New Revenue ideas?

[Yeofan]

I contacted Yeovil suggesting they offer the same deal as Weymouth for the away tickets for the Yeovil v Torquay game. Hope they see sense.

[desperado]

Well done Yeofan thank you.

[Fozziefan]

How about asking Ollie Watkins to bring the Villa down for a friendly? I just read that he was born in Torbay hospital and lived in Newton Abbot or maybe he could donate a match shirt for auction.

[portugull]

My next door neighbours grandson played with Ollie at Exeter City so I have followed Ollie's career closely. Great young man.

[desperado]

Sods law our academy was closed when he was coming through or we surely would have had him. Bet we wouldn't have got 1.8 million for him though.

[Chill]

Here are a few other quick fire ideas

- Save Our Club Crowdfunding campaign with local and national appeal. Use social media, local media, and club website to highlight the situation and encourage donations.

- Charity matches (think former players and ex-pros who support grassroots football)

- Sponsored walking football (with ex pros) - this caught my attention at AFC Bournemouth where we now live https://www.afcb.co.uk/news/club-news/c ... all-match/

- Auctions; memorabilia, gifted items from local businesses

- Exclusive / Retro merch - see above. Other desirable items could be created, including re-runs of classic kits.

- Sell naming rights to the stadium (controversial perhaps!)

- Business Partnerships - for example borrowing ideas like ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ in partnership with local restaurants who create special menus with a portion of proceeds donated to the club,

- Online 50/50 draw - go BIG! Perhaps make it an 80/20 draw in favour of the club

- NLS Fantasy Football league - get fans from across the country involved. Pay to play, % process to TUFC.

- Digital match day programme - expand reach beyond the game with a digital programme that includes wider sponsorship opportunities, purchase programme via fixed price or minimum donation. It means fans who can’t get to the game can still contribute

- Boots and Laces Mega Quiz Night - pay to play, nominal prizes for winners. Proceeds to club.

- Community fundraisers - involve the local community, schools etc to host fun fundraising activities.

- Sell out concert @ Plainmoor - put on a fundraising concert with major bands, perhaps Muse would pay homeage to their wider roots? Think Live 8 for local football!

- Run a ‘Soccer 7s’ tournament and festival - this is another HUGE one from Bournemouth based on the rugby 7s which attracts 30,000 people each year. https://www.bournemouth7s.com/

- Sell Player NFTs (current and historic) - NFTs (Non-fungible tokens) are unique digital assets and artwork and could include collectible things like player cards. Funds could go to player wages

- Collectible player cards - same idea as above using the old school method. Think those World Cup stick books that come round every 4 years. I’ve still got piles of cards from when we had 4 divisions!

- Matchday bundle - create various ticket options for example 1) ticket and a pint, 2) ticket, pint and chips 3) ticket and home shirt - ideally include items where there is already a high profit margin on the items so that discounts can still be offered to purchasers.

Very commendable ideas, but in reality that's all they are, commendable, because most of them wouldn't run the club for five minutes let alone a season. I don't have any ideas commendable or otherwise, but the one thing that shouldn't remain an idea and be put into place at the next home game is the return of paying cash on the day. Why it was cancelled beggars belief.

Nope, ideas aren't going to save us and the only thing that will is a very nice person with very deep pockets.

[Chill]

Very commendable ideas, but in reality that's all they are, commendable, because most of them wouldn't run the club for five minutes let alone a season. I don't have any ideas commendable or otherwise, but the one thing that shouldn't remain an idea and be put into place at the next home game is the return of paying cash on the day. Why it was cancelled beggars belief.

Nope, ideas aren't going to save us and the only thing that will is a very nice person with very deep pockets.

Having been left somewhat red-faced by Bristol Gull and his seemingly endless ideas for new revenue, I thought I'd better put my thinking cap on. So today I emailed an American billionaire, because if Wrexham can do it why can't we? This person fits the criteria perfectly, being a very nice person (so not Jeff Bezos) and with that sort of money their pockets must be pretty deep. I must stress though, that the holding of breath is not to be undertaken!

[dagglebert]

One of the many failures of the Osborne regime was to not do much on this front, a new ground being really the only substantive proposal. When Frank Warren took over Leyton Orient ("yours for a pound"), the first thing he did was revamp the club shop, doubling its size, and the commercial operation. A new stand was financed by building flats at the corners of the ground, and a nightclub under the new stand. Not necessarily appropriate for Plainmoor, but shows what being innovative and proactive can do.

[dagglebert]

Barrie Hearn, not Frank Warren! Sorry !

[happytorq]

Having been left somewhat red-faced by Bristol Gull and his seemingly endless ideas for new revenue, I thought I'd better put my thinking cap on. So today I emailed an American billionaire, because if Wrexham can do it why can't we? This person fits the criteria perfectly, being a very nice person (so not Jeff Bezos) and with that sort of money their pockets must be pretty deep. I must stress though, that the holding of breath is not to be undertaken!

Is it Mark Cuban?

It's Mark Cuban, isn't it?

[Brewers boy]

Biggest thing we can do to increase revenue is to get more people through the turnstile. Easiest way for that is for the team to start winning again. A little more quality on the playing staff would pay for itself and more. The players are out there, some may only want to be part time and we would have to work to accommodate that.
If the players do their bit on the pitch, then it's easy for us fans to get our mates to come along.

[happytorq]

Biggest thing we can do to increase revenue is to get more people through the turnstile. Easiest way for that is for the team to start winning again. A little more quality on the playing staff would pay for itself and more. The players are out there, some may only want to be part time and we would have to work to accommodate that.
If the players do their bit on the pitch, then it's easy for us fans to get our mates to come along.

we're not going to be signing any more playrers when the club doesn't have anybody paying the bills.

[Brewers boy]

we're not going to be signing any more playrers when the club doesn't have anybody paying the bills.

That could all change next week. In the meantime a win tomorrow will be a start.

[UnitedinDevon]

Shame it's taken this situation for some of the revenue ideas and positive social media engagement

I hope the new owner really taps into the catchment area we have, no reason we can't have decent gates each week with a bit of creativity

[culmstockgull]

Having had a good look at the revenue ideas the reality is there is only so much juice you can squeeze out of an orange, or extract from supporters on a regular basis, all of the ideas so far have merit but cannot by guaranteed on a weekly or long term basis. We are not a high wage area. Just see how attendances drop off if we have a saturday and tuesday home game.
We need to reduce the big cost items, I like the idea we have at the moment, albeit a short term one in that we have a manager and a senior player as his unoffical assistant, a saving of one costly wage, the physio position who also seems to have an assistant and a conditioning/fitness coach, can we not open that up to taking paying customers,we have the facilities and expertise, a sports recovery centre of excellance, logically if it took off, the position of physio/assistant/conditioning coach could be cost neutral, might even make a profit ,more so if we could engineer a contract with the local NHS who never seem to have enough staff to cover their patient load.
We have 23 paid pros , why can they not replace the majority of staff in youth and womans set ups, not all of which I realise are paid, five pros could cover the whole weekly training schedule, there will be issues with this but we pay full time pros and some have put in less than a game a month this season through illness and injury,they are not productive in any sense but it doesnt stop them walking a touchline giving the benefit of their knowledge and experience and helping towards their coaching badges.
Undoubtedly one of our biggest outlays besides players is our electricity usage, why do we not have a solar panel system on at least one of the stands with a battery storage system, all the stands cannot logically be facing in the wrong direction, I am sure there are many businesses in the wider bay who specialise in such things who could help us with a favourable deal.