Tips For Organizing A Car Club

Are you thinking of setting up a car club? Or perhaps reorganizing one? Car clubs are a good method for enthusiasts of a certain marque or sort of car to share their information.

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 when setting up or reorganizing a car club is to establish who the club is for. The more strict you make the club, the less members you are likely to have, which could become a difficulty unless you live in a big city.

It is a lot of effort to establish a decent set of rules and a mission statement, so it is best if you can find some help, possibly by getting a few 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 frequently the club will meet: monthly or quarterly or whatever and who is entitled to join: owners of these cars only or enthusiastic non-owners too.

Other items to make a decision about would be whether there is a joining fee and / or annual membership fee; whether there will be a publication or newsletter or / and a website. What sort 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 usually 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 web site is a useful way of keeping in touch with club members, but a blog is even better for permitting members to interact with each other. Best of all would be a website which only one person is allowed to update and a blog on the same domain name.

Each 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. Many those under the age of 30 can design and set up a simple but effective web site.

The website will be an vital part of your recruitment drive and generally reduce your marketing costs as well.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on many subjects, but is now involved with car detailing prices. If you want some suggestions on detailing cars come over to our website now at Detailing Car Interiors.