Advertising Sunday Service on Facebook

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So I know I'm not alone in mentioning why pistonheads posted events on Facebook as it was clearly attracting non members to events (goodwood there was around 5+ abarths that I know had not registered from it being on Facebook and I believe prodrive there was also a few who had seen it on Facebook but not registered)

And now pistonheads latest post on Facebook?



Now these events are already oversubscribed by genuine members, and members who don't post just attend events. So why do you need to encourage others to sign up to attend when you can't fit all us genuine members into events?

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lucido grigio said:

They're asking for 3 or 4 bodies to help with parking for this Sunday.

How about a team at the entrance to control selfie stick kids ?

Next SS I attend I'm going to wear a..

I'm sure this was also discussed last year or was it the beginning of this year? Certainly in years gone by there was a whole team of staff at the gate to pass biscuits too. These days you're lucky if there's 1 so I haven't bothered.

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Steve Barrett said:

15 people booked in the top 500 that say they've booked track time and around the same who "might"....

The annoying thing for me is the list goes up around 2pm, I leave to go to work at 2.15pm and don't get there to my PC until around 4pm so if the list is up later I miss out which is annoying (with Prodrive I had to keep stopping in a layby to check my phone on the way in)


Steve

Sadly though the timings will never suit everyone's circumstances. You put it at 9am you exclude the night shift workers, 12pm you exclude Dave because that's when he always goes to the loo, 5pm Roger because he's got latin dance class and so on.

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Jack Mansfield said:

Hi All,

Sorry about the slow response!

And I think you all may be right... We obviously want to expand/show off our events, and gain new members, we'd be silly not to! But, as already mentioned, advertising an oversubscribed small (in the general scale of things) event will attract non-members, which isn't what we want.

The obvious solution to this would be to have thousands of spaces, but thats not possible

We'll have a re-think of how we do this.

Jack

Thank you for the reply.

As the poster above has mentioned, publicise the event after it's happened (which you already do on the website)

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xjay1337 said:

To be honest I'm not sure on PH's interpretation but, in the case of Prodrive, there may have only been space for 250 cars but people are (and should be, IMHO), free to WALK to the event (perhaps they work on the business estate or have parked elsewhere) without having to get permission.

Regarding posting the events on Facebook, I agree - It's stupid - As above, post up retrospectively. Don't advertise them.

Also, regarding posting up dates/times for events, defo a set time needs to be laid out, the time will never suit everyone, but at least we know, say 3pm. That's a pretty good time for most people most of the time.

I disagree. If I was a venue offering my facility by setting a maximum number of vehicles I can potentially work out an average of people coming to the event and I wouldn't be wanting people walking through the gates.

If It's the case that if we don't make the list then we can walk in you could have hundreds of people extra attend (an extreme I know)