Making Pool a Product People Want to Watch!

[336Robin]

Build it and they will come attitude

Alot of good ideas here. I think bowling has tried some similar outside-the-box ideas on TV over the years. Their struggles are fairly similar to ours.

The game of pool itself seems to be viewed by the general public with such a black-box mentality that it is uninteresting to them. Something about how the product is packaged or presented needs to be different to draw interest.

Other major sports have great initiatives to get young kids playing their sport. Their governing bodies obviously have the resources to put that together that pool doesn't, but the point is, they get it. They realize what's important to sustaining their sport and work toward that end. Pool is so disjointed and regionally focused to be effective at growing the sport as a whole. But hey, gotta start somewhere, and there's no reason that it cannot be done. Uphill battle for sure, but possible. We're hard-pressed to find examples where pool has moved in a good,solid, strategic direction as a unit.

I know a local poolroom right next to me that has a few chain restaurants and a big movie theater right next to him, yet the owner has never once walked into those places with some sort of business objective in mine. So yes, he's losing money like many of them.

Thanks for the Kudos. You mentioned the room above and I agree and find this mentality astonishing when I've heard stories from people with room who saved them. One was from a guy here known as macguy on the forums. He lost is alcohol license for a short period and through personal advertising initiatives he doubled his business without a lot of effort.

The people are there and most know about pool but Pool is not being marketed. Perhaps that is because the draw of alcohol makes for some automatic repeat customers. I find it interesting that the minute a guy loses an alcohol license that he increases his business because he starts beating the bushes for it.