nascarjoe,
First off understand I'm not trying to be argumentive.
But in reading your responses I'm still not clear as to how you have arrived at your cliam that you would be unable to find instructors even if you provided compensation.
In your first response you said this:
I seldom see any fliers there, let alone instructors. From what I gather in my experience with clubs, the few instructors I've come across have little to no desire to spend much if any time teaching, whether they are compensated in any form or not.
My reply may not have been percise enough
That's not what I was asking you. Have you contacted the club officers with any type of business perposal?
Your response was that you belong to a club. Is this club the same one that uses the field you were talking about.
The reason I ask is that I have found that most peoples motivation level is proportional to their compensation level.
Agian have you actually brought any type of concrete proposal to any club? How about approaching individuals. I find it hard to believe that given the right incentives you would find it impossible to find at least one qualified instructor that would allow to add value to your sales.
You may have thought of these but How about ;
1. Sponser a local training night you provide some fuel and maybe a RTF trianner. Get a bunch of your customers to come out and try it before they buy.
2. How about a coupon system give your customers coupons that the instructors could reedem (after each lesson or a preset group of lessons) at your shop.
It seems to me that if you are creating a demand for instructors (by selling to beginners) then there should be some way for you to fullfill that demand with the local flyers. You just got to get creative.
I would also think that your programs could be done in such a manner where expenses wouldn't be too great and they are deductible business expenses.
The reason why I think this would work is because before I learned to fly I bought and crashed several planes mail order and finally went to a LHS and bought the plane (much more expensive) with the express understanding that the he or club he belonged to would teach me to fly it. That was almost 19 years ago and I'm still flying.