Thanks for the recommendations, atblis.
Firearms Emporium has been on my site for almost a year, and for free. Now that I've talked to him about paying the whopping $10 a month, he's waffling.
And I've already referred paying customers to him.
This is how I work: I offer a shop owner six months on my site for free. After that, if they don't think it's worth it, that's fine. If they need a bit of time to think about it, that's fine, too.
If they make me call them back six, eight or even a dozen times like some shops, then I go looking for their competitors, get the competitors on my site, and zap the guys who've wasted my time right off the site.
Firearms Emporium is taxing my patience. Strange, since I've steered so many potential new customers their way.
For those so bored as to wonder how the site is doing, today was a banner day. I called a shop in the middle of corn country in Indiana to see if he had a Glock 20 C in stock.
He didn't, but thought he could get one.
Meanwhile, I asked him---as I do every shop owner I talk to---if he had a SA M6 Scout carbine in stock, or a SA Ultra Compact V-10 stainless, or any number of other hard-to-find guns that people are always emailing me about.
Well, he had two M6's. And I had him three customers within an hour, and all three wanted to buy both.
On top of that, he'd already gotten several calls off my site, and some new paying customers. And he's in the middle of Absolutely Nowhere.
Forgive me for venting, but I'm finding shops that understand that even $10 a month is worth it. And I'm finding shops--even some of the largest in the country--who question that amount.
Ah, well. So goes business.
