New Poll -- Your Fav Radio Station

cudacollins said
I vote rock an roll. BUT I believe you should pay close attention to the people who respond in/around YOUR 50-100 mile radius (if your concerned with LOCAL business),,, you know your area, best. Maybe do a survey at the local car shows, asking the same question. Or an ad in some of the major auto rags, or hand outs at the major car shows. Talk with some of the major venders, an ask them to include one of your hand-outs in they're sales, if you want to expand beyond local sales.

CudaCollins, you make some valid points as well. The problem is there aren't any local car shows to speak of, or even swap meets. I live in the boonies and they're all farmers!!! LOL It's not "expanding beyond local sales" that I'm trying to accomplish. The internet -- and you FABO and BOG guys -- are my best friends! 99.8% of all my customers to date have been from anywhere EXCEPT here.

I've been donating Gift Certificates (along with flyers and biz cards) to various car shows all over the country for fifteen months now. There's a big list of them on the home page of my website. ONE GUY turned one in so far, just last week, from the Dave & Ed's Auto Events Spring Show in Canfield, Ohio. (He doesn't own a computer so he's never even seen any of my work.)

As funds permit, you'll all start to see my ads in the Mopar rags and [gasp!] probably some Chevy and Ford magazines too. The only paid advertising I've ever done was through streetrodding.com, a seemingly good ol' boys' network that's resulted in one customer last December (who I did over $500 worth of work for, picked up his parts and paid me with a bad check). I'm not too inclined to renew that fiasco next month when it expires.

I've talked with another vendor here on FABO about doing some powder coated parts for them to sell ... we even developed a poll for you all to answer to test the waters and see if there was any interest in the venture. It didn't even get a reply (my fault, because my poll had more than one question and there's no way to do a multi-question poll on here). I'm still trying to figure out an easy way to do it so stay tuned for that.