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Originally Posted by RCS2810
As there's a southern scoob club I was thinking of making a jap car club. To be honest it would be similar to this club, in other words we wouldn't have weekly meets at mcds buy rather monthly meets at pubs and stuff.
Obviously the club would be directed to Japanese cars in the south east, would have a forum, memeberships etc.
Just an idea really as I dont know of any big south jap clubs? Just wondered if anyone would have any input? Negative or positive.
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Right, here's my view on it...
- If you're not well established and well known in the community, you've no hope getting something off the ground (just being straight with you).
- What can you offer that other clubs can't?
- It costs money to setup a forum. Hosting will be at least £80-100 a year for a basic package that allows MySQL databases, plus vBulletin isn't cheap (yes, there are free forum packages out there but they're not as nice and streamlined imo). You'll need someone at least semi-IT savvy to setup and manage either choice.
- Memberships to raise money won't work. A forum has to be free for people to be interested. Nobody will pay money for something when there's something better available for free elsewhere.
- Many people ahead of you have tried and failed. People who have been around the Subaru/Jap scene for many years (even decades). To be frank, plenty of us have seen it all before, it normally ends up with nobody posting on the new forum and the owner wondering why they bothered spending any money on it in the first place....
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Originally Posted by Hongkongfooi
If you fancy doing your own club then fair enough but personally don't think its very fair talking about setting up another site on here imho.
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+1.
Especially on the basis that you'd be primarily trying to recruit members from SES, I expect
