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| I was brainstorming a few ideas when I was bored and I pinged a few ideas to the club, the email I sent was long, dull and boring - here are a few points. Not all are probably viable, but some really are.
Quote Remember crowds are news, and big crowds are big newsTargeted at Businesses;
[* Huddersfield Partnership; offer MD’s a free family hospitality ticket and join the organisation. Any takers for tickets should be given a 20 further tickets per business to hand out to staff (or covering the whole company if smaller than 20 employees).
[* Business Awareness; Every business within a ten mile radius of the stadium should be given a newsletter at the start of the season advertising sponsorship, and with a fixture list and ticket prices.
[* Pubs; Offer a discounted commercial or season ticket for every Pub in the local area, to be raffled off or to be sold on game days.
Targeted at Casual Supporters;
[* Email; Obtain the email and address of any persons who collects a discounted single ticket. This should be used to stay in contact and keep them informed about fixtures and latest news.
[* Facebook; Rename the Huddersfield Giants Fan Page on Facebook to Huddersfield Giants. The Term ‘Huddersfield Giants’ has 8,831 likes on Facebook and the Fan Page has 3,000.
[* Twitter (1); Always use a short hashtag on every tweet, something like #GRL or #HGRL
[* Twitter (2); During games, keep fans updated with minute by minute updates, these will fill twitter feeds and increase exposure.
[* Twitter (3); Pin ticket information at the top of the Giants twitter feed, during the off season have a pinned tweet linking to season ticket information
[* Social Media; Put interviews with players and press conferences on twitter, Facebook and the website to allow casual fans to know the goings on of the club and keep them aware of games both in the past and future.
[* Above the Line Advertising; Put coupons for discounted single and family tickets in free Magazines such as HD Connect, which has a 162,000 person circulation. We're in a situation of non-awareness.
[* Big Games; Target five big games that have under performed in terms of attendance; Leeds, St Helens, Wigan, Warrington, Hull with Groupon tickets and group deals. Have maybe 5 tickets for £40 or 3 for £30. The difference between 2009 (Ave: 7,900) and Now is that we aren't getting more casual walk up for the Big Five. Those games were on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays and people shown up. We haven't got a 10,000+ crowd in SL in about 3 years I think. We should be remedying this with offers and making the games more events. In the lead-up, players should be available on Calendar, BBC Radio Leeds, Five Live, wherever they can get exposure.
[* Unidays; have a discounted ticket offer on the Unidays website, and try and set up a deal with the University.
[* Twitter (Again); Always post a nice picture, decent res on every Tweet. It makes the tweets bigger and it makes them stand out more.
[* Twitter (Continued); Run competitions in return for new followers on Twitter, Hyde FC have 45,000 followers.
Make the tweets a little bit more uniform and nicer, so they stand out. PEOPLE CAN NOTICE WHEN THINGS ARE IN CAPITALS, BUT GET ANNOYED WHEN IT’S DONE OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME AND FOR NO REASON. So say something like INJURY NEWS: Danny Brough for #HGRL against @WiganRL - which has a lot of variation in Colour (links, hashtags and handles are in blue on twitter) and attracts the eye, with a picture as well to make it bigger.
[* Twitter (Me being Pedantic); Add the actual link to tweets, even better, obtain a short url like gia.nt or something
[* Walking Revenue; Have a permanent mobile billboard and drive it round a few places on matchdays, and the day before with Fixture, Ticket Prices and a Ticket Hotline.
[* Batley fans; when games are on a Friday Night, replicate the offer Batley have where ST holders can get in for a Fiver. A few might turn up and every little helps.
[* "Remember crowds are news, and big crowds are big news" Sonny Werblin - exposure is hard to come by, especially in Rugby League, and a five figure crowd would turn heads. 15,000 would get people talking.
[* Events; Have a Giants presence at the Festival of Light, Food and Drink Fair and (RETROSPECTIVELY
) Tour de France. Have fixture lists, players and even a few Cheerleaders.
[* Town Centre Tickets; Try and find a location for a town centre ticket office. People like convenience.
[* Outlying areas; Try and get an advertising presence in all local Train Stations and Bus Stations (Brighouse B/T, Deighton, Mirfield, Liversedge, Hecky, Clecky). These are the areas Town get 11,000 from - maybe a few might be Fartowners too?
[* Buses?; Perhaps organise a game-day shuttle bus going around the town and down to the ground. Olympique Lyon have their own Taxi Service, maybe we could do the same. Have the bus branded with Claret and Gold stuff, and charge a pound. Driving advert for the club.
[* Membership Scheme; Perhaps allow casual fans who are might increase their intake to rake up points than can be exchanged for stuff (Reduced Tickets, Mugs, Balls) that keep people who might not go enough to buy STs but enough to want a little bit more sweet.
[* HTFC; We may not be their biggest fans, but we should offer a season ticket from May to August to cover the off season, for, say £60. Offer 5 home games and a voucher to exchange for a £10 further ticket later on in the season
Targeted at Hardcore Fans
[* Exclusive Club; Try and get deals in Season Tickets that are worth having, involving Sponsors and perhaps discounts. Perhaps run more Season Ticket only events throughout the year.
[* Appointment to View; Give the team an ‘appointment to view’ so that fans can buy a season ticket and know they can get to most games. If possible (I know, sky, I know) keep to one day, and roughly one time. (I would suggest Friday, but what do I know)
[* Kiddies; Offer a season ticket, instead of free entry, to every child under 12 in the town for the Family Stand - which could be extended to all of the Riverside. When I was 6-7, having a season ticket got me excited about games. Have competitions like a kit designing competition and offer a season ticket to the top 500 or 600. Continue the encouragement to come down early with a few players outside the 19, face painting behind the stand and really get the kids going. Don't forget - the Riverside is the one shown on TV!
[* Teens; Replicate the above point, with a certain number of season tickets free (obviously a different competition), maybe 2 or 3 to every High School and Sixth Form College in Kirklees, and furthermore, make sure every High School and Sixth Form has a player in it at some point during the season, a Fixture List and a Poster for Big Games.
[* Introduce a Friend; Offer a really decent prize if you introduce a friend, like a trip to meet the squad or a signed ball or something, and also have 'taster tickets' in season tickets that can be exchanged, with a name and address for a ticket for a fiver. I
Targeted at Away Fans
[* Cheap Away Days; Offer to clubs like Castleford, Widnes and Wakefield a ticket swap where the Away Day prices are reduced both ways. Huddersfield take more away, Huddersfield get more in.
[* Thursdays/Fridays; Reduce the price if a game is moved to Thursday or Friday. '"
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| As it stands, there are quite a few individuals putting their ideas to the club. This is great.
However, think how much more effective this would be if a group was formed to co_ordinate all these views and then present them to the club.
I was going to be sarcastic, but I'll play it straight.
There is such a group _ the Supporters Association.
We meet regularly with the top brass. However, we are a pitifully small organisation _ especially compared with other clubs. We try to enrol members and get laughed at. We put on events _ for free _ and few attend. We ask for volunteers (to help the club) and very few bother.
I challenge all of you with these great ideas to attend our AGM on the 14th October and join us _ perhaps you will join the committee. Don't like the chairman? Then stand against him.
We have lots of ideas about how to get people more involved but lack the manpower to carry them through.
Volunteer with us and you will be helping the club.
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| Some great ideas Conor- and spot on C and G! Some of those ideas have even been tried via the HGSA. What the club need are easy to implement, cheap ideas and fans to help then happen.
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| Agree there are some great ideas!!
We need to avoid the 'cheap ticket' deals too much though as our regular ST purchases will start to think 'why bother paying £17 a game' when they can just wait to get a ticket for a £5 for the odd game.
I didn't mean to offend C&G, I wasn't aware of this and I would love to come down and be a part of the group. I think there's a few who would like to volunteer / put their ideas forwards but maybe just don't know how?
Everyone says the marketing department don't have enough man power to make it work….well we ARE the man power!! With us behind them how can it fail! :p 
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| Quote Ivor C&G Scarf="Ivor C&G Scarf"As it stands, there are quite a few individuals putting their ideas to the club. This is great.
However, think how much more effective this would be if a group was formed to co_ordinate all these views and then present them to the club.
I was going to be sarcastic, but I'll play it straight.
There is such a group _ the Supporters Association.
We meet regularly with the top brass. However, we are a pitifully small organisation _ especially compared with other clubs. We try to enrol members and get laughed at. We put on events _ for free _ and few attend. We ask for volunteers (to help the club) and very few bother.
I challenge all of you with these great ideas to attend our AGM on the 14th October and join us _ perhaps you will join the committee. Don't like the chairman? Then stand against him.
We have lots of ideas about how to get people more involved but lack the manpower to carry them through.
Volunteer with us and you will be helping the club.'"
Totally agree ....get signed up to the HGSA and let's make things happen !!
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| Quote GIANT DAZ="GIANT DAZ":CLAP:
Totally agree ....get signed up to the HGSA and let's make things happen !!'"
How do we do it please?
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| l pushed HGSA with lvor many times on here in the last pre season l think lvor said we had 105 members, How many today lvor?, l miss a lot of meetings but when l can make it there,s usually about 20 - 30 there same old faces, and l don,t know if they are all members, its a quid for non members, that will put a lot of people off.
Maybe we should just face up to reality, the people of Huddersfield are not that interested, the back office staff arn,t that bothered, we have to wait for the next generation, and hope we still have a good club, sad but get over it.
l,ve said it before, there are some of the most boring, miserable, tight fisted people l have ever met in Huddersfield, this is going to be a very difficuilt job
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| I'd never been into rugby, never really heard much about it. But I started to go to the odd match (first game 2009) with my mates and I became hooked. So I don't want to just give up on it as I think it is possible to get more fans. Target markets are people with young families, what a way to spend some quality time with your son than at a game? Groups of young males who go to the pub on a Sunday - have a pint at the game instead. Just need to get this message across. There's a lot of ideas flying around, but we are missing those new, fresh ideas that could really work with a bit of a push.
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| Giants have over 14k followers on twitter, could be vastly improved upon.. with some initiative and ideas, its an avenue that needs to be used!! not many better ways of spreading the word
conorgiants fan spot on with the renaiming of the offiacial facebook page, its seems broken into two sections at the moment!
8831 likes for the above on facebook - leeds rhinos have 121,000 !!!!! now come on this is a joke, we should be looking at what they do and try replicate it..they are clearly showing the way to do things. i know leeds are a bigger club but still we are poor at this kind of thing, move with the times giants.
the above are the best way of engaging with the younger generations... some where we lack at the giants im afraid.
its not good enough, ken davy needs to set on a new media person!
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| the supporters group is very much still in its infancy and it has done well
think the column in the examiner was a great move and well done for that but sometimes i lose interest in reading it half way down, just comes across abit boring and all about the past/heritage stuff ..which we are all proud of but maybe talk about the prev game/upcoming game etc sure we have ideas on here and plenty of issues/topics?
not wanting to upset anyone just how i feel when reading it sometimes.
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