Secure venue, secure MC's, bands, d.j.s, create a theme, come up a name for the event i.e.
and perhaps a catchy tag line, i.e. "Put a Girl on your Grill"; a tag line we use for our car washes.
Guesstimating our figures, I believe we raised about five thousand as a combined total from all three of these events, and I may be generous.
The volunteers, including the bands do not get paid a lot if anything and all the money we raise is filtered back into producing our bouts, paying rental costs of our venue, practice space, printing costs and if we can afford it, travel expenses to bout out of town leagues.
We feature our own skaters on almost all of our print advertising as a way to familiarize the public with its new home town derby girl athletes. I feel its exciting to see someone in person that you've become familiar with in print ads. Its good for marketing your league to your town.
All of these things contribute to getting the word out and making it something fun and different for someone to want to say "Okay, I'll give you my money." In most cases, it takes months of preparation and the rewards are not always pleasing and its mostly always stressful.
There is one thing that does me feel rewarded for the effort and that is when I see children smile or gawk in amazement at these large amazon women on 8 tiny wheels, plowing into each other at speeds upwards of 20 mph, falling down, jumping up and keep on skating.
And if children's smiles don't please you, then you'll certainly gleam from the goofy pictures that are born, whether you remember them being snapped, or not!
