Comments on: Why Do Some Clubs Fail?

By: TJones

TJones — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:16:17 +0000

There are other uses of club spaces than for large social gatherings. My club space contains a maze, refined over several trial runs with friends, who I then ‘promote’ in the club so that they can bring in others friends to have a go. I’ve another maze developing in a personal space that I hope to transfer to the club space soon!

By: riffraffse7en

riffraffse7en — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:59:53 +0000

Another reason clubs might fail is the inability to have an adequate leadership system. I ran a weekly open mic on home for poets and musicians the roster rotated constantly -so I was adding and deleting constantly -plus dealing with internal complaints about other parties (which were relatively few as most of the were mature people) plus I would recruit new members as either audience or participant -- on a weekly basis it took is toll on me- I tried having a sub leader but very few would show up when I personally was not there. It is easy to get burnt out if the responsibility is not shared with other people… A club has to me self-motivating by an entire group of people -not just one person. There were so many other things I wished to pursue on home and running the club became a full time job- I am thinking about starting it up again… But I will need adequate help with leadership to do this -so if I go on vacation the thing doesn’t fall apart.

Thank you for yor insights Burbie -this is a great subject.

By: KrazyFace

KrazyFace — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:22:10 +0000

Some good advice here Burbie. I have a clubhouse in NA but wasn’t even considering what (if any) it’s purpose should be. In fact, I kinda bought it coz it was the closest you could get to a nightclub in Home at the time, that didnt require my friends to spend money to access. Oh, and also as a small workaround that people could change clothes while all in a private space.

I dont think anyone goes there, I know it’s been months since even I visited lol. If I thought of anything I’d like to do with it though then at least it’s there should I need it.