Quote: those were the days "The nite last week looked like a very good nite fellas keep up the good work, shame you didnt have it at a bigger venue you would have made more money to go into the flag fund.'"
Not neccesarily
Doing it this way meant that costs/outlay was kept to the absolute minimum!
If we had to pay out for some things that we may have had to at another venue i.e Hiring the room, DJ, possibly food we would have had to either :-
a/ Up the price of the tickets.
b/ Sold maybe 100 more to cover these costs.
PLUS
When you put yourselves in our position you also have to bear a few things in mind.
We organised this at about 6 weeks notice and more importantly, as was stated at the flag meeting when we decided to go for the event, what happens if were sat here in a months time and sold 50 tickets not even covering our costs!
This was a No risk strategy for the 1st event, 130 tickets sold in 36 hours.
Also bear in mind we could have sold at least another 40/50 if we didn't have the SL trophy there as we had to keep a room to 1 side for the photos to be taken etc. In normal circumstances this room can be used and at all future events (Watch this space!
) it will be.
This means we can have around 175 in attendance easily again with no risk as there is no outlay.
