NEW CONTEST - Negotiating

[Anthony Romano]

Using home grown trophies, all donated prizes, lunch for the pilots, judges 
and workers we were basically breakeven.
The profit was derived from the raffle of the  AIRTRONICS (shameless plug) 
radio system.

Anthony






>From: mrstev0922 at aol.com
>Reply-To: discussion at nsrca.org
>To: discussion at nsrca.org
>Subject: Re: NEW CONTEST - Negotiating
>Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:12:34 EDT
>
>Eric,...
>
>I've often thought about trying to negotiate and persuade my club to allow 
>a
>Pattern Primer.  Unfortunately my club's major objective is to make money,
>and the bottom line is how much money can they expect in their treasury at
>the end of the Contest/Event.
>
>My question to you, and to anyone else who has run a contest or primer, is
>there a rule of thumb for expenses versus income for one of these events??
>Any general guidelines for how many contestants are needed for a break even
>scenario??  I realize a lot of this has to do with actual expenses and 
>costs
>of trophies and such, but if anybody would care to chime in with their
>experiences in this matter it would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>
>Sincerely,
>Steve Teerlinck
>Monson, Massachusetts
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