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Preparing for Your Fan Club’s Offseason

By Nathan Hirsch & Symon Perriman We hope you have already learned a lot from FanWide’s Guide to Starting and Growing a Fan Club in your Sports Bar. You should now have all the best practices you need to pick your teams, promote your events, host amazing game watch parties throughout the season. Next, we’ll give you some post-event guidance to engage your guests once the season ends. Keep in Touch with Fan Club Leaders Throughout the season you should have already been asking for regular feedback from attendees about how to make their events better. Make sure you ask again once the season is over so you can address any issues which could prevent the group from returning next year. Agree to stay in touch with the organizers and club leaders, and send them a message every few months [...]

By |2022-06-07T13:07:33-04:00July 25th, 2019|Sports Bar Management|0 Comments
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Beta Test Our New ‘Q Score’ Program

When SportsTV Guide started in 2003, we delivered 90% of our service via fax machine. That number has flipped to under 3% of our subscribers in the intervening 15+ years. The technology we employ today has profoundly changed the quality and reliability of our product and we see a bright future in further leveraging technology to improve our product and its value. To that end, we are ecstatic to inform you all about a beta test we are undertaking to validate a new feature. We are inviting current STVG subscribers to help us vet our new Q Score program that will rate game quality for all events listed on your SportsTV Guide. The Q Score will help sports bar operators and managers identify the best matchups and games for their establishment to show. If you want to see this powerful [...]

By |2022-06-07T13:09:14-04:00July 22nd, 2019|Sports Bar Management, Sports Bar Technology, Sports TV News|0 Comments
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Host the Ultimate Game Watch Party for Your Fan Club

By Nathan Hirsch & Symon Perriman It’s the big day --  GAMEDAY!!! You’ve done all of this hard work to find an ideal team and grow their local fan club chapter. Now you need to host those fans coming to cheer on their team and give them a stadium-like experience that will keep them coming back for more. Here’s how to do that from FanWide’s Guide to Starting and Growing a Fan Club in your Sports Bar. Do a Systems Check The most important thing is making sure that everyone can enjoy the game, so feature it on the best TVs and you must include audible sound. Test the channel in advance, especially if you are streaming the game over the Internet. If the Internet quality is questionable, switch off any non-essential Wi-Fi so that the public is not consuming [...]

By |2022-06-07T13:24:15-04:00July 22nd, 2019|Guest Management, Sports Bar Management|0 Comments
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How to Start a New Fan Club Chapter at Your Sports Bar

By Nathan Hirsch & Symon Perriman If you have read our last two posts in FanWide’s Guide to Starting and Growing a Fan Club in your Sports Bar then you are ready for the big moment -- officially creating or finding your local fan club. You’ve picked the best league and identified a few target teams. But just before you just directly ask the fan club chapter to host their events at your bar, we want to coach you up on the different organizational structures for collegiate alumni associations and professional sports fan clubs to help you increase your chances of landing your first fan community. Finding a College Sports Fan Club If you want to focus on college teams, you will want to seek the approval from the alumni association to be an officially sanctioned event. You can be [...]

By |2022-06-07T13:29:10-04:00July 15th, 2019|Guest Management, Sports Bar Management|0 Comments
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Finding the Right Team for Your Sports Bar

By Nathan Hirsch & Symon Perriman Welcome back to our second installment in FanWide’s Guide to Starting and Growing a Fan Club in your Sports Bar. Now that you have picked the best sports league to target for the upcoming season, the next step is finding the right sports team for your sports bar. Sure, you are saying “I already have one in mind that I really want.” But just in case, we want to give you a checklist to make sure that it really is the right fit for your bar. Which Sports Fan Clubs Need a Home? First, find those untapped fan club opportunities in your city. Don’t be the hundredth bar to host the city’s local team (unless it is for the playoffs or a championship, then that’s understandable) beit-mirkahat.com. FanWide.com can help you see which fan [...]

By |2022-06-07T13:30:12-04:00July 11th, 2019|Guest Management, Sports Bar Management|0 Comments
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The Major Audience Sports Bars are Missing

Part One: Introduction By Nick Vener and Andrew Jaffee Our mission at the SportsTV Guide is to help you stay in front of trends in our industry and facilitate you leveraging those trends for your business. That is why we are embarking on a comprehensive review of where the future of sports is heading with a series focused on eSports. This series is focused on the why, how, what and when of eSports for restaurants and bars. This post will focus specifically on why you need to take eSports seriously and the implications for your operation, especially for sports-themed operators. Why are eSports Essential to Have in Your Restaurant? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf3gfuGIn1w Great question! Let’s start with who makes up the eSports gaming community (i.e., players and fans) who you want to attract by embracing eSports in your sports marketing efforts. The [...]

By |2022-06-07T13:35:05-04:00July 1st, 2019|Alternate Sports Programming, Sports Bar Management, Sports Bar Marketing|0 Comments
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4 Stats for Creating the Perfect Gameday Menu

Sponsored by RO*TEL With your gameday menu in full swing, you’ll want to stay on top of emerging trends and customer preferences in order to adapt to changing tastes. Conversations with your guests are vital in this regard, but only as a microcosm. To get ahead of the curve, you’ll want to take a look at things on a larger scale. Analyzing statistics from outside your doors can clue you into the next big thing in the industry before it even hits your area. Consider it a way to buy in on the ground floor. If you could hop in a time machine and go back to 2005 to be the first restaurant in your city to put sriracha on your menu, you’d take that kind of buzz in a heartbeat. Sadly, you can’t do that, but with market research [...]

By |2022-06-07T13:40:48-04:00March 29th, 2019|Sports Bar Management, Sports Bar Marketing|0 Comments
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How to Successfully Execute Your Gamday Menu

Sponsored by Conagra RO*TEL Gameday has finally come. You’ve visualized, created, tested, and perfected your menu, in theory. Now comes the execution. Just like the teams playing on your flat-screens on gameday, your staff must play their roles, cooperate smoothly, and remember the common goal they’re all working for. Gameday Starts with the Front of House Staff Your hosts and hostesses need to control the pace of operations and ensure the guests are being seated with the proper menus. It may seem like it can go without saying, but no shortcuts today. Make sure your hosts team know to only gives guests the gameday menus during the right times. Dropping your full menu when your kitchen is set up for fewer offerings can be a disaster. Even one table ordering rogue when you’re not properly prepped sets your kitchen behind [...]

By |2022-06-07T13:41:49-04:00March 27th, 2019|Sports Bar Management, Sports Bar Marketing|0 Comments
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How to Market Your Gameday Menu

Sponsored by Conagra RO*TEL Your new gameday menu will be a vital spoke on your marketing wheel when it comes time to promoting your overhauled gameday experience. Determining the strengths of the menu and presenting them front and center will help sell guests both new and old on why your establishment deserves the marathon sessions of patronage that come with a full day of sports indulgence. In-House Marketing Your Gameday Menu First, let’s discuss the in-house marketing and how to turn your visitors into repeat customers. Whether you’re using time-tested staples like posters, table stands, and other print materials, or are using digital displays such as tabletop tablets, the goal is the same: get your guests thinking about their next visit before they’ve even paid tonight’s bill. Intrigue and exclusivity can be incredibly valuable cards in your deck. When your [...]

By |2022-06-07T13:45:30-04:00March 17th, 2019|Sports Bar Management, Sports Bar Marketing|0 Comments
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Building & Testing Your Gameday Menu

Sponsored by Conagra RO*TEL Composing and perfecting your gameday menu should begin long before the season does. When considering all aspects of the menu -- from ordering to execution -- balance should be at the front of your brain. Just like your full menu, you never want your special offerings to come off as one-note or repetitive. Varying proteins, textures, temperatures, flavors, cooking methods, and price points ensures that every guest can find something to entice them. This same attention to parity on the line will keep any one station from getting bogged down during the gameday rush. Your kitchen cannot operate at maximum efficiency if your grill cook has a half-full rail while your sauté station has printer tickets about to hit the floor. Spreading the load is vital. Ideally, your grill and sauté cooks should be the strongest [...]

By |2022-06-07T13:46:44-04:00March 15th, 2019|Sports Bar Management, Sports Bar Marketing|0 Comments
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Can a Specialized Gameday Menu Help Your Efficiency?

Sponsored by Conagra RO*TEL You have a dinner menu. You have a lunch menu. You have a brunch menu, a function menu, a cocktail list, a wine list, a beer list, and about 20 more slates of options. Creating another specialized menu probably gives you a little apprehension but rest assured that a properly planned and executed gameday menu will relieve far more headaches than it causes. Picture your sports nights. Whether it be football, college basketball, or the Olympics, there should be throngs of hungry and thirsty guests packing your building. You need quick food, but not “fast food.” The difference always boils down to quality. Anyone can take frozen, prepackaged, ready-to-eat dishes and heat them up in the blink of an eye. You’d be hard-pressed, however, to find a group of people excited to spend a Sunday afternoon [...]

By |2022-06-07T13:49:22-04:00March 13th, 2019|Sports Bar Management, Sports Bar Marketing|0 Comments
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Do Sports Bars Show Women’s Sports?

According to a recent Nielsen report, 84% of sports fans are interested in watching women's sports. But are sports bars taking advantage of that fandom pharmacieinde.com? That's what we're hoping to find out in this short, few-questions survey. Once we get the results, we'll publish them in an infographic juxtaposed to the Nielsen results. We'll also provide some tips for how sports bar operators and managers can identify and maximize the opportunities showing women's sports on TV can bring them.   powered by Typeform

By |2022-06-07T13:48:49-04:00March 6th, 2019|Alternate Sports Programming, Sports Bar Management, Sports Bar Marketing|0 Comments
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