How to run clubhouse renovation communication as a retention job: the vote, the assessment letter, construction disruption and reopening, in sequence.
Category: Industry News & Trends
Form 990 Part VII data on 4,120 club staff at 1,062 clubs: the median general manager reported $236,299, and pay at $20M-plus clubs runs 3.5 times the under-$5M median.
November runs three calendars at once: the 60 days after the dues letter, the Thanksgiving-to-December event season and the year-end membership close. A dated week-by-week plan, with six club examples.
Equestrian programs are a rare amenity at private clubs. See the growth in the sport, what members want, and how clubs can use horses to build membership.
Most clubhouse carpet cannot tell you where it came from. Five questions to put to any supplier before you specify, with one New Zealand wool maker as the worked example.
Florida’s ten highest-revenue member-owned clubs, ranked from their own Form 990 filings. Boca West leads at $95.1 million, and the top ten grew 60 percent from fiscal 2019 to 2024.
Private clubs run on two ledgers: dues carry daily operations, while initiation fees and assessments fund buildings and courses. Here is how each revenue stream works, with sourced industry data and examples from Boca West, Jacksonville Golf & Country Club, Carolina Golf Club, and The Club at Forest Ridge.
Instagram Collab posts let reciprocal private clubs share one post, one set of comments and two audiences. What the data shows, how to choose a partner of similar size, and five formats that work.
Most private clubs are proposer-required, not invitation-only, and many will help you meet members even if you know no one. Here is how the process works and how to approach it.
Crush season is a six-week window most clubs waste on a single generic wine dinner. Here’s the four-event playbook — kickoff, harvest dinner, allocation night, and a Wine Experience watch party — that Bay Harbor, Bellevue, Clearwater, Sonoma Golf Club, and City Club of Baton Rouge are already running to turn fall into their best wine-club quarter.