How To Create A Successful Business With A Miniature Golf Course
It’s not as difficult to start a miniature golf course business as you would assume.
It can be quite convenient to hire a turnkey company like Mini Golf Ltd to build, design, and furnish a “ready-to-play” course.
To ensure that your course will be successful, research must be done before starting any new business venture.
- Research your mini golf idea
So you’ve decided to launch a mini-golf course business and are pretty excited about the prospect. I love that! However, before getting carried away, you should first thoroughly investigate the practicality of your concept.
You should conduct research into the following to determine whether your business model will be successful: the demographics and population of your town, city, or suburb; whether there are similar businesses in your area competing for the same market share; whether related businesses in your area have succeeded or failed; and what went wrong or right; and other miniature golf courses.
- Recognize Your Market
Knowing your typical customer’s demands, interests, desires, and other characteristics will help you better understand your market. This could entail conducting market research or simply thinking about how to draw in your target market.
Families—Mum, Dad, and the kids—were the original target market for mini-golf courses (the older putt-putt version). The newer, more realistic miniature golf courses, however, are much more popular with consumers. They are made to be enjoyable for everyone—children, teenagers, young adults, parents, and even golf professionals.
- Have Business Acumen
To operate a mini-golf course business, you are not required to have any special qualifications. In reality, the business will effectively run itself after the program is developed, requiring little maintenance and labor. It might also generate large recurring returns.
Before deciding to develop a miniature golf business, it is a good idea to be familiar with its operations. To understand more about running a miniature golf course, we advise talking to someone who does it in a different location (and is not in direct competition with you).
- Select The Ideal Location
The ancient real estate maxim “location, location, location!” also holds true when establishing a mini golf business. The location you choose can have a significant impact on your success.
If you’re considering expanding an existing business with a mini golf course (e.g., a golf course, hotel, amusement park, or holiday park). Your location will thereafter have been determined. But you might still consider how to make the course easy to find on your current website. Additionally, how to increase exposure to guests and onlookers
- Ticket Costs
How much you can charge for admission is yet another important aspect to take into account when starting a miniature golf course business. This may affect the quantity and nature of customers you draw in, as well as how quickly you can recoup your expenses and turn a profit.
To get this number correct, you might want to conduct some market research. However, a great place to start is by comparing the admission costs of any rival or comparable businesses in your community, as well as other miniature golf facilities in other cities.
- The Course’s Size
Your miniature golf course’s size (number of holes) is crucial for a number of reasons. It will influence how partially: how much cash you’ll need to put down and how much you can charge for tickets; and how likely you are to draw in recurring customers.
The size of your property will frequently dictate the size of a miniature golf course.
Industry Overview
Miniature golf is becoming more and more popular as a fun and affordable recreational activity for the whole family. Most contemporary courses charge approximately $5.50 per person and over a basic season, this business can easily expect to take in between $118,000 and $356,000 a year! Since miniature golf is a leisure time activity, you can expect most of the play to occur in evening and weekend hours. With a typical capacity of 100 players per hour, and a charge of $5.50 per hour, that translates to an income of $550.00 per hour at peak times.
The length of playing season will vary depending on the geographical area and the range of time you can expect comfortable temperatures. But even with a season of only 4 months, the profits will generally be well worth the investment, with many owners earning back their investment in just one year.
In our complete guide of setting and running a miniature golf business you get:
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………………….. 3
Industry Overview………………………………………………………………………………………. 3
Developing New Accounts and Customers……………………………………………………….. 3
SECTION ONE………………………………………………………………………………………. 5
Getting Your Miniature Golf Course Started…………………………………………………….. 5
Financing Your Miniature Golf Course…………………………………………………………… 6
Choosing a Name for Your Miniature Golf Course………………………………………….. 8
Choosing Your Miniature Golf Course Location………………………………………………. 9
Miniature Golf Course Layout and Design……………………………………………………… 15
Guidelines to Establishing Product and Service Pricing…………………………………… 19
Licenses, Permits and Regulations……………………………………………………………. 22
SECTION TWO……………………………………………………………………………………. 24
Managing Your Miniature Golf Course Operation……………………………………………… 24
Signs and Your Business…………………………………………………………………………….. 25
Planning Your Advertising Budget……………………………………………………………….. 30
Miniature Golf Course Market Analysis…………………………………………………………. 36
Your Miniature Golf Course Marketing Plan…………………………………………………… 46
SECTION THREE………………………………………………………………………………….. 52
Accounting/Bookkeeping…………………………………………………………………………….. 52
Furnishings and Equipment…………………………………………………………………………. 53
Cost Control……………………………………………………………………………………………. 54
Projecting Your Sales Potential……………………………………………………………………. 54
Cash Control Systems………………………………………………………………………………. 55
Employee Theft………………………………………………………………………………………. 57
Bad Checks and Credit Card Fraud…………………………………………………………… 62
SECTION FOUR………………………………………………………………………………………. 63
Miniature Golf Course Designers and Associations……………………………………. 63
SECTION FIVE………………………………………………………………………………………… 65
Information Pertaining to Employees……………………………………………………………….. 79
How to Keep Your Employees………………………………………………………………….. 68
Application for Employment………………………………………………………………………….. 69
Employee Training Record
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