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Anyone know where we can advertise to reach snowboarders?

2K views 31 replies 12 participants last post by  BurtonAvenger 
#1 · (Edited)
My company is SnowMotion. We are a year-round snowboard coaching company. We are the only coaching company to have a learn to ride in one day guarantee! We are trying to get the word out there to the beginners all the way to competing athletes about our brand new and innovative methods of teaching all levels on a board. If anyone has ideas of what or where to advertise we would appreciate any help.
Check us out at:
www.snowmotioneast.com
www.facebook.com/snowmotioneast.com

Thanks again for any help!
Michael Marchand
 
#12 ·
If anyone has ideas of what or where to advertise we would appreciate any help.
If it's specifically snowboarding related, and if you're willing to hang around, answer questions, and take some abuse (and there will be abuse!) then you're going about it the right way. We like to know about snowboard stuff, we just don't like drive-by's.
 
#15 ·
These are the problems I'm facing. Beginners don't know what they are going to get from a MT so they can't see why I'm better. Also price, we only offer full day privates at a slightly lower price then mts. But people don't know how much a full day lesson at the MT cost and they think well I can pay much less for an hour group lesson.
 
#16 ·
You cold sell it differently. Offer people in the city within an our to go onsite to set up their gear properly the night before or for them to come on your location to do it... Offer a shuttle service to take them up to the mtn with ou the day of lesson if the are in town... Little customer friendly shit.. Keep jbars handy for proper boot fit, extra screws, base plates.... Video tutorials... Go pros, contours or drifts for each person in the group so the get a free edit of their day learning on the mtn...
 
#25 ·
Video tutorials... Go pros, contours or drifts for each person in the group so the get a free edit of their day learning on the mtn...
That's a damned good idea. Get a vid of what you were taught so you can review it at need. One of the big problems with lessons is that you forget some of the details in a day or two.
 
#19 ·
Nobody here likes the brute force sales method. State your shit, and then show people what you know by answering questions or posting tutorials. If I wanted some lessons, id go straight to the established members here, not to you.

BTW, im sure this site would be a good place to advertise if youre willing to cough up the dough. A free first post question will only get you so far...
 
#22 ·
It is not against any rules. You hiring your coach from outside the MT is the same as renting a board from outside the MT or bringing a nanny instead of using childcare. Some mts frown upon it but others see that we bring peole to there MT. Also we have worked with our local mts to make sure we offer a different service then them.
 
#27 ·
Well, I would say throwing around a lot of solid advice around here as Snowwoolf does and get good results would go a long way to showing people you know what you are talking about and possibly go out of their way to take instruction from you. There are quite a few members on here that would pay for instruction from him if they had the opportunity.

If you teach half as well I'm sure you could get quite a few customers you didn't expect.
 
#29 ·
Here's some things. Fix your fucking website it looks like wordpress 1.3 puked all over that site. There's far better templates out there for the 60 dollar range that you could tweak to make it look better. As a snowboard site owner I wouldn't even consider working with you with your site looking that bad.

Two resorts do have policites in effect that state whether you can coach/teach/jerk a homeless guy off on their land. All Vail resorts have fees you need to pay to just coach. If they or one of the people that has paid to set this up catch you and blow you in it's automatic black listing and you can be charged with theft of services.

I know plenty of resorts that get people linking turns. It comes down to individual instructor and student.

But seriously an iphone video where the kid is half in frame not exactly going to sell me on anything nor would it sell anyone I know. If you're going to shoot a video and use Youtube as your medium to promote it pay a fucking filmer to set it up and do it right even if it is staged.
 
#31 ·
Thank you avenger I will try to fix up the site. Any help you can give will be much appreciated. That Vid was for the students fam not advertising sorry for quality. We are currently on the east and the mts we work with can see the upside of us advertising in NYC and bringing people to the sport and there MT. We have also made sure we offer a service the MT does not. We do have much better video that we will be putting a commercial together for next season.
 
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