How do we increase public awareness of crawling and events?

[SkaldidDog]

Originally Posted by Solitaire

With all the talk about crawling becoming a dying sport, you'd think the powers-to-be would welcome any help from dedicated members. The club section here on RCC is in tatters with little or no updates. Someone willing to update all club info should be snapped up immediately, IMO.

If JD was the So Cal rep and now there isn't one...why not?

Good point and great question!

J

[jason]

Originally Posted by ROWDY RACING

Event coverage.

We welcome anyone that wants to do coverage, we'll post your articles, photos, videos, ect. It's hard for Badger and I to make events now days. Lastyear we did send Harley to Nationals to do coverage.

Originally Posted by Constant Threat

How bout fund raiser raffles to go toward a marketing budget for let's say RC magazines adds.

Magazine ads are hard to do for events, magazines usually have like a 6 month lead time on getting ads in. That's hard to do as most of the big crawling events aren't fully planned or have sponsors figured out that far in advance.

Originally Posted by Curcal

Following Jslick's lead the group or individual putting on a qualifier should look into a having a greater media presence. The presence doesn't have to be professional because the way news travels these days is much different than it has in the past.
1. We need to promote better on this site. Unless you're looking for it the qualifiers can be easily missed. Not sure what kind of extra cost that may incur but something needs to be tweaked a little bit.

We've offered free advertising to qualifying events for years, very few event promoters have taken us up on it.

Originally Posted by ROWDY RACING

Need an active leader.

Someone dedicated and passionate about crawling themselves, that passion is what it takes to be successful.

I think it takes more than one person, a good group of people would be awesome.

Originally Posted by SkaldidDog

Jason/Badger do not return my PMs. Please help...and give SoCal a Rep please, JD resigned forever ago!

J

Just digging through my old PM's I have one from you asking to sticky a thread which is stickied, and it also asks to create a thread in which only you and Fish could post in, which cannot be done? Did I miss something else?

Originally Posted by Solitaire

With all the talk about crawling becoming a dying sport, you'd think the powers-to-be would welcome any help from dedicated members. The club section here on RCC is in tatters with little or no updates. Someone willing to update all club info should be snapped up immediately, IMO.

Yes I am down for having help.

Originally Posted by Solitaire

If JD was the So Cal rep and now there isn't one...why not?

All clubs don't have reps any longer, it has been that way for a few years.

[SkaldidDog]

Hey Jason, I will PM you about my questions. The SoCal representative spot is for the region of southern California, not for the club called SoCal. One of the most active areas in the country is without a representative and has been for some time.

[RcBro]

If this becomes a team effort I would love to help where I can. I'm very motivated and will help anywhere needed. No reason one guy should be forced to do it all. May be that time to spread the workload to lesson the work load and create productivity.


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[SkaldidDog]

Hey y'all,

After a lot of thought I have rescinded my offer to be the SoCal Rules Committee Representative. I love this cult and will follow my passion to promote and expand our local and regional crawling scenes via alternate volunteer routes.

I apologize if my actions have been disruptive to the USRCCA and counterproductive to crawling in general (sorry for the drama gents).

Catch y'all on the rocks!

J

[ROWDY RACING]

What could have been... Thanks for trying Joel.

[Absurd]

I know it's a few months old but I think as such a topic it's always relevant. When I helped my friends store run events in Ohio it was asked before every year started and the answer always came back the same as what y drag racing events were. Zero alcohol, drugs and swearing. Cost stayed under 15$ as long as it was not a major event and all talking to judges prohibited while they are judging a truck run. The alcohol was due to people showing up at our night runs drunk or drinking scares away women and kids when adults see them no sport or compition is ever taken seriously in news when drugs or alcohol is allowed, drugs we stomped this fast the track was along the side of the buiesness who supported this so stinking like weed or high. As a kite you were told to leave same reasons for alcohol. Swearing it happens I do it alot but on the track or event you would be marked +20 points for swearing a racial word = dq for the month. This lets parents watch their children get into this while keeping it clean also promoted women because who doesn't like girls around? Most hate vulgar self righteous toy players aka Rc guys who think they are the best at everything. Our goal was to make everyone happy while in the rules so to do so we set these as rules added to everything we did, now here in Cali at the parks I mark myself up 30 when I swear. But my point if we restrict it to this far you can contact full size off road or 4x4 magazines as well as news stations and radio stations for free publicity, we did this with drag racing Rc and got invited to sema and other car shows we also hosted runs at k.o.i. And the full size guys were amazed. But if you can get a news paper to do 1 report on your show of clean drug free alcohol free out doors activitys you can go to the city / county and get support by them for parks to be used for free how I know we done this in Ohio, California and the drag racing guys in Lynwood got the city to build them a track..

[SkaldidDog]

That's some valuable insight there. Thanks for posting. BLC will take your suggestions to heart.

J

[binaryterror]

Here's the problem our club had, granted we are a small group, but a USRCCA group.

1. Hobby Shops: Yes they love to sell us parts (that's where they make their money, not on kits or RTR's), but most of the parts crawlers and scalers want come from small vendors with no distribution methods. So they can't get those parts, or when someone is asking I have to help and tell them to buy online, losing the shop a valuable customer. Now our big shop would happily buy from smaller vendors, IF the crowd and demand was there - sadly online sales to us kind of kills them looking further into anything.

2. Coverage: Sure RCC is helping, but if you don't know about it...umm how do you find that? Magazines need more coverage to draw more people that think its cool, but never thought to look into it. Also is there cross coverage? I mean does Pirate know and support RCC (and maybe vice versa) or Crawl magazine, etc. People already into some form of the hobby would be happier to move over since they know the background is scaled down realism.

[EeePee]

Pirate has/had an RC section. This place spawned from that. RCC was a spinoff of Pirate.

We had a guy here who took photos for Crawl. Colorado guy, good videos. Maybe it is/was Ty?

And we had jasoninaugusta tied into some magazine that I can't recall the name of.

It was all there, ready to fly. It just didn't take off.