Exchange tickets can be great for members wanting access to more fishing venues without the additional cost, providing a real added bonus to membership while helping build stronger relationships between clubs. Exchange tickets can also be a burden added to a committee’s ongoing list of duties, providing logistical challenges and more work for club volunteers.[…]
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Clubmate vs Doing It Yourself: How to Modernise Your Angling Club We speak to hundreds of fishing clubs every week and one thing that we see frequently is committees that do everything themselves. Running the club, collecting payments and increasing revenue are all important responsibilities and many clubs are still using multiple systems for each[…]
Personalise your Clubmate member app and provide speedy, secure access to venue maps, restrict visibility to gate codes, help promote local tackle shops and so much more. When your members log in to their Clubmate profile, they’re shown a series of tiles that offer different functionality when clicked, such as booking a day ticket, renewing[…]
Anglers will often want to see what the venue is like before committing to join a club for the season or even before buying a day or guest ticket. Having great quality photos on your club website is a fantastic way to stand out amongst the crowd and showcase what your waters have to offer.[…]
Automation is part of our everyday lives, from self-service checkouts in the supermarket to satellite navigation whilst we drive. When 42% of leaders agree that workflow automation speeds up the completion of repetitive tasks, it’s no surprise that some angling clubs are beginning to recognise its importance. On paper, implementing automation at your angling club[…]
Is your Fishing Club run on a system that was never designed to run a Fishing Club? If you’re a typical Fishing club, you’re probably using an Excel spreadsheet to manage your members, to store their personal details, record whether they’ve paid or not and to keep an overview of all things membership. It seems[…]
Let’s talk about newsletters. If you’re looking to keep your members engaged on a regular basis, keep them informed of what’s going on at the club and help build a sense of belonging, then sending out a monthly email newsletter is a great place to start. E-newsletters have a much higher engagement rate than other[…]
Renewal cycles: Fixed dates vs 12-month memberships We’re entering the time of year where fishing clubs across the country are gearing up for what can be an incredibly admin-intensive period of time for their volunteers – membership renewals. Getting members to fill in their renewal paperwork, send in their cash or cheques, logging everyone that’s renewed[…]
Happy New Year! We can hardly believe it’s 2021 already. 2020 was certainly a challenging year for us all, so we wanted to take this opportunity to thank our readers for all of your support over the past year. It truly means the world! If you’re new around here, welcome! Clubmate is a club management[…]
Clubmate vs PayPal: Which is right for your fishing club? Online payments allow anglers to pay membership fees, purchase day and guest tickets and make donations securely from any device at any time. If a fishing club decides to start taking payments online, they often look to something like PayPal as their payment provider because[…]