Pointers For Organizing A Car Club Are you thinking of organizing a car club? Or perhaps reorganizing one? Car clubs are a good method for enthusiasts of a certain make 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 certain model, but it could also be a club for owners of cars of a certain age. Therefore, the first thing to do when setting up or reorganizing a car club is to establish who the club is for. The more specific you make the club, the less members you are likely to have, which could be a difficulty unless you live in a big city. It is a lot of work to set up a decent set of rules and a mission statement, so it is best if you can get some help, possibly by finding a few others to form a small committee. Maybe the easiest way of finding a few more enthusiasts would be to either put an ad in the paper or go down to the showroom of the marque you are interested in and talk to the sales staff. The committee can decide on how what the club will focus on: for instance 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 eligible 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 publication or newsletter or / and a web site. What type of activities and proceedings will the club hold? Races? Rallies? An annual dinner-dance? A bring and buy sale of spare parts and accessories is normally a well-liked event. Members can bring along superfluous parts and accessories related to the car that the club is targeted 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 each other. Best of all would be a web site which just one person is permitted 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 every other in real time. This is not difficult to set up. All you have to do is rent hosting space (less than $100 per annum) and buy a domain name (less than $10). Wordpress, a free blogging program, is normally accessible with the hosting. Then you will need to either pay a designer to make a website 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 web site.
The website will be an important part of your recruitment drive and by and large reduce your marketing costs as well. Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on numerous subjects, but is currently involved with car detailing prices. If you want some tips on detailing cars come over to our website now at Detailing Car Interiors.