Each month, bowling center proprietors discover profitable ways of generating business or attracting attention to their centers. This section of BCMMAG.COM will highlight a new idea every month.
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Technology is rapidly changing the way industries—including bowling—will be serving its customers. One of the most significant emerging trends is the self-service kiosk. |
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With baseball season around the corner, consider working in a bowling and minor league baseball promotion this year. |
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The PBA Experience League offers a new way for proprietors to educate and involve bowling center patrons. |
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Redemption games are a key to running a successful family entertainment center. A number of vendors, including Frank Seninsky, have joined forces to establish Foundations Entertainment University which offers a comprehensive three-day educational workshop covering all aspects of planning, designing, developing and operating a location based entertainment business. |
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This time of the year is an ideal time to attract some new leagues to your center. And many centers across the country are finding the hospitality industry to be a lucrative market. |
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Bowling centers interested in working with their neighborhood parks and recreation departments can check with the USBC office to see if interest in bowling has been expressed by program directors in their market. |
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Food and beverage packages are highly desirable menu items, proprietors are learning this season. So much so, that some bowling center menus have adopted a McDonald's approach to menu presentation. |
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Many league bowlers cite poor customer service as a reason for leaving one league, and joining another. But that doesn't have to be the case. |
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The inside of a bowling center sometimes isn't the only thing that needs modernization. Kris Leonhardt of Rose Bowl Lanes in Marshfield, Wis., discovered that when a simple website redesign boosted revenue recently. |
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Consider a service in which people who regularly bowl and rent shoes complete a database card that includes their shoe size on it. |
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