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Chapter 8 Marketing and Membership

DOI: 10.23912/9781911635062-3973

ISBN: 9781911635062

Published: November 2018

Component type: chapter

Published in: Club Management

Parent DOI: 10.23912/9781911396796-3845

10.23912/9781911635062-3973

Abstract

Students will often hear that membership is the lifeblood of clubs. This simply means that without members, clubs would cease to exist. This is true for both not-for-profit and for-profit clubs. The focus of this chapter is on membership, that is, who are the members and why do they join; and marketing, that is club activities directed at retaining existing members and recruiting prospective members. The reason that we are combining a discussion of marketing with one of membership, is because it is hard to separate the two functions in clubs. When we use the word ‘marketing’, we are referring to marketing to members, either current or prospective. At one time, marketing was not within managers’ lexicon. However, as we have alluded to several times, clubs must be much more outwardly focused now than they were a generation ago. We will talk more about marketing, but let’s first examine why members join clubs.

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  • Clayton Barrows, University of New Hampshire (Author)
  • Michael Robinson, Robinson Hospitality Consulting (Author)

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  • Clayton Barrows, University of New Hampshire (Author)
  • Michael Robinson, Robinson Hospitality Consulting (Author)

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Barrows & Robinson, 2018

Barrows, C. & Robinson, M. (2018) "Chapter 8 Marketing and Membership" In: Barrows, C. & Robinson, M. (ed) . Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/9781911635062-3973

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Knutson, B. (2001). Mature club members; Are they a homogeneous or heterogeneous market? Journal of Hospitality and Leisure Marketing, 9(1/2), 35 – 51.

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Storytellers, https://blog.storytellermn.com/ccm/outsiders-perspective-private-club-marketing

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