Feb. 8, 2025

422: CMAA World Conference Day 3 Expo Day

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Hey everyone, welcome to the private club radio show podcast, the industry's choice for news, trends, updates, and conversations all in the world of private golf and country clubs.

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I'm your host, Danny Corby, day three of the CMAA world conference.

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One of my favorite days.

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It's the expo days.

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Um, I did not do any sessions.

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I got caught up in the expo.

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So seeing so many people, so many friends, colleagues, uh, acquaintances met a lot of new people.

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Um, so as well as being friendly and having a lot of connections to club managers, club professionals.

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Um, I also have a lot of connections to a lot of the vendors and suppliers and some of those people as well.

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Uh, I would call them, you know, Um, industry partners, industry people as well, some club professionals, cause there's ones who kind of live, breathe and die at the club space.

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There's others that are kind of here just to pick up a couple extra clients.

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So since I didn't go to any sessions, I would say my main takeaway from expo day is there's some people who get it and there's some people who don't.

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And when I say people, I mean vendors, suppliers, there's some that I think, understand the game of relationships and building relationships and genuine connections.

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And they know how to connect with people and they want to connect with people on a deeper level.

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They want to learn more about what's keeping them up at night.

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What's what struggles are they having and how, you know, they can help them find a solution.

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And when I say help them, it's.

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Not always about them and their products.

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It's about finding them the right solution, even if it means not using what they have to offer.

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It's about having a genuine connection and a genuine interest in people and wanting to help people.

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And you can just tell by the booth, by the conversations, by the energy, by the vibe around it.

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I mean, just even you can tell.

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There's some vendors who are happy to be there.

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They want to be there.

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You can tell they're engaged.

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They're excited.

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And there's others.

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I'm just so surprised.

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They just sit there, not even smiles on their faces, just on their phones and can almost care less.

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It is so strange to me, especially because it is not cheap to be there at the expo, to be there at the, at the event.

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Now to that same token, though, there are.

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club managers.

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There are people who are there who are very standoffish as, as well.

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Cause it is very hard to be a vendor at an expo at a place like that as well.

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And I think sometimes there are some club managers who, uh, Could maybe engage a little bit more or not be as standoffish or just them themselves having a genuine interest to learn and see what products and things are available out there.

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Cause it's not always about what you need right now.

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I'm a big fan of making those connections and making those friendships and having the conversations before you need them.

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Uh, cause I think sometimes, you know, we have fires to put out.

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And it's better to have those conversations and to know the people and to know the vendor suppliers and what you may or may not need in the future, because it's going to come to a point that hopefully, uh, you might need something like that product.

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And once you already have that relationship and that connection, uh, I think it makes that a little bit better.

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So I want you to think as you're going through the last day of the vendor expo, try to make a new connection.

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With maybe a vendor or supplier that you may not need right now may not need immediately, but just to start that conversation to learn more about that, make sure they're a good fit for you because just because they're here at the show doesn't mean that they're a great vendor for you.

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And just because you might want that vendor, they may not be the best for you.

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It's about making sure that we're getting the best solutions possible for our clubs, for our members, for our people.

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And I, I love the expo.

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I love seeing all the different products, the different people.

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One of my favorite things I saw there, and some of you may have seen it.

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He was over on the one side, the fajita Butler.

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That is the coolest thing I think I saw in the entire show.

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So cool.

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It's a little, it's for fajitas and it's this little all in one encompassing.

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Fajita builder and it holds the fajitas.

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It keeps them warm on the bottom.

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Uh, it has the little ramekins, uh, that hop that pop on the side.

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Uh, it is so cool.

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And they're only like 50 bucks.

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Like it is silly.

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Uh, so if your club does fajitas, go check out fajita Butler.

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Uh, I just thought that was the coolest product of the entire day.

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So that was day three for me.

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Unfortunately, there was no sessions.

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I got to next thing I knew I was in the vendor expo.

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It was 1230 noon and then it was over.

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So, uh, did not go to any education sessions, but I think there's a ton of education to be had just by going and people watching and learning and networking in the expo area.

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So that's this episode until next time, probably tomorrow, catch y'all on the flippity flip.