any advice on advertising my drop hats?

[619E30]

Try putting it on bimmerforums

[peerless]

I have been interested in a pair since I seen them. I also even offered a trade deal on one of my skid plates.

Couple things I might suggest. One is your business name.

Diverse Motorsports dot ORG.

One you need a .com. its the truth. It may seem trivial but when people see .com it says 'Commercial' and Commercial says 'Business'.

.org says, 'Organization', not business.

Its like have a business email of yahoo or aol. It doesn't sound professional.

Diverse Motorsports sounds like just some other random name like you would get from a random name generator. It has no meaning. I mean whats diverse about what your selling? Nothing, your just selling a one hit wonder, you have no diversity at all. When people think of Motorsports they think of race cars and power sports, not some guy reselling drop hats.

That is another thing, your product is not unique really. Its just a OEM looking spring perch. Hell I originally thought you where reselling a factory OEM part in the beginning.

Also when you say shipped over here, I assume they come from another country so the shipping is going to kill you and you are not offering free shipping as you are just adding it into the cost of the part. So your probably buying these things for $50 a set, paying $10 shipping to the customer and probably paying a equal amount in per part shipping from the country of origin. So in the end you might be pulling $30 profit per set.

I honestly am interested in a set, but for just a 15mm drop and the fact you have to pull the strut towers out most likely damaging the dust boots on your control arms and tie rods, compress the spring and take the strut mounts off and reassemble everything for a very subtle drop is asking alot.

I think you would be better instead of trying to sell then yourself, you market them to the bigger retailers. Such as BMP, BavAuto, AKG, UUC, Turner, I would even be willing to put them on my website and advertise them and sell them to my customers.

My customers spend thousands of dollars on suspension setups on a regular basis. I just did a E30 M3, 325is, 318is, I got a ground control coil over setup that came in today, Another HR/Billy sport combo on Friday, and another one the week after that. I have done more suspension setups in the last 3 years then you could shake a stick at. I do them from street to full competition setups.

I don't carry alot of clout here on R3v and have even had my business logo stripped for being a douche in one of the threads. But like the guys say above, R3v members are shamelessly cheap fucks, so not really my clientele anyways.

Hit me up and maybe we can work a deal out. I want a percentage off each sale and you do the drop shipping. I am not just simply going to buy X number of units off of you to keep in stock. I sell them, your drop ship them. In return for selling your product, you sell them to me at x percentage of discount. You could also consider sending me a set and I will do a complete write up with installation pictures. For the set you send me that could count as the discount spread over X number of sets sold.

You starting to get the bigger picture here? You have to retail them.

Think about this. Does a guy come door to door trying to sell you Irish Spring soap? No you go to the grocery store and you buy it as you need it and its always there. The E30 grocery stores are the retailers I mentioned above.

Thats how you do it.

Good luck with it. PM me on E30 Tech if your at all interested in what I have said.

Robert
E30 Motor Werks

[McGyver]

as soon as my new control arm, CAB and tie rod ends come in on wednesday, i'll have lots of pics up.

[newman]

A good way to advertise them would be give me a free pair and I'll put em on my RB26 build blog... I've gotten almost a million hits to date..... ;)

[thebutcher37]

freebie

Free Bump


I will be interested when I have Cash Money$$$

[txtorquemade]

Recommendation for Drop Hat Advertising

.... advertise.....

A price drop....

Bet that would get them moving....

[Matt-B]

ebay????


craigslist???

Try all your resources

[richardkeith97]

Thanks 4 all the help evryone. I need to do more advertising and work on my site alot. Also adjust the price if i can in the future. Thank you!

[richardkeith97]

The reason i cant do the group buy and i cant do it cheaper is because of the shipping that i pay to get them to me. If i had enough money to buy 50 at a time id probably be able to do it. I can only afford 15 at a time. Not enough for a good price break. Id have to do a group buy of 35 lol and thats nevr gona happen.then i could do it cheaper. So until im loaded the price is gona hafta stay.

[richardkeith97]

But idk thats gona make for a lot of pissed people who just bought one. Lol

[N2MYE30]

when the next shipment comes in i'll probably do a group buy of $80 shipped if i can get 10 buyers

:hitler:

[richardkeith97]

when the next shipment comes in i'll probably do a group buy of $80 shipped if i can get 10 buyers

[richardkeith97]

looks like i got alot more sites to join. i've got r3v and e30teh and i just did bimmerforums. thanks everyone

[N2MYE30]

r3v, e30tech, bimmerforums, m42club, socale30, e46fanatics, bimmerboard, e30zone, mye28


not all are primarily e30 sites, but getting the word everywhere is good because lots of them own e30s etc.

I was gonna say those, but Im not gonna do all the work for him. ;)

[FredK]

Machining aluminum is easy and cheap. I really bet you could sell 2 for 100 bucks and turn a profit.

If you had a ready supply of scrap, yes, I bet you could. You'd be working for wages less than Jethro, though. Those would have to be rather large chunks of aluminum.