Membership idea

[whitito 187]

I read with interest a few years ago NHL hockey teams having their players hand deliver season tickets.

I thought this would be a great idea to incorporate with us. Perhaps the longest continual member or newest would have a player drop off the passes.

I would suggest after one visit they would be Dees for life. This would secure our next generation of supporters and provide us with some good news stories.

Thoughts?

[Sir Why You Little 37,165]

What about members of Land doing the delivery...that could be worth a TV show!!!

[olisik 4,060]

40,000 member is alot to personally hand out. with about 40 players on our list thats 1000 each.

Would take each player a good few weeks to hand out 1000 memberships each. If they can manage 50 a day it ll take our whole list 3 weeks to pass these out.

I would prefer them to spend the 3 weeks running laps and pumping weights to be honest.

[darkhorse72 1,925]

great idea but maybe limit it to members of over 20 years of continuous membership, then every decade of membership as a celebration.

You could even use retired stars for it.

[whitito 187]

I was only meaning a select few. Maybe 100 all up. Roughly 2 per player. The impact on a kid would be worth it's weight in gold.

[Bossdog 2,002]

40,000 member is alot to personally hand out. with about 40 players on our list thats 1000 each.

Would take each player a good few weeks to hand out 1000 memberships each. If they can manage 50 a day it ll take our whole list 3 weeks to pass these out.

I would prefer them to spend the 3 weeks running laps and pumping weights to be honest.

Maybe they can run to each place.....kill two birds with one stone.....

[hardtack 10,637]

Maybe they can run to each place.....kill two birds with one stone.....

Yes, and form a relay for those of us living interstate or in country Victoria.

[stuie 7,374]

I have a membership idea.... We should start winning games, maybe even a premiership, then we'd get heaps of members on board.

[whitito 187]

I have a membership idea.... We should start winning games, maybe even a premiership, then we'd get heaps of members on board.

Like the Roos did from their success in the 90s???

We can't win games in the preseason but we can win the hearts and minds of the kids.

Edited September 12, 2012 by whitito

[dee-luded 2,959]

40,000 member is alot to personally hand out. with about 40 players on our list thats 1000 each.

Would take each player a good few weeks to hand out 1000 memberships each. If they can manage 50 a day it ll take our whole list 3 weeks to pass these out.

I would prefer them to spend the 3 weeks running laps and pumping weights to be honest.

Good, make them run to deliver the preseason booked memberships. Pre Xmas only.

Each could have they're suburbs to deliver to.

[mdemonski2 403]

Good on you for thinking of innovative membership promos?

I think with a few qualifiers eg: focus on kids memberships or new members or x number of years service, so it not too onerous would be a great idea. And yes you could make it a bit of pr value for the club.

Good suggestion and one that should be filtered through to the club. Not sure how though?

[ILLDieADemon 804]

Does anyone form the club actually read this web site?

Maybe you should bring it up to the board at there next meeting?

[whitito 187]

Might shoot the email through to the club tomorrow.

[The Big Ticket 94]

Does anyone form the club actually read this web site?

Maybe you should bring it up to the board at there next meeting?

Schwabby did but I would think he would've been well and truly put off by now.

[Mallee Bull 97]

It might be a worth while exercise for the established players to deliver memberships in person to NEW members. But even then it might prove to be too much.

[Wadda We Sing 10,685]

Good, make them run to deliver the preseason booked memberships. Pre Xmas only.

Each could have they're suburbs to deliver to.

The midfield could probably cover more suburbs......

[Striker475 696]

Don't mind it...how I'd do it.

- Make it the 10 most popular players for the kids. Howe, Clark, Jones, Trengove, Grimes, Watts, Frawley, Davey. Blease would be a contender, so would Rivers probably. Two or three each for a kid in the 6-9 age range - they're just old enough to truly get what footy is. You have to put an age if you're signing up the kids yes parents among us? This will change as the 'popular' players change.

- For the reward ones, make it a legend, but a relevant one initially to your initial signup. For a ten-year of today it could be Robbo, for example, or Ox. 20-year could be Lyon, 30-year could be Robbie...that sort of thing. Then you can swing things around, but the older legends won't do ones for guys who weren't signed up when they were playing - means that they don't do as many long-term (being older and all that).

[cowboy_from_hell 2,390]

Do they still do the Dob in a demon? If so I'm going to dob in Wojo from Geelong and Jack Viney can personally drop off his membership to him and drop off a couple of right hooks on the way out.

[Barney Rubble 1,576]

Good Idea only if they deliver the mail by foot to keep their fitness up to speed.

[dee-luded 2,959]

The midfield could probably cover more suburbs......

Yep And that could be a bout 13 of the starting 18 who also need more miles.

[dee-luded 2,959]

Don't mind it...how I'd do it.

- Make it the 10 most popular players for the kids. Howe, Clark, Jones, Trengove, Grimes, Watts, Frawley, Davey. Blease would be a contender, so would Rivers probably. Two or three each for a kid in the 6-9 age range - they're just old enough to truly get what footy is. You have to put an age if you're signing up the kids yes parents among us? This will change as the 'popular' players change.

- For the reward ones, make it a legend, but a relevant one initially to your initial signup. For a ten-year of today it could be Robbo, for example, or Ox. 20-year could be Lyon, 30-year could be Robbie...that sort of thing. Then you can swing things around, but the older legends won't do ones for guys who weren't signed up when they were playing - means that they don't do as many long-term (being older and all that).

Not bad...

and also it could be that players from they're 'home region' could deliver there.

[ILLDieADemon 804]

Schwabby did but I would think he would've been well and truly put off by now.

Did he?

What was his alias.

3 more years.

[ILLDieADemon 804]

Might shoot the email through to the club tomorrow.

Sweet, might get Luke Tapscott knocking at my door soon with a golden membership.

All do respect I do under stand what your saying, MFC don't go far enough to get new members.

Look at the Hawks last season they had a comp on where if you get the golden membership you win something. Or some [censored] like that.

What did we get, a stupid video at Christmas time from all the players on the web site singing all I want for Christmas it 40000 members.

Wow that got me signing up quick smart

[45HG 1,559]

All do respect I do under stand what your saying

Wow.

[low flying Robbo 979]

Maybe they can run to each place.....kill two birds with one stone.....

And put the tickets in bags with heavy weights...