any advice on advertising my drop hats?

[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..... ;)

[McGyver]

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

[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

[619E30]

Try putting it on bimmerforums

[george graves]

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.

Robert, in light of your recent action/attitudes, do you really fucking think you should be giving advice on how to appear professional?

[peerless]

Robert, in light of your recent action/attitudes, you are the last fucking person who should be giving advice on how to appear professional.

You know what, I don't need your 'fucking' attitude. I never claimed to be 'professional'. I am a hard assed, beer drinking, cigarette smoking, loud mouthed, cursing maniac. But I also happen to be a really fucking good mechanic with over 20+ years of automotive service, ASE certified, and 5 years of dedicated E30 service and happen to have the only dedicated E30 only specialty shop. I even install your products, so take a hike, go crawl under rock and fuck yourself.

I apologized for that thread, and tried to make good with it. So drop it already and quit bringing up old news.

Is the advice I just gave Mr Richard Keith unprofessional?

Is the text you so conveniently quoted unprofessional?

Did Mr Richard not ask for advice in this thread?

So take your talk somewhere else, you don't like me fine but don't go shitting on me when ever I post up on this board.

[george graves]

I've got nothing against you. As you were.

[Farbin Kaiber]

...and happen to have the only dedicated E30 only specialty shop. I even install your products, so take a hike, go crawl under rock and fuck yourself.

Are you sure you have the ONLY e30 ONLY Specialty shop in the world? Are you SURE?

-guy under rock

[Stephen]

Installing drop hats is not a hassle. Ive disassembled suspension for more trivial things..

[Farbin Kaiber]

^ Forgot gland nut?

[Stephen]

Forgot the springs..

[Farbin Kaiber]

That is not trivial.

[Stephen]

Opinion.

[FredK]

in for gb

[Fidhle007]

You know what, I don't need your 'fucking' attitude. I never claimed to be 'professional'. I am a hard assed, beer drinking, cigarette smoking, loud mouthed, cursing maniac. But I also happen to be a really fucking good mechanic with over 20+ years of automotive service, ASE certified, and 5 years of dedicated E30 service and happen to have the only dedicated E30 only specialty shop. I even install your products, so take a hike, go crawl under rock and fuck yourself.

I apologized for that thread, and tried to make good with it. So drop it already and quit bringing up old news.

Is the advice I just gave Mr Richard Keith unprofessional?

Is the text you so conveniently quoted unprofessional?

Did Mr Richard not ask for advice in this thread?

So take your talk somewhere else, you don't like me fine but don't go shitting on me when ever I post up on this board.

Wow, all that experience and yet you can't pull a strut housing without tearing a dust boot? You must not have been paying attention for 19.9 of your 20 years...