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I'm trying this gun instruction business as an experiment. Man! --- I've been in a several startup businesses in my time and I've been successful in other ventures in "making that phone ring", but this one is a tough one to advertise.
I'm trying to reach out to newbies -- beginners and women. Advertising private lessons to learn at home or the office then to the range when they're ready. I put an ad in the LA Times classifieds every day for a full week now and tried online ads every day on Craig's List for also a week. Not one call.
Interesting in that I put an ad in Craig's List looking for a female model for a photo shoot with guns for promotional material. I got over 40 replies in one evening! (Makes me think I should try some kind of business involving female models --- because that phone would ring for sure!)
Maybe there's no market for beginners and women? Or I could be doing all this wrong. But I'm willing to experiment. I'm going to try a display ad in the sports section of a newspaper and see how that goes.
I'm trying to reach out to newbies -- beginners and women. Advertising private lessons to learn at home or the office then to the range when they're ready. I put an ad in the LA Times classifieds every day for a full week now and tried online ads every day on Craig's List for also a week. Not one call.
Interesting in that I put an ad in Craig's List looking for a female model for a photo shoot with guns for promotional material. I got over 40 replies in one evening! (Makes me think I should try some kind of business involving female models --- because that phone would ring for sure!)
Maybe there's no market for beginners and women? Or I could be doing all this wrong. But I'm willing to experiment. I'm going to try a display ad in the sports section of a newspaper and see how that goes.