10-04-2011, 09:04 AM
Speaking from experience of running a club in college, the best way to sustain yourself is to have events where people who don't really care anything about your club give you money. Car events are okay, but they generally appeal to a limited market and that market isn't very liberal with cash.
What we found to be most successful was to sell something at school events that random people wanted, whether it be funnel cakes or bumper stickers. If everything is MM or car-related, you end up hurting yourself due to limited appeal.
You might also consider looking for companies that pay to hand shit out on college campuses. We made quite a bit of money by handing out an assload of Nescafe is college. :lol:
I've realized a huge moneymaker is a chick/car calendar. Get some random hot girls, give them some cash, get a super pro awesome photographer to take pictures and sell those bitches for $20/pop. Your production costs (read: paying models) could be as low as $300 and I think that sorta thing would sell like balls on a college campus.
Of course all this requires the donation of time from the members. Most will groan at the idea, but it's better than raising dues and still never having any money. This sounds like a lot of work to college kids... and it is... and that's the ultimate problem. College kids are lazy. The good news is if you actually come up with something to improve cash flow, you can put it on your resume. I've read my share of college grad resumes and I can tell you I'm much more inclined towards someone who has an actual accomplishment beyond not flunking out.
What we found to be most successful was to sell something at school events that random people wanted, whether it be funnel cakes or bumper stickers. If everything is MM or car-related, you end up hurting yourself due to limited appeal.
You might also consider looking for companies that pay to hand shit out on college campuses. We made quite a bit of money by handing out an assload of Nescafe is college. :lol:
I've realized a huge moneymaker is a chick/car calendar. Get some random hot girls, give them some cash, get a super pro awesome photographer to take pictures and sell those bitches for $20/pop. Your production costs (read: paying models) could be as low as $300 and I think that sorta thing would sell like balls on a college campus.
Of course all this requires the donation of time from the members. Most will groan at the idea, but it's better than raising dues and still never having any money. This sounds like a lot of work to college kids... and it is... and that's the ultimate problem. College kids are lazy. The good news is if you actually come up with something to improve cash flow, you can put it on your resume. I've read my share of college grad resumes and I can tell you I'm much more inclined towards someone who has an actual accomplishment beyond not flunking out.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth