I'll tell you when pool started to go to hell in this country. About the same time the "Made in America" started its down hill slide in value as well. Americans feel they're entitled to what ever America stands for to them. Most pool player in this country feel as long as they can pay an entry fee, they have the rights to play any world class player that enters a tournament for their own entertainment, they feel they're entitled to *****, complain, and threaten to with hold their entry fees unless their demands are met, and promoters know they need the masses of the entitled players to support the pool tournament's they promote as they only contribute a chicken shit amount of the actual prize money and the rest comes from the masses.
I'll tell you why pool is dying in this country. It's because no one wants to change the way things are, except for the worse. When most room owners start seeing their income starting to slide...they start charging more to those still showing up, rather than fixing the problems as to why customers are starting to decline. Believe it or not "POOL" is MADE IN AMERICA all the way, but like so many other things in this country, "SOLD IN AMERICA" should be the next great motor! Because the rest of the world has cause onto the fact that if the build it better, sell it cheaper....they'll have loyal AMERICAN buyers all day long, BECAUSE MADE IN AMERICA cost to much anymore. See, rather than fix the problem....raise the cost to the last remaining customers you have left. MADE IN AMERICA is just like most of the league players out here, IF you want MY business, then in turn I WANT FREE POOL, A ROUND OF DRINKS....AND FREE PRACTICE TIME....because I'M WORTH IT. Well, a lot of bars and pool rooms that tried to use that BS to save their ass's still failed....because they failed to fix the underlying problems they already had....rather than fix the bathrooms, keep up with their pool tables, replace the carpet....make their place more presentable to their customers....they continued to take what ever they could until there was nothing left to take....and then closed the doors....so that everyone might morn the loss of another place to play pool.
Pool is growing like wildfire in other countries. We have the best slate queries in the world in Vermont, why are we buying slate from Brazil? We use to have cloth mills in this country, but not anymore. We really don't make the BEST of anything anymore....do we?
The American public shops at Walmart not because they can afford it, they shop there because everyone else is OVER PRICED compared to what they're WILLING to pay. And the POOL world is the same way, players wanting more....but want to spend less. Owners wanting more income, but are less than willing to invest a dime to be more presentable to ATTRACT customers.
WHY does anyone think it took Mark Griffin so long to get Pool Sharks reopened? I'll tell you why, because he knows in order to be successful he has to show first off....I'm not like the other owners, I'm going to invest in YOU the customer as much as I'm going to invest in this SHIT HOLE and get it cleaned up and respectable again....because you customers deserve to have a clean, safe, and decent place to play pool, where you can drink and get some great food to eat as well.
When you raise your rates and costs to the customer because you've made the investment, they'll return it in favor. If you simply raise your cost to the customer and the see they get nothing in return....LIKE DOING THINGS THE AMERICAN WAY....get ready to fall flat on your face.
When POOL began to slide in AMERICA, was about the same time the rest of the world started discover what a great sport this is.....and the AMERICAN pool players felt to ENTITLED that the world could do NOTHING to take this sport from us.....like FOOTBALL, BASKETBALL, BASEBALL...no one can take THOSE sports from us AMERICANS........IF WE DON'T LET THE REST OF THE WORLD PLAY they'll always be OUR very own sports!!!.....LOLOLOLOLOL
I'll tell you why pool is dying in this country. It's because no one wants to change the way things are, except for the worse. When most room owners start seeing their income starting to slide...they start charging more to those still showing up, rather than fixing the problems as to why customers are starting to decline. Believe it or not "POOL" is MADE IN AMERICA all the way, but like so many other things in this country, "SOLD IN AMERICA" should be the next great motor! Because the rest of the world has cause onto the fact that if the build it better, sell it cheaper....they'll have loyal AMERICAN buyers all day long, BECAUSE MADE IN AMERICA cost to much anymore. See, rather than fix the problem....raise the cost to the last remaining customers you have left. MADE IN AMERICA is just like most of the league players out here, IF you want MY business, then in turn I WANT FREE POOL, A ROUND OF DRINKS....AND FREE PRACTICE TIME....because I'M WORTH IT. Well, a lot of bars and pool rooms that tried to use that BS to save their ass's still failed....because they failed to fix the underlying problems they already had....rather than fix the bathrooms, keep up with their pool tables, replace the carpet....make their place more presentable to their customers....they continued to take what ever they could until there was nothing left to take....and then closed the doors....so that everyone might morn the loss of another place to play pool.
Pool is growing like wildfire in other countries. We have the best slate queries in the world in Vermont, why are we buying slate from Brazil? We use to have cloth mills in this country, but not anymore. We really don't make the BEST of anything anymore....do we?
The American public shops at Walmart not because they can afford it, they shop there because everyone else is OVER PRICED compared to what they're WILLING to pay. And the POOL world is the same way, players wanting more....but want to spend less. Owners wanting more income, but are less than willing to invest a dime to be more presentable to ATTRACT customers.
WHY does anyone think it took Mark Griffin so long to get Pool Sharks reopened? I'll tell you why, because he knows in order to be successful he has to show first off....I'm not like the other owners, I'm going to invest in YOU the customer as much as I'm going to invest in this SHIT HOLE and get it cleaned up and respectable again....because you customers deserve to have a clean, safe, and decent place to play pool, where you can drink and get some great food to eat as well.
When you raise your rates and costs to the customer because you've made the investment, they'll return it in favor. If you simply raise your cost to the customer and the see they get nothing in return....LIKE DOING THINGS THE AMERICAN WAY....get ready to fall flat on your face.
When POOL began to slide in AMERICA, was about the same time the rest of the world started discover what a great sport this is.....and the AMERICAN pool players felt to ENTITLED that the world could do NOTHING to take this sport from us.....like FOOTBALL, BASKETBALL, BASEBALL...no one can take THOSE sports from us AMERICANS........IF WE DON'T LET THE REST OF THE WORLD PLAY they'll always be OUR very own sports!!!.....LOLOLOLOLOL
