Please tell me what we (GPR) are doing wrong, - in other words why don't you buy from us. |
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Please tell me what we (GPR) are doing wrong, - in other words why don't you buy from us. |
Brian_Boss |
Nov 25 2014, 04:01 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 324 Joined: 3-June 03 From: Dallas, TX Member No.: 781 |
This is not a sales pitch. I'm sincerely asking for feedback on what we could do, or do better, in order to earn your business.
Even if it's not something I can fix, it would still be good to know. For instance, I realize a lot of people have a loyalty to certain vendor as a result of a long standing personal or business relationship. I go out of my way not to spam this forum with commercial posts so I hope this isn't viewed as objectionable. Brian |
r_towle |
Nov 25 2014, 06:10 PM
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Custom Member Group: Members Posts: 24,574 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Taxachusetts Member No.: 124 Region Association: North East States |
Sounds like you need to get the word out and do marketing.
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Brian_Boss |
Nov 25 2014, 06:58 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 324 Joined: 3-June 03 From: Dallas, TX Member No.: 781 |
Sounds like you need to get the word out and do marketing. Not disagreeing but this, along with others' comments, suggests that my banner here isn't too effective. Is my banner creative just crap, or have people learned to ignore them?? I will be bumping getting a Google Adwords campaign going to the top of my "to-do" list. Thanks for the feedback. |
SirAndy |
Nov 25 2014, 07:24 PM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 41,644 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
Not disagreeing but this, along with others' comments, suggests that my banner here isn't too effective. Is my banner creative just crap, or have people learned to ignore them?? The banners here are less intrusive then on some of the other sites, including Pelican. IMHO that's a good thing but they are easy to miss. Maybe we should have a vendors showcase page that is more static but allows each vendor to add a bit more info about them. Also, i really liked the old black GPR T-Shirts and people would always come up and ask about GPR when i was wearing it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) |
Madswede |
Nov 27 2014, 05:50 PM
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Flat Out Driver Group: Members Posts: 853 Joined: 13-September 06 From: Rio Rancho NM Member No.: 6,831 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
Also, i really liked the old black GPR T-Shirts and people would always come up and ask about GPR when i was wearing it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) I'll back this up. They really are cool-looking shirts! I have a black GPR tee also, which I won as a door prize at one of the Rt66 Classics. Might I suggest making another run of those and sending some to the events as give-away door prizes? But I'm no businessman, so I wouldn't necessarily take my advice without that grain of salt. I think you've got logo recognition down pat - it's a very catching logo, but it is a little hard to make out the letters GPR. The T-shirt solves that issue by being bigger and being warn by a human being who might know something about the company. I've found with the shirts, people have their eye drawn to it and so they ask me, at which point I point to the website on the shirt. As a customer, I plan to shop with you for maintenance items and some other tidbits (maybe an O2 sensor for a 3.2 but I'm not the builder and would need to check what is compatible with my PLX wideband sensor and the Megasquirt system). As might be guessed by my saying all that, I also have the issue of a 1973 chassis with an 1987 3.2L engine (mostly) and 2013 engine management. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) In any event, I'm looking over oil selections now, in fact. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/type.gif) - Jon |
Brian_Boss |
Nov 27 2014, 09:47 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 324 Joined: 3-June 03 From: Dallas, TX Member No.: 781 |
Also, i really liked the old black GPR T-Shirts and people would always come up and ask about GPR when i was wearing it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) I'll back this up. They really are cool-looking shirts! I have a black GPR tee also, which I won as a door prize at one of the Rt66 Classics. Might I suggest making another run of those and sending some to the events as give-away door prizes? But I'm no businessman, so I wouldn't necessarily take my advice without that grain of salt. I think you've got logo recognition down pat - it's a very catching logo, but it is a little hard to make out the letters GPR. The T-shirt solves that issue by being bigger and being warn by a human being who might know something about the company. I've found with the shirts, people have their eye drawn to it and so they ask me, at which point I point to the website on the shirt. As a customer, I plan to shop with you for maintenance items and some other tidbits (maybe an O2 sensor for a 3.2 but I'm not the builder and would need to check what is compatible with my PLX wideband sensor and the Megasquirt system). As might be guessed by my saying all that, I also have the issue of a 1973 chassis with an 1987 3.2L engine (mostly) and 2013 engine management. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) In any event, I'm looking over oil selections now, in fact. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/type.gif) - Jon Thanks for the input. I am going to do some more shirts soon. |
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