Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Freedom
Isn’t Free
By
Chris Dixon
While this concept is neither new or original it is still an
active issue that we must face daily while living in a country run by a super
liberal president. We’ve heard this
old clichés before but do people actually realize there is a daily attack on
our 2nd Amendment rights and liberties by this administration. Wake up America your Freedoms are slipping
away!
The older I get the more patriotic I feel. My love of this country and my love of
liberty are completely inner-twined.
When I see an active duty solder I am compelled to shake their hand and
thank them for their services. These
folks are the front line protecting my freedom and yours. They bleed and die so that we can work where
we want to work, attend church where we want to attend, or to believe nothing
at all if that is your preference.
Our nation is running at full speed in a direction that
tries to eliminate God, morals, and liberties in every aspect of our lives. While I do believe in God, Christian morals,
and common liberties I also believe that everyone else has the right to believe
in anything they want or nothing at all.
We should fight just as hard to defend an atheist’s right not to believe
in a higher power as we do to defend a Christian’s right to believe in God.
We cannot pass a day that we do not hear liberals angrily
talking about gun control and how we need tighter gun laws. When will people understand that this is not
and has never been about guns in the hands of everyday citizens? The issue is criminals with guns. The fact is a criminal will always be able
to get a gun just like they can get drugs at many street corner inner cities.
Criminals are cowards with a gun and they will be happy to
take your freedom, your possessions, and your life if they can. If liberals get their way they will be
making us all sheep in fear of the big bad wolves of our society. This Travon Martin case just adds fuel to that
fire. The fact that he was a violent
kids with a criminal pass has been overlooked by our media and liberals in
general. The facts do not matter if
you use energy and anger behind this case to drive the agenda the liberals want
and that is a gun-free America.
There is a solution and it does work. Arm yourself America! This country needs less sheep and it needs
more sheep dogs. The sheep dog’s role
was to protect the sheep. Armed citizens
will be able to defend themselves and others around them. Almost every massacre we can remember would
have been mitigated if someone at the scene had a firearms and had killed the
bad guys.
Remembering that freedom is not free might just change the
way you view things. Edmund Burke said it best 'The only thing
necessary for the triumph of evil is for good
men to do nothing.” Will you read this blog and do nothing? I hope you will arm-up and stand up for your
freedoms and liberty. Your safety
might just depend on what you do next.
It’s a Great Time to Advertise!
By Chris Dixon
Advertising
expenses can range from 1%-30% of a business’s yearly operating budget. New companies might even budget 50% of their
operating expenses to promote a start-up business. This can quickly add up to vast amounts of
money spent on printed materials, email campaigns, PPC Ads, Radio and TV spots,
banner Ads, and so on. These expenses
can add up quickly.
If you are
lucky with an email campaign you will get a 20% view rate, 7% Click rate, and a
2% conversion rate that gets you a sale.
Snail Mail (postal mail) today is very expensive with postage stamps at
33¢-46¢ each. Direct mailers average
from 1.3-3.4% response rate. PPC Ads can
average $2-$3 per click and have a 4-5% conversion rate.
Are you
depressed yet watching all of this money getting spent with limited
results? Is there an affordable way to
advertise? If you own a firearms or
outdoor sports related business there is a super affordable option. The Conceal & Carry Network is a Rope Style
Marketing website that only charges $199.99 a year for a Platinum Business
listing.
This
Platinum Business listing can actually function with the power of some websites. Your listing can display a video, show 15+
pictures, be shared on most social media sites, receive reviews, and allows
visitors to send emails straight to you.
A super professional look for less than 55¢ a day. What form of advertising can offer you
anything close to this value?
We also offer
Classifieds, Banner Ads, Event/Class Listing, Product Showcases, and even
website building services. Getting your
company listed on our website and helping us drive clients to your listing is a
winning plan. This is likely the
smallest advertising expense your company will have with the greatest possible
return on investment.
Like the
title of this article says “It’s a Great Time to Advertise” so take a minute
and join us today.
You will be
glad you did!
Rope Marketing as a
Business Plan
By Chris Dixon
There are countless forms of marketing and many share
different names. To my knowledge the
term “Rope Marketing” is not a recognized name as I just made it up. Being a Texan from birth this sounded like a
fitting name for the topic of this article.
Merriam-Webster defines ROPE as “a large stout cord of strands of fibers or wire twisted or braided
together”. This definition matches what
I want to refer to as Rope Marketing.
There are more recognized terms
like Cross-Marketing where 2 like-minded companies work together to the mutual
benefit of both companies. This is a
great way to market and is one of my favorite tools I have used to market my
new website. It does lack a critical
component that is needed for it to be considered Rope Marketing.
Rope Marketing to me is the
idea of braiding together a large number of common themed or related business
into a single network or website. This
Rope Marketing Network has each member invite their social media followers to
check out the new marketing website where all businesses are listed. This would become an exponentially fueled new
network.
This concept has a major Achilles
heel it only works if everyone contributes and markets the idea. Most businesses are busy trying to keep what
market share they have and might not feel they have time or interest in a new
form of marketing. Several might think
that investing in marketing that does not directly support their brand is
pointless at best or futile in nature.
What would happen if you
tried? Imagine embracing this new
concept of Rope Marketing.
You take a
minute to review how your company could join this network to the mutual benefit
of all involved. You set up a
membership and invite your social media followers to check out the new website
or network. When you send out
newsletter you refer to the network. You
have a link from your website to the new network. OK now what happens?
If you are the only one that
drank the cool-aid then nothing good is coming. What if several others joined and brought
their followers with them. Your 10,000
followers join their 10,000 followers and soon this new network has 100k to 1
million followers that will also see your company on this new network. Your small initial investment now pays you
back with huge brand awareness and most likely financial gains as well.
What does this Business plan
look like to those in the Firearms Industry?
It is called Conceal & Carry Network. The concept is new and unproven but it is
built on a sound Marketing approach.
We are much stronger if we stand together and help each other grow. Our motto is “We will succeed by helping our
members succeed first!”
Join us today you will be glad
you did.
Sunday, June 16, 2013
An All-In-One Directory Site for the Firearms Industry has launched (www.concealncarry.net)
ConcealnCarry Network launches a new website …
“If
you’re a firearms enthusiast like I am, you’ve probably been all over the web
at one time looking for resources like “Where’s my closest gun range?” or
“Where can I buy firearms and ammo?” How about finding a Gunsmith or taking a
CCW or training class? Searching through everyone’s website can be tedious.”
says company founder Chris Dixon.
Finally, the Firearms industry has a new FREE resource website. Our
website is a directory of products and services for everything firearms
related.
Do
you want to find a training class near you? Our
instructors have their classes listed by dates and times. We help you get connected with your
instructor quickly and easily. Do you want to find a FFL dealer? We provide an up to date directory that
makes it easy to find the right one near you. How about finding a
Gunsmith? Accessories for your
AR15? Nearest Shooting Range? Finally. The ConcealnCarry Network helps you
find all of this on one site!
“Says
Dixon … I created this site because as I grew more
interested in the firearms industry I noticed that there wasn’t an easy way to
find anything firearms related. The
regular search engines could not easily help you find an open class near you
and none of them gave you in-depth information about the firearms
businesses. Currently anyone wanting to
take a concealed carry class to get their CCW license had to do some internet
searching to find a business close to them then make a lot of calls trying to
find an open class when they want to attend.
I decided to find a solution and that is where the ConcealednCarry
Network idea came from.”
Marketing-Rich Features
Help Bring Buyers and Sellers Together
Our
listing members are manufacturers, firearms trainers, retail business owners,
online accessory companies, gunsmiths, gun clubs owners and much more. They will benefit from a state-of-the-art
marketing system that calls visitors needs to their attention.
Visitors
simply use the interactive map or utilize our advanced search engine to find
the service, product, or training class that you offer. We encourage visitors to rate the service and
products you provide to give you important feedback.
LAUNCH SPECIAL OFFER: 50% Off first year membership on all premium
plans. Plus Gold and Platinum packages subscribers get 500 free Banner Ad
impressions. Banner Ads will also run
at 50% Off.
Some of the features our site offers
visitors:
Click to call
·
Allows
a visitor to click on a listing and upon entering in their phone number, they
will make a call to the business they clicked on. This feature requires an
affordable Twilio Account and only works in the US and Canada unless the
account is activated.
Integrated mapping
·
Business
listings are tied to Google maps so that users can easily find where you’re
located.
Advanced search features
·
Search
by any field includes searches by name, category, location, and up to 20
keywords.
Interactive features
·
Standard
implementation includes links to advertisers’ web sites, email addresses, and
dynamic map to advertiser location.
Open text search
·
You
will have the most sophisticated tool for search as opposed to drop-down
menus. You can type in exactly what you’re
looking for.
Additional Enhanced features just for
member subscribers:
GEO IP
·
Pre-load
the location of your visitors in there “where” search box of your directory.
Facebook Integrated
·
Allow
Users to share content thought Facebook, “Like” listings, and redeem and post
Deals (coupons) on their wall.
Google +
·
Integrate
your site with Google + and have your visitors share listings with others
Email Monthly Statistics to Listing Owners
·
Automatically
email monthly stats to listing owners to show them how many times their ad was
clicked and how many impressions it got in addition to other marketing
analytics.
·
Marketing and Behavior
Statistics
Understand
both marketing data as well as your listings behaviors by accessing our
analytics. Use this data to determine how to best manage your listing.
Members can upload photos and graphics to
their listings
·
Display
a graphic with each listing. Load a picture into the directory that will be
displayed together with the listing information.
Online Sign-up
·
Allows
advertisers to add their listings online and have them appear in real-time.
Mobile Users Capability
·
Our
mobile feature empowers surfers to connect from their mobile device.
Open Text Search
·
You
will have the most sophisticated tool for your customers to use for search
instead of drop-down menus, your readers can type in what they choose instead
of fixed choices.
RSS Feeds
·
Allow
our readers to have timely updates from our site so that they can know all of
the changes that are going on.
Search Engine Optimized
·
SEO
Friendly URLs, both for listings and for search queries, in addition to meta
tag and keyword management, adding keywords to a description field for each
category, as well as other factors that help boost your site’s search engine
ranking.
Back Link Builder
·
Listing owners can link
back to their website and increase site visibility. If a listing owner links to
their listing, our software will verify the link and increase the visibility of
their listing. This automated feature helps increase your site’s SEO without
emailing and calling businesses for back link requests.
Member
companies can subscribe to one of three Business Listing then choose any one of
the Event/Class and Classified Listings they wish to utilize. These membership plans will allow them to
market their products and services in a customized, inexpensive way to attract
business. The website is FREE for anyone to visit.
Business Listings Event/Class Listings Classified Listing
Silver -
FREE Silver - $59 per year Silver - $59 per year
Gold - $99 per
year Gold - $79 per year Gold - $79 per year
Platinum - $199
per year Platinum - $99 per
year Platinum $99 per year
Articles listings - $30
Banner,
feature, and other forms of Ads are available for purchase based on
impressions. Prices will range from
$3-$12 per 1000 impressions.
Check out the 2 videos at...
For
more information email Chris Dixon at chrisdxn@concealncarry.net
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