Business of Curling
Paul Webster is the Curling Director at The Glencoe Club in Calgary. He does “a fair bit of coaching” in this sport, but he also has valuable insights from a club program perspective. Currently in his second year of working with the membership of The Glencoe Club, Webster shares his personal perspective on what is undoubtedly his club’s most successful program.
Picture this: your curling centre has a terrific social bonspiel coming up soon, and you want to get the word out to participants. You also want to entice some non-curlers to check out the action at your club and maybe give curling a try. Great! You’re all set – but what’s the best way to spread the news?
They’ve been curling at the Glendale Golf and Country Club in Hamilton, Ontario, since 1960, but when ClubLink stepped in to take over management of the golf facility two years ago, the big question arose: will Glendale continue to offer curling as well as golf?
The Canadian Society of Club Managers (CSCM) is an organization dedicated to supporting club managers across Canada. That professional support includes some of the following (excerpted from their benefits package):
According to the mission statement of the Strait Area Community Curling Club in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, the club is “committed to promoting our sport in a friendly atmosphere while providing affordable, quality programs for curlers of all ages and abilities.”
Curling Quebec Announces the Team Captains of the First Caledonia Cup
Our sport keeps chugging along, gaining momentum every week it seems. All the neat stories in the news
In the past couple of weeks (co-incidentally with the start of the curling season!) we have received numerous requests about waivers of liability and assumption of risk agreement. After consulting with Steven Indig from Sport Law & Strategy Group we have developed a few tips and options for you, as well as new updated templates you can use to create your own custom version.
Matt Hames has created a list of 10 tips to get your club’s social media presence up and running. This powerful ‘awareness’ option is a valuable one and it should be leveraged to help build the business at the community level. Good luck with it and we will watch for your presence in this ‘social’ world!!
True Sport, ParticiPaction and the CBC are staging the second Sports Day across Canada on September 17th. The event’s intention is to showcase Canadian sports and to celebrate those sports at the community level.
We have been recently challenged by a couple of curling club managers to consider creating an online forum for club managers and/or Board members where they could share ideas and best practices.
Another off-season is fast coming to a close and the next curling season is right around the corner.
Resby Coutts is from Manitoba and a promoter of our great sport in almost every area of our business imaginable. He wrote this short piece on his web site and it set the bells ringing at my end.
A partnership between Rocks & Rings, Curl BC and the Canadian Curling Association has produced dramatic results in Northern BC.
Audrey Frey is the manager of the Rideau Curling Club in Ottawa, played lead for Anne Merklinger at a number of Tournament of Hearts, AND is about to graduate as a sommelier!!
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