events, I think it's higher than AAS, for example.
I'd
bet that if 75% (and I'm just throwing out a number, I have no idea how many
it actually is) of AAS competitors attended 75% of their events, less than
50% of our competitors attend 75% of our events.
Within Northern California in general, and the Bay Area in particular, there
are just a LOT of things to do. We are spoiled in that respect. Choices,
choices, choices...
<< Sorry I call'em as I see'em! >>
Careful, Navid! Calling them like you see them can hurt your political
career within SCCA! :-)
Charlie
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