August 24, 2010

We're excited to share this "Idea of the Week", submitted by either the MAiZE staff or one of your fellow siteowners. There never seems to be a shortage of ideas and the truth is that some of the best originate with all of you! So, if you ever have an idea you'd like us to pass along to the group, please just send it our way. Also, please remember that we'll be archiving these ideas on the siteowner web site, so that you can go back and view them whenever you like.

This week’s idea demonstrates the potential benefits of including festivals and other special events to your season this fall. Though it can be difficult to find the time to do much more than keep our daily attractions operating smoothly, delegating someone on your staff to oversee a weekend event or two during your season can go a long way toward:

 

- drawing customers back within the same season

- giving customers from previous seasons an added incentive to return

- increasing season pass sales

 

To help jumpstart your creative juices, our staff has compiled some of our favorite ideas for corn and pumpkin festivals into two guides that have been posted to the siteowner website. To view them, go to the RESOURCES>DOWNLOADS section of the siteowner site or simply click on the images below. We hope that maybe an idea or two from each of the guides will be the perfect addition to your event calendar!