A Business of Curling Symposium is scheduled for October 13, from 11 am to 5 pm, with location yet to be confirmed. This symposium will be of interest to PEI curling club managers, presidents, and Board of Directors members, club volunteers and staff.
Please confirm whether or not your curling club will have representatives at this session. Please confirm by August 22 as plans will be finalized later next week. Confirmations can be sent to aduncan@sportpei.pe.ca.
Although, at this time you do not have to confirm names or numbers, it is our hope that this session will be attended by those in the club who make the decisions, and as we are hoping you will see and hear things you will want to try, we suggest bringing as many of those people as possible (volunteers and staff alike).
Amy Duncan, Executive Director, PEI Curling Association
Topics
Embracing Social Media
Curling clubs need to be familiar and active with applications ike Facebook and YouTube. Most of our potential customer base live in this world and so should we. You will learn 10 great tips to to make joining this exciting world worthwhile!
Bonspiels – Why Are We Having So Much Trouble?
It’s a regular occurrence to hear a club complain about declining entries in their club bonspiels. This session will examine what successful club bonspiels are doing to buck that trend!
Getting Started for Adults
This new, comprehensive instruction program is changing the curling world one member at a time! It is a simple program requiring a “leap of faith”, but it is a dramatic change to member retention and they way we do things!
Creative Thinking to the Struggles of Small Clubs
Clubs in small Canadian communities are struggling with rising costs and declining populations. How can they survive? The potential impact of partnership, relationships, events and ‘other’ businesses will be examined and discussed for solutions.
Membership Recruitment
Tips, tools and best practices to secure and improve the growth of your membership
Delivering Superior Customer Service
Building the business of curling has many facets that need to be coordinated under one umbrella called “superior customer service”. We are convinced keeping what you worked so hard to get (members) can be linked directly to delivering superior customer service. This session will guide you to that philosophy.
This one day session will be presented by Danny Lamoureux, the Canadian Curling Association’s Director of Curling Club Development. The Business of Curling program has been delivered across Canada to hundreds of clubs, manager and Board of Directors volunteers since 1995. Danny also managed the Ottawa Curling Club for 16 years.