eating healthy for summertime pool fun! shrimp skewers marinated in italian dressing, with baked potato fries and julienne zucchini, squash, bell pepper, and onion.
I'm just going to wrap this up and close it since (strangely) the topic of handing out business cards is far too intense a topic for some.
We appreciate the suggestion, we also appreciate the willingness you guys have to promote the brand thru word of mouth, but please consider this from our perspective:
1) Printing business cards costs money, we wouldn't/couldn't sell them to you, and we couldn't control how they were used so how do we manage something like that without it becoming a black hole of cost? A downloadable document you can print is another option, but what guarantee do we have that the printed cards are delivered in a manner consistent to our standards? A wadded up, mustard stained, black and white sheet of paper doesn't exactly scream "premium". Not saying you guys would do this, but its an option if we open it up.
2) We already produce DVD's that are free with your orders as well as a catalog thats coming soon. These materials provide APPROVED company information on all the products, processes, etc. as well as contact information for the company, website, etc. Since these are marketing and instructional materials we already produce and provide that have a consistent method of delivery it makes the most sense to use these rather than add a card.
3) While our customers are our best advocates they are not our spokespeople. The vast majority of our customers would do an excellent job of representing us, I have no doubt, but there is a contingent (as mentioned by others above) that might not understand the products as well as they think they do or even misrepresent the products. A scenario like this can do more harm than good and we want our products to be represented officially - thus the reason a catalog or DVD makes so much sense as it contains the info and the contact / ordering stuff.
In the end we appreciate the willingness to 'market' for us, but you do have to understand that from a business perspective control of our brand image is a very important thing as is not flushing money down a hole we cannot control or measure.
Word of mouth marketing is called WORD OF MOUTH for a reason... not word of card. I'm sure we could sit here all day and come up with 1,000 specific scenarios and types of shows where it would or wouldn't work. The fact remains that we are an online company. A person will have to be fairly comfortable with the idea of shopping online (or at least browsing online) to do business with us.
A simple "I use Adam's Polishes, heres a DVD" will suffice. If you don't have the DVD thats fine... just telling them gets us an endorsement that money can't buy. If the guy remembers GREAT! If he doesn't then thats our fault for not making him aware we exist.
How this became such a source of hurt feelings I will never understand, but topic closed. Enjoy your weekends and try not to take the internet so seriously.
I use it on wheels and I just applied it to the front end of my truck to help with the bugs on this weekends drive. I'm excited to see how easy it will make bug removal!
I use it on wheels and I just applied it to the front end of my truck to help with the bugs on this weekends drive. I'm excited to see how easy it will make bug removal!
If I was you Brian, I'd go Flex. I got the PC last Xmas and after doing a couple rigs, I wish I would have got the Flex. I haven't used the Flex yet, but from what I understand it works much faster than the PC does. Just my 2 cents man.
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