How many times have you sold candy bars, popcorn or magazine subscriptions to raise money for your child's sport's team? Of course, you are the one who usually ends up selling the stuff, and you end up selling to the same friends and neighbors. The truth is that you don't really raise any money because they end up hitting you up for the same goods when their kid has a club or league.
So is there anything new under the sun?
Two things come to mind: first, if your club or league is not online get them there. They should be registering...
One of the fundamental groundrules of running a tournament is to run it on time.
When you host a tournament, for a weekend (or whatever period of time is allotted), you became a steward of the schedules and the time of other people. They make a commitment to participate in your tournament, be on your fields, and for some, travel out of town and pay the cost of hotels and meals. It's important to recognize that we live in a society of busy people with busy schedules. So when people give us their schedules for a weekend, it is important to...