Organization / Club fees

[Awesome Sauce Malone]

$250

We'll also split the cost the costs of tournaments per family. So maybe $200 more at the end of the year for me and mine. Great situation over here. .

 

[uncdrew]

Random barely-related question:

Say you join an org and pay $2000, and included is a hitting coach to go along with strength/conditioning, fielding training, etc. And what if you completely disagree with the hitting philosophy of the hitting coach. What do you do?

Fine question.

To me, that aspect of the team isn't a perk. Now if they'll work within the confines of our chosen pitching and hitting pro, that could work. But in general that model didn't work for me. Probably great for 10U girls coming to travel without their own teaching pros.

 

[uncdrew]

$250

We'll also split the cost the costs of tournaments per family. So maybe $200 more at the end of the year for me and mine. Great situation over here. .

Sounds like it, for sure.

However, how many tournaments does that get you?

 

[CoachKevin]

Wow a wide range. We are an independent team and charge $1,000 for the year, that covers 2 complete uniforms, 2 practice shirts, helmet (special paint), bat bag, 4 Fall Tournaments with 1 out of town showcase, and 8/9 Spring Tournaments 2 of which are out of town. The price does not cover travel expenses.

 

[BT3100]

$3500 ish for fees..
Add lessons, travel costs, rooms, food on the road.. looking at $16k for the year.
That's an 18U national schedule with a family of 4 coming for the ride

 

[texasck1]

$160/Mo and that includes 24/7 access to indoor facility and outdoor field with lights and 2 tournaments a month. Uniforms are separate, but that's about $200.

Of course we fund raise to cover extra tournament cost. Which reminds me, does anyone want a raffle ticket???

 

[bmakj]

Wow a wide range. We are an independent team and charge $1,000 for the year, that covers 2 complete uniforms, 2 practice shirts, helmet (special paint), bat bag, 4 Fall Tournaments with 1 out of town showcase, and 8/9 Spring Tournaments 2 of which are out of town. The price does not cover travel expenses.

how do they do that? is there any indoor winter workoutsm, do you have to pay for any practice time?

 

[Cougars]

This thread and the "finances" thread have mentioned fundraising a lot. What type of things are everyone doing for fundraising? We haven't done any official fundraising in the past, but are considering it this year to keep costs down a bit. My worry is it ends up the parents doing all the buying, and in the end, nobody really saves any money...

Only thing we have done in the past is a super bowl squares just for our team (1/2 to winners, 1/2 to us). Use the money to pay for the little things that pop-up during the season and whatever is left at the end we use towards a team meal during our travel tournament. None of that goes officially through the organization though.

 

[_MIA_]

This thread and the "finances" thread have mentioned fundraising a lot. What type of things are everyone doing for fundraising? We haven't done any official fundraising in the past, but are considering it this year to keep costs down a bit. My worry is it ends up the parents doing all the buying, and in the end, nobody really saves any money...

Only thing we have done in the past is a super bowl squares just for our team (1/2 to winners, 1/2 to us). Use the money to pay for the little things that pop-up during the season and whatever is left at the end we use towards a team meal during our travel tournament. None of that goes officially through the organization though.

The most painfree one (well for everybody but the person who had to set it up) was having restaurants give a percent of their profit for a specific amount of time on a specific day. I think we did it 6 times for a specific restaurant that has multiple locations around here and each girl pocketed about $200

 

[bmakj]

SB squares is a decent one, but be careful, get buy in from parents first. in my experience, this is organized/run by someone who would run one anyway at their job, so they can sell squares easy (no one really cares about the payout really), but for parents with workplaces that already have established "bookies" (ie guys who run SB, NCAA pools, etc, not for $, just because), can be be a tough sell, most people will not enter two. I know these were very hard sell for us, as everyone we tried to sell to was already in a pool, and did not want to do a second one.

restaurant % one can be a decent one, but it also highly depends on how geographically spread out your team is. again, for people from further away, tougher sell.

If you can get donated from a business or individual, raffling off say two tickets plus parking pass for local sports team, on a game that will be fairly in demand, can be a good one too. if tix are donated, other than printing raffle tickets (nominal), 100% profit.

another good one is based on local lottery, players sell 3 digit tickets, if matches local evening Pick 3 drawing anytime in say two month period, they win say $25, Xmas, NYE, other days maybe boost to $50. say $20 a piece, if you sell 240 (10 per player), $4800 in revenue for team, max payout is approx $1500 (so tell everyone minimum tickets to sell is 6, covers max payout), but chances are you pay out much less, unless you sell a lot more tickets, but then you have a lot more revenue. easy sell, geographically nuetral. one year a team knocked out final payment ($200) because of this.

beef and beer can be a good one, can do in conjunction with chinese auction, 50/50.

not certain where you are regionally, but Wawa also does fundraising by selling Hoagie coupons, middle to low margin, but pretty easy sell (we bought 20 ourselves one go around, 10 to keep in car for when we are on the go, 10 we gave to our older child in college). think when oldeer DD did it for a diffferent sport, Wawa got $3 per tick, team could charge what they liked, we charged $5 ( for a 6 inch sub). just dont try to sell around their $5 for a 10 inch sale period every summer.

personally hate can collections, see it a lot around here for both School and club/travel teams. also really hate selling almost any merchandise, possible exception is discount/coupon books/cards, we have never sold these, but we generally buy a couple a year.