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Master Greenkeeper John Quinn is the author of Performance Bowling Greens, and several other titles on Greenkeeping, Club and Business Management.

Boom Time in Bowling

Boom time in bowls participation.

Bowls Central, although very popular now in relation to when I started the site 5 years ago, is still what could be termed a “niche” website. The audience for a site like Bowls Central is never going to be easy to find online. Due to this fact, I now spend a lot of time promoting the site on social media such as Twitter to get the site in front of new readers.

To monitor the success (or otherwise) of these campaigns I use software that allows me to see how many people interact with the messages I put out there. When I tweet about an article on bowls central I can usually be sure of between 5 and 10 people clicking through to read the article, some of whom might become regular readers or maybe even join as a free member of Bowls Central which gives them full access to nearly 300 articles on the site.

I also monitor the news being released about lawn bowls and sometimes tweet links to articles that I think my Twitter followers might like.

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Getting your feet in the right place.

In today’s Bowls Tip video, John Tiplady, the creator of Tippers Chalkies, introduces a failsafe method for getting your feet in the right position. The advice John gives on arm movements (your arm should be free to move like a pendulum) and comfort is, again, so simple but so obviously coming from a highly experienced bowler. OK, the sunshine helps too I suppose…enjoy today’s video lesson:

 

Opening Day Preparation

Bowls Coaches and Umpires we need you!

Calling all bowls Coaches and Umpires

Bowls Central has been delivering greenkeeping and club management advice for 5 years now and we have grown a substantial readership as a result.

Now that the site is established as an online destination for bowlers and clubs looking for help, I’d like to expand the range of advice offered.

In particular I see a need for detailed articles on the following subject areas:

  1. The Rules of the game (all disciplines and federations) and the decisions that are made about these during matches by Umpires.
  2. Coaching techniques and advice for players to help them improve their game and advice on how to deliver effective coaching at club level.

With this in mind, I’d like to ask if you, or any of your friends have experience in either of these fields and would be interested in writing an article, a series of articles or even a regular column for Bowls Central?

I’d like to see this type of help expanded as much as our readership feels it needs to be on Bowls Central so am happy to support you in any way I can to help you deliver advice on these subjects. There is no direct payment available for this work, but depending on the quality and frequency of articles you are able to provide, we can support writers in some or all of the following:

  • Editing and formatting articles for publication
  • Publicising your work through the site, our mailing list and our social media channels
  • Helping you to sell (on bowls central) any services or publications you’ve created that will be of benefit to our readership relating to these subject areas.
  • Help with design, editing, layout and publishing of any longer written works you create on these subjects.

Please feel free to reply with any questions you have about this, or to make a suggestion. I’d also be pleased if you could alert any of your friends or contacts who might be interested.

 

Please reply using the contact form.

 

 

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Objective Measurement of Bowls Green Performance

Objective Measurement of Bowls Green Performance

"Bad rinks", "bad roads on rinks", "straight hands", "off the heads", just some of the multitude of anecdotal evidence for poor bowling green performance. Meantime the real causes of problem greens are not only missed, but are actually being perpetuated by some of the maintenance practice we employ. The Objective Measurement of Bowls Green Performance is long overdue so we can move on and start to work on the real issues.

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