HotShotRC Offroad Racing Wednesday Nights Survey
01-29-2014 | 04:54 PM
#64
Let me help all you guys out with this. Off road guys go by HS and give Brad $ 250.00 each. Problem solved ! Track will be in . Now who's going to step!!!!! We all want whats best for HS Right I just solved the Problem.
01-29-2014 | 05:00 PM
#65
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 2,454
From: Kennesaw, GA
01-29-2014 | 05:07 PM
#66
Same could be said about onroad racers, you want to keep the track go give brad money to keep it so he can stay open. When are we going to stop arguing and just understand it's business, no matter the decision. We all are in this hobby together, some like getting dirty and others carpet burn. Whatever you fix is, arguing gets us nowhere.
BACK ON TOPIC: I might be able to make a Wednesday here or there, but think maybe random Sunday races would be more lucrative due to most people not working on Sundays as well as opposite of most other tracks. I still think a Wednesday night may help some, but as Danny said if you race 3x a week the people will be spread out and turnouts smaller. If you go to a larger track you could also separate days for 1/10 and 1/8 every so often to accommodate pitting and/or amount of time at the track so people don't get home at 2-3 am type of thing. That's just a big "if" and only ideas that are being tossed out there.
BACK ON TOPIC: I might be able to make a Wednesday here or there, but think maybe random Sunday races would be more lucrative due to most people not working on Sundays as well as opposite of most other tracks. I still think a Wednesday night may help some, but as Danny said if you race 3x a week the people will be spread out and turnouts smaller. If you go to a larger track you could also separate days for 1/10 and 1/8 every so often to accommodate pitting and/or amount of time at the track so people don't get home at 2-3 am type of thing. That's just a big "if" and only ideas that are being tossed out there.
01-29-2014 | 05:17 PM
#67
Tech Master
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Posts: 1,859
From: Powder Springs, GA
Let me help all you guys out with this. Off road guys go by HS and give Brad $ 250.00 each. Problem solved ! Track will be in . Now who's going to step!!!!! We all want whats best for HS Right I just solved the Problem.
Just wait till Brad gives us the go ahead to make the track huge, you will see how loyal and hard working our GA off-road scene is!
Wish I could have been there more.
01-30-2014 | 08:11 AM
#71
Tech Master
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 1,799
From: DOUGLASVILLE GA.
01-30-2014 | 08:22 AM
#72
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 2,454
From: Kennesaw, GA
01-30-2014 | 09:26 AM
#73
If you guys really wanted to help Brad, give him solid input not build this and we promise we will come... Only time will tell 1 year from now if he has no on-road track and the off-road guys are still showing up to practice during the week and 15-30 entries are still happening on Friday and Saturday.
Ideas for a business:
I would look at things like hiring a full time employee that is great at repairs, sales and can manage the shop properly keeping track of inventory cycle counts, putting dead stock products on sale to get your cost out of to help cash flow or credit accounts with vendors.
-Having a solid repair center at hotshots for all the people that do not like to work on there own product or want to pay to have soldering done, assemblies, rentals. This is something the internet does not have and my business does really well with. Just having a face to face person helping you with labor needs or guidance and picking out the right products for your venture.
-Design repair tickets forms to fill out for checking in repairs so you can schedule them in a google calendar or excel doc with a promised eta.
-Design Labor charts and have them posted behind front counter for a la cart items as well as labor per hour.
-Create special order forms so when a customer needs to order an item you take a half down deposit write up a special order form and tell the customer you place orders every Monday morning and it will be in by 5 days from that monday. If it's not in stock call the customer to let them know.
-I have personally spent over $4k at hotshots over the last few years. Unfortunately myself and many others turned to the internet(which I hate owning a brick and mortar retail business) because we would order items from HS and they would not come in for weeks.
-Maybe a big dirt track will be more profitable but with that there is more expenses. Proper watering, calcium, routine maintenance and labor cost to clean the store since it seems all the on-road guys where there mopping/sweeping and wiping down counters last week.
-use a point if sale software that you have all inventory in and you can set min/max qty. on hand needs and it will populate weekly orders for items that are selling.
-I'd bet there is over 5k in inventory that needs to be sold at cost because it is dead stock and has not turned in over 120days. $5k that can be use to better the future business of Hotshots
Sorry for the rant but I've never heard of a revenue generating track Chris. I know it may be bringing in more entries than on-road currently which is great but on-road was like that when it first opened too. Do you see taking out the on-road track doubling the entries to 60 on a Saturday in July or are those other 30 people still going to be at loganville, hcrcr, dalton etc... When it's warm and nice out because they may run nitro and electric... This is a business decision and I support Brad and Hotshots whatever his decision may be. I run off-Road and it's not the end of my world if the on-road track gets torn down. I just hate to see the on-road track torn down, the off road track enlarged and a year from now the turnouts are low and it goes under because no real profitable decisions were made to help grow the BUSINESS...
And I'm done...
01-30-2014 | 09:32 AM
#74
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 2,454
From: Kennesaw, GA
A profitable business in my eyes is how it sounds a business not a hobby shop... I'd like to see the ROI from the off-road track for its first months in opening dirt vs. The original on-road track... Where does everyone see the money coming in from, entry fees? That is not much money wether it's On-road or Off after you factor in overhead, utilities & assets... I have never seen a track that generates enough revenue to stay in business without a properly run hobby shop attached.
If you guys really wanted to help Brad, give him solid input not build this and we promise we will come... Only time will tell 1 year from now if he has no on-road track and the off-road guys are still showing up to practice during the week and 15-30 entries are still happening on Friday and Saturday.
Ideas for a business:
I would look at things like hiring a full time employee that is great at repairs, sales and can manage the shop properly keeping track of inventory cycle counts, putting dead stock products on sale to get your cost out of to help cash flow or credit accounts with vendors.
-Having a solid repair center at hotshots for all the people that do not like to work on there own product or want to pay to have soldering done, assemblies, rentals. This is something the internet does not have and my business does really well with. Just having a face to face person helping you with labor needs or guidance and picking out the right products for your venture.
-Design repair tickets forms to fill out for checking in repairs so you can schedule them in a google calendar or excel doc with a promised eta.
-Design Labor charts and have them posted behind front counter for a la cart items as well as labor per hour.
-Create special order forms so when a customer needs to order an item you take a half down deposit write up a special order form and tell the customer you place orders every Monday morning and it will be in by 5 days from that monday. If it's not in stock call the customer to let them know.
-I have personally spent over $4k at hotshots over the last few years. Unfortunately myself and many others turned to the internet(which I hate owning a brick and mortar retail business) because we would order items from HS and they would not come in for weeks.
-Maybe a big dirt track will be more profitable but with that there is more expenses. Proper watering, calcium, routine maintenance and labor cost to clean the store since it seems all the on-road guys where there mopping/sweeping and wiping down counters last week.
-use a point if sale software that you have all inventory in and you can set min/max qty. on hand needs and it will populate weekly orders for items that are selling.
-I'd bet there is over 5k in inventory that needs to be sold at cost because it is dead stock and has not turned in over 120days. $5k that can be use to better the future business of Hotshots
Sorry for the rant but I've never heard of a revenue generating track Chris. I know it may be bringing in more entries than on-road currently which is great but on-road was like that when it first opened too. Do you see taking out the on-road track doubling the entries to 60 on a Saturday in July or are those other 30 people still going to be at loganville, hcrcr, dalton etc... When it's warm and nice out because they may run nitro and electric... This is a business decision and I support Brad and Hotshots whatever his decision may be. I run off-Road and it's not the end of my world if the on-road track gets torn down. I just hate to see the on-road track torn down, the off road track enlarged and a year from now the turnouts are low and it goes under because no real profitable decisions were made to help grow the BUSINESS...
And I'm done...
If you guys really wanted to help Brad, give him solid input not build this and we promise we will come... Only time will tell 1 year from now if he has no on-road track and the off-road guys are still showing up to practice during the week and 15-30 entries are still happening on Friday and Saturday.
Ideas for a business:
I would look at things like hiring a full time employee that is great at repairs, sales and can manage the shop properly keeping track of inventory cycle counts, putting dead stock products on sale to get your cost out of to help cash flow or credit accounts with vendors.
-Having a solid repair center at hotshots for all the people that do not like to work on there own product or want to pay to have soldering done, assemblies, rentals. This is something the internet does not have and my business does really well with. Just having a face to face person helping you with labor needs or guidance and picking out the right products for your venture.
-Design repair tickets forms to fill out for checking in repairs so you can schedule them in a google calendar or excel doc with a promised eta.
-Design Labor charts and have them posted behind front counter for a la cart items as well as labor per hour.
-Create special order forms so when a customer needs to order an item you take a half down deposit write up a special order form and tell the customer you place orders every Monday morning and it will be in by 5 days from that monday. If it's not in stock call the customer to let them know.
-I have personally spent over $4k at hotshots over the last few years. Unfortunately myself and many others turned to the internet(which I hate owning a brick and mortar retail business) because we would order items from HS and they would not come in for weeks.
-Maybe a big dirt track will be more profitable but with that there is more expenses. Proper watering, calcium, routine maintenance and labor cost to clean the store since it seems all the on-road guys where there mopping/sweeping and wiping down counters last week.
-use a point if sale software that you have all inventory in and you can set min/max qty. on hand needs and it will populate weekly orders for items that are selling.
-I'd bet there is over 5k in inventory that needs to be sold at cost because it is dead stock and has not turned in over 120days. $5k that can be use to better the future business of Hotshots
Sorry for the rant but I've never heard of a revenue generating track Chris. I know it may be bringing in more entries than on-road currently which is great but on-road was like that when it first opened too. Do you see taking out the on-road track doubling the entries to 60 on a Saturday in July or are those other 30 people still going to be at loganville, hcrcr, dalton etc... When it's warm and nice out because they may run nitro and electric... This is a business decision and I support Brad and Hotshots whatever his decision may be. I run off-Road and it's not the end of my world if the on-road track gets torn down. I just hate to see the on-road track torn down, the off road track enlarged and a year from now the turnouts are low and it goes under because no real profitable decisions were made to help grow the BUSINESS...
And I'm done...
01-30-2014 | 09:48 AM
#75
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 4,596
From: East Atl Metro Area
A profitable business in my eyes is how it sounds a business not a hobby shop... I'd like to see the ROI from the off-road track for its first months in opening dirt vs. The original on-road track... Where does everyone see the money coming in from, entry fees? That is not much money wether it's On-road or Off after you factor in overhead, utilities & assets... I have never seen a track that generates enough revenue to stay in business without a properly run hobby shop attached.
If you guys really wanted to help Brad, give him solid input not build this and we promise we will come... Only time will tell 1 year from now if he has no on-road track and the off-road guys are still showing up to practice during the week and 15-30 entries are still happening on Friday and Saturday.
Ideas for a business:
I would look at things like hiring a full time employee that is great at repairs, sales and can manage the shop properly keeping track of inventory cycle counts, putting dead stock products on sale to get your cost out of to help cash flow or credit accounts with vendors.
-Having a solid repair center at hotshots for all the people that do not like to work on there own product or want to pay to have soldering done, assemblies, rentals. This is something the internet does not have and my business does really well with. Just having a face to face person helping you with labor needs or guidance and picking out the right products for your venture.
-Design repair tickets forms to fill out for checking in repairs so you can schedule them in a google calendar or excel doc with a promised eta.
-Design Labor charts and have them posted behind front counter for a la cart items as well as labor per hour.
-Create special order forms so when a customer needs to order an item you take a half down deposit write up a special order form and tell the customer you place orders every Monday morning and it will be in by 5 days from that monday. If it's not in stock call the customer to let them know.
-I have personally spent over $4k at hotshots over the last few years. Unfortunately myself and many others turned to the internet(which I hate owning a brick and mortar retail business) because we would order items from HS and they would not come in for weeks.
-Maybe a big dirt track will be more profitable but with that there is more expenses. Proper watering, calcium, routine maintenance and labor cost to clean the store since it seems all the on-road guys where there mopping/sweeping and wiping down counters last week.
-use a point if sale software that you have all inventory in and you can set min/max qty. on hand needs and it will populate weekly orders for items that are selling.
-I'd bet there is over 5k in inventory that needs to be sold at cost because it is dead stock and has not turned in over 120days. $5k that can be use to better the future business of Hotshots
Sorry for the rant but I've never heard of a revenue generating track Chris. I know it may be bringing in more entries than on-road currently which is great but on-road was like that when it first opened too. Do you see taking out the on-road track doubling the entries to 60 on a Saturday in July or are those other 30 people still going to be at loganville, hcrcr, dalton etc... When it's warm and nice out because they may run nitro and electric... This is a business decision and I support Brad and Hotshots whatever his decision may be. I run off-Road and it's not the end of my world if the on-road track gets torn down. I just hate to see the on-road track torn down, the off road track enlarged and a year from now the turnouts are low and it goes under because no real profitable decisions were made to help grow the BUSINESS...
And I'm done...
If you guys really wanted to help Brad, give him solid input not build this and we promise we will come... Only time will tell 1 year from now if he has no on-road track and the off-road guys are still showing up to practice during the week and 15-30 entries are still happening on Friday and Saturday.
Ideas for a business:
I would look at things like hiring a full time employee that is great at repairs, sales and can manage the shop properly keeping track of inventory cycle counts, putting dead stock products on sale to get your cost out of to help cash flow or credit accounts with vendors.
-Having a solid repair center at hotshots for all the people that do not like to work on there own product or want to pay to have soldering done, assemblies, rentals. This is something the internet does not have and my business does really well with. Just having a face to face person helping you with labor needs or guidance and picking out the right products for your venture.
-Design repair tickets forms to fill out for checking in repairs so you can schedule them in a google calendar or excel doc with a promised eta.
-Design Labor charts and have them posted behind front counter for a la cart items as well as labor per hour.
-Create special order forms so when a customer needs to order an item you take a half down deposit write up a special order form and tell the customer you place orders every Monday morning and it will be in by 5 days from that monday. If it's not in stock call the customer to let them know.
-I have personally spent over $4k at hotshots over the last few years. Unfortunately myself and many others turned to the internet(which I hate owning a brick and mortar retail business) because we would order items from HS and they would not come in for weeks.
-Maybe a big dirt track will be more profitable but with that there is more expenses. Proper watering, calcium, routine maintenance and labor cost to clean the store since it seems all the on-road guys where there mopping/sweeping and wiping down counters last week.
-use a point if sale software that you have all inventory in and you can set min/max qty. on hand needs and it will populate weekly orders for items that are selling.
-I'd bet there is over 5k in inventory that needs to be sold at cost because it is dead stock and has not turned in over 120days. $5k that can be use to better the future business of Hotshots
Sorry for the rant but I've never heard of a revenue generating track Chris. I know it may be bringing in more entries than on-road currently which is great but on-road was like that when it first opened too. Do you see taking out the on-road track doubling the entries to 60 on a Saturday in July or are those other 30 people still going to be at loganville, hcrcr, dalton etc... When it's warm and nice out because they may run nitro and electric... This is a business decision and I support Brad and Hotshots whatever his decision may be. I run off-Road and it's not the end of my world if the on-road track gets torn down. I just hate to see the on-road track torn down, the off road track enlarged and a year from now the turnouts are low and it goes under because no real profitable decisions were made to help grow the BUSINESS...
And I'm done...