[RC] Making Money as a Ride Manager? - Mollie Krumlaw-Smith
Now this is a topic near and dear to my heart as
it's been the cause of more than one disturbance to the domestic tranquility in
our household...
I've been managing rides for 15+ years, as I
mentioned in an earlier post. I manage 2 a year. One is "my" ride
and any profits made I do get to keep (see the next paragraph before you get too
excited). The other I manage for our Ohio club as our annual fund
raiser. For the club ride I usually end up "donating" around $200 to $250
of my own money by the time you consider fuel, phone calls, copies, office
materials, postage, and a couple of the awards I donate. (O.K. probably more
than $250 but I don't really care)
I would venture to guess that if you added all of
my vast profits over these 15 years for "my" ride. I would still be in the hole
somewhere between $1,500 to $2,500....yep a loss...and I'm a CFO so I understand
the entire loss concept very well.
Why do I do it? For perpetuation of the
sport, to bring an event to Ohio that my team can be proud of, and to introduce
this sport to as many new riders as possible. My hope is that some day the
ride will become large enough to support itself without the assistance of my
savings account...thus the domestic tranquility issues.
MKS
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