You guys are awesome!
My god you guy are awesome, ive spent the past little bit really reading through and trying to take in as much advice as i can.
Alot of what im reading is that the focus should be towards the new player since like paintball its a niche sport and the more people playing=more people needing equipment.
So here's what i have already going for us:
JUST received the order from discraft (man those guys are fast!). I placed this order before posting my original thread but i still think i did alright as far as what i ordered.
I got around 40 disc's and spread them pretty evenly between: elite-z, pro d & ESP. Got mostly nukes, buzzz, comets & a few wasps
(apparently every putter i ordered was out of stock:doh: and discraft doesn't do backorder)
I also got 4 of the "display racks" from Discraft which are alright but how i have them placed currently makes it a little akward to flip through the discs.
Here's how the currently placement looks:
Its not ideal but space is kind of tight right now until we move locations but if you guys had any advice on how to lay them out better for the customer?
So from what you guys got here's kind of how i plan to continue:
- Stock the widest selection i can of mostly the tried/true molds and let my customer base determine what else/specialty discs to bring in
- Make sure me and the other employees not only know what we have but know what to recommend especially to new customers or if we have odd brands KNOW HOW THEY FLY
-Keep the community on my side. IE help out the local courses, players and especially clubs
- FOR NOW to get us started with out too much overhead put in an order to innova and probaly aim to initially have only 125ish discs in the shop and also talk with lat 64 as from my browsing seems moderately popular in this area.
- For the prices (once again sorry if i should post this) i initially used what discraft had sent me: $9.99 for pro D, 15.99 for Elite-z & $17.99 for ESP. These seem to be pretty much exactly what i see everywhere else so i may be able to talk the owner into a break. What are you guys usually payin for the discraft stuff?
Anyways thanks so much for all the help already really looking forward to helping the community around here and hopefully growing this sport! With these being the 2 sports i love as many people as i can get to cross over both ways is great for me!
oh and im located up in NW washington and we have about 5 courses open within 20 minutes of us
Thanks again!
-Taylor