Club Corner
The Club Corner
by Jim Wallen,
AMA Insider Club Editor
Mike Brink of Arvada Associated
Modelers (Colorado) brings us a great idea about
working with your local hobby store to create
interest and grow membership:
“HobbyTown USA owner Gary Kolm and Justin Mueller,
owner manager, have been staunch supporters of our
club for some time with club donations, club
activities, club newsletter advertising, and several
special sales for AMA members.
“Right in the middle of the aircraft department of
the store stands the popular Real Flight Simulator.
This display is very popular with the customers and
is almost always in use. Gary and Justin have
allowed us to put one of our club information
pamphlet holders on the simulator.
“We use a six-part colored folder
with all of the pertinent information about our club
such as location of the field, time, date and place
of our meetings, training night information, AMA
information, and a lot of other information
requested by people over several years by those that
show an interest in our hobby.”
What is the next project of help and
support from these guys? Gary and Justin are
planning to send all of their employees to a
training night at the field to learn hands on about
flying. Most all of their employees are already
versatile in RC but only in cars, not airplanes.
Now that is what I call support! Does
it work? “As of our last club meeting we had 14 new
members. Although there is no way of telling if that
increase was due entirely to the display, but you
can be sure it does help,” Mike wrote. Q
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