Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Addicted's Grand Opening Dyno Event

















We finally had our Grand Opening Dyno Event.   It was A LOT of work!   I worked on the advertising end of it for 3 months.  I probably put out 300 flyer's on vehicles in the past few weeks alone.  A few of our clients and friends also helped us advertise and that really really helped.  Those friends told their friends and their friends told their friends.  It was a ripple effect.  We had a lot of our family here to support us in our event which was great.  We had free hot chocolate and hot dogs for everyone who came.   Once the event was done we paid $1000.00 in prize payouts for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places for all 4 classes.  Every one's top question during the day was "will you do this again next year?"  Its a hard question to answer....Although it was a great turn out it was a lot of work..... I was burnt out!!!  And even then with 38 trucks running on the dyno we still were $600 of falling short of breaking even on the event.  But Who know how much business we will get from the event and we will only know that 6 months from now.  But I think all in all...... Next year it won't be as hard to advertise for it, now we know how to run an event like this.  We have all the paper work.  So yes we will be making this an annual event.

2 comments:

kendahl a. said...

I was really hoping we would be able to make it up! At least to watch and support you guys. But things didn't work out so well. It looks like a good turn-out though! We will have to make it to the next one. :)

Jim and Lavee Strong said...

Looks like it was very successful.
Proud of you kids to tackle something Sooo BIG. Nice that both families could help you stage such a great event. Love ya