Howdy, Richard and Jimmy here!
We’re really excited to work with you! First thing’s first though. In order for us to achieve this mission and help you out, we figure we ought to get to know and start building a relationship with each other.
We believe relationships are everything so we’d like to learn about you and your business and understand what we can do to help you out.
So to start things off, we should let you know a little about us….
Who in the heck are these guys, anyway?
Well, we’re the hosts of the TEXAS based hunting show, the Feed Bandit Podcast, where we love talking all things hunting with amazing hunters and innovative hunting businesses.
As we’ve said our mission with the podcast is to give local, small and family owned hunting businesses a platform to help them boost awareness of their innovative products and services by getting them in front of hunters just like us.
But this mission is not only the mission of the podcast but also of everything else we do via the Feed Bandit website, our blog, gear pages and our Hunter Search.
So why are we doing this?
First and foremost, we are passionate about preserving our great hunting culture.
To us that means supporting local, small and family owned hunting businesses and especially those located in small towns. Small towns contain all the rich history and culture that we desperately want to preserve.
And with everything going on right now we think you’ll agree that succeeding in our mission is more important than ever!
You see, it’s always bothered us every time we had to use a big box store simply to save time.
We know stores like yours are out there but sometimes hunters are forced to go for the convenience or familiarity that a big box store might seemingly bring.
This is due either to a lack of awareness, time to search or one reason or another.
With Feed Bandit it’s time to bring the hunting dollars back to where it all started, with You!
Coming from small family owned businesses ourselves we understand that it can be difficult at times to compete with the big box stores such as Walmart, Academy, Cabela’s, Bass Pro, Dick’s, grocery stores like HEB and now Buccee’s (wow…) for the business of hunters.
So we wanted to figure out a way to help stores like you get an upper hand in that battle.
We wanted to find a way to create a following of like minded hunters, spreading our passion for supporting local and small businesses rather than the big box hunting stores.
We feel Feed Bandit is that way.
How we want to help you out
So lets get down to brass tacks. We want to get to know you and your store by offering to:
1) Give you an absolutely free premium Founding Store profile* in our Hunter Search Tool.
2) Give you an absolutely free interview on the Feed Bandit Podcast.
Keep reading for more details on both…
1) Give you an absolutely free premium Founding Store profile* in our Hunter Search Tool.
*Offer valid for the first 20 stores after which premium profiles will be offered to stores at $49/mo.
With a store profile on the Feed Bandit Hunter Search you’ll be able to:
✔ Promote your products & services to hunters
You can advertise your location, contact information, the products you carry and the services you offer and in some cases show their current prices in our search results and on your profile page.
✔ Advertise to a targeted, high value audience
If you fall within the area in which the hunter is searching you will show up in the search results (and at the top with the priority listing offered here) so that you are always in front of the hunters that’ll be passing by your location.
✔ Gain exposure to new customers
More and more hunters now prefer to search the internet for what they need rather than call a store; on Feed Bandit you can be in front of them at all times with your detailed profile page showcasing what you have to offer (see example supplier profile page HERE).
✔ Develop a loyal customer base
Always being in front of the hunters closest to you via the search results and your profile; supplying the products and services they need creates great loyalty and repeat business.
Did you know…
Academy’s #1 selling SKU during deer season is…
Deer Corn!
As you know, more and more business and shopping is being done online and in the hunting world this is no different. So stores like yours need a better way to get in front of those potential hunting customers.
Our very unique search tool is designed specifically for hunters to find feed stores just like you online in one convenient and easy to use place!
As a couple of regular weekend warriors and dedicated amateur hunters ourselves we’ve for years spent a lot of time searching online and calling around for all the various hunting feed and supplies that we needed.
This tedious searching typically would end up taking a lot of time and it would often require us to spend a bunch of our valuable and precious weekend time going out of our way to get what it was that we needed. Or worse, we had to unfortunately settle for going to a big box store…and there’s the rub.
We thought, there had to be a better way. Well our passion kicked in and we went to work.
We built our Hunter Search as a single source that we could go to online which would show us where we could find the hunting feed and supplies we needed, when and where we needed them.
But more importantly we wanted its main mission to be to support local and small businesses rather than the big box hunting stores.
Our search is the solution, designed specifically for feed stores like you to get in front of an extremely valuable customer base, Hunters, and give you greater exposure to them for a fraction of the cost of an ad in the local paper!
Watch below to see how it works….
As you can see hunters can search in a particular area and find your store….
Search by Area
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Or they can search along the route to their land and find your store along the way….
Search by Route
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In the search you’ll have an opportunity to showcase your store and the feed and hunting supplies you have available.
Well you can do that right here with the Feed Bandit Hunter Search!
2) Give you an absolutely free interview on the Feed Bandit Podcast.
We’d record a quick 5-10 minute discussion with you covering who you guys are, where you are located, what you guys are all about and what you have to offer our hunting listeners.
This interview will not only be played during a podcast episode but it will also reside on your very own dedicated Supplier Page at feedbandit.com where you can include other detailed information about your store.
Hunters will be able to search and find your store on our website and learn all about what you have to offer.
In addition, one thing we know for sure is that to stay in front of hunters and compete against the big box stores for their business you’ve got to stay up to speed on all the latest and most innovative hunting products available to stock in your store, especially those offered by small hunting businesses.
So all we ask is to be able to send you an email every now and then when we find some amazing hunting products that you might want to consider stocking in your store in order to help keep the hunters loyal and coming back for more.
That’s really all there is to it. We really hope you’ll take us up on this offer!
Just to recap, the store profile and interview are absolutely free…we’ll set up and update your store profile for you and the only “cost” will be your time to record the interview with us.
For the interview we’ll supply you with a list of questions ahead of time and stick to the script so that we’re able to get the the most valuable information about you out to our hunters.
Again, we want to help you keep ’em loyal and coming back for more!
