I am always trying to improve the information here at the fishng-blog. To help me out would you take 2 mins to fill out the Fishing-blog 2012 Census.
A number of large sea angling business websites have been contacted and are also spreading the word about this census so I am hoping for some great results.
The more people that help out by filling out the form, the better the blog will become and the better sea fishing will be for everyone. If the site is not helping people to improve then I am wasting your time!
I look forward to sharing the results with you all when the census has closed in June. I will be sending to the results to all the major brands, personalities, magazines and websites within the sea fishing industry. So please take part and tell others about it!!!!
If you are a site owner and you help share the word you will of course be mentioned on the results page that will be sent out for EVERYONE to see, I don’t have to explain the value in that
Thanks and Here is the link
Thanks for taking the time to participate — I’m looking forward to a great 2012!
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I’d like to follow up on Charlie’s cotmenms but with a manufacturer’s point of view.First of all, Charlie and Mike are two of my better customers. Every year their numbers grow even as more and more product finds its way onto EBay and while other shops fail. The answer is obvious- good service. If a customer comes into your shop to size some boots or try out a rod and then leaves to buy it on the internet at a discount, you haven’t provided the service or education that he needs.Secondly, internet discounting is a way of life and there isn’t a product in the world that isn’t discounted. Everyone needs to deal with that reality and adjust their business model accordingly. I don’t think that it is the responsibility of manufacturers to patrol the web and look for discounters. If that were the case, we would have to attend every “retail” show in the winter and bust nearly half of our customers. I think that they have a perfect right to dump stuff that doesn’t sell; if they don’t learn their lesson about buying bad product, they will be out of business quickly. And in reality, I think that the impact on the market is minimal. At least our products aren’t being counterfeited, which steals money from both the manufacturer and the retailer.Thirdly, this is a very tiny market. Fly shops are becoming homogeneous in their offerings for the simple reason that the industry cannot support that many manufacturers. Very few fly shops would be able to brand their own products like The Fly Shop. And it also ignores the fact that the brand names of major manufacturers have a lot of appeal that has been built up by extensive advertising, promotion and the most important of all- word of mouth.Our business has grown quite a bit in the last few years. Our company pays attention to the quality of our products, but more importantly we offer our customers good service. I don’t know of any business at any level that has survived long term without it.
Hi Jamie.
Customer satisfaction / feed back - Are you going for ISO 9001:2008 certification?
I enjoy reading the material within the web page, you have done a good job to date, keep up the good work.
I would like to see / read more on sea fly fishing, at present I am far too busy to get any fishing done, also, where to buy the flies, I have tried making them nowhere near as good as what one can buy.
Regards.
Stuart
Just had to look that up… More of a Mission Statement and direction for the site to improve what we provide. The feedback is interesting and hard to read at the same time, criticism is tough!
Just to advise I have reduced the pop over to every 40 days after a few complaints… The one that captures your email address…