Any Ideas for a shop?

NoTeefa

NoTeefa

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I need some good ideas for an already established ski shop looking to get more of the newschool market.

For example, I thought they should have a whole rack dedicated to T-shirts. Not just Siver Cartel and Orage T-shirts, but shirts from all the ski companies too, like the troublemaker t-shirt, scratch t-shirt, and all the line promodel t-shirts.

you can build a thousand bridges, but you suck one dick and your known as a cocksucker.. not a bridge builder.

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you will need,

outwear

underwear

skis

bindings

boots

pools

goggles

wax and other stuff to work on the skis with. golves

posters

vids

hats

helmets.

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all the vids available and ski magazines as well...new school ski mags..

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switchskier88: ive got a pretty bad ass wedge turn
 
get stuff other shops don't have

oakley 4frnt ect. Get word of mouth going with posters stickers free wax cheap tunes (tune ups not songs) and yea

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It is hard for shops to carry 4 Frnt b/c they have tough terms for MSRP and purchase price. That may change though.

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so far.... no help. god i hate NS. The shop already has vids from level1, poorboyz, msp, and TGR, freeze and freeskier.

What would it take for a shop to be somewhere you would want to go and hang out at?

you can build a thousand bridges, but you suck one dick and your known as a cocksucker.. not a bridge builder.

apE
 
you want people to hang out at the shop??? thats fuckin sick i usually get kicked out cuz im in my ski gear they think im stealing stuff.

i was going to go for a quad daffy but i was like, why huck? -mommy
 
If you want people to chill there, you need like an entire section where there is a TV set up with numerous DVDs of this season and seasons past and comfy chairs (not couches). Around the chairs there should be Freeskier and Freeze and Power in racks that you can just browse through. Make it a really chill place like Borders, where they basically want you to loiter.

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Shop owners typically do not want people hanging out there b/c it is intimidating for others to go inside when a bunch of local kids are loitering around and in it. But if you do want people to hang out there, throw a couple of couches inside and hold occasional workshops of 'how to' as far a buliding rails, backcountry booters, filming techniques, photo techniques, avalanche awareness, ect. Kids would have to pay a few bucks to go, but the shop would create a friendly local atmosphere and solid rep. Then there is the obvious like play cool music and show videos in the store.

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Music dude, have good music playing and vids playing on TVs set up. See if you can a pro to come visit for a day to sign autographs and chill, usually you can get someone who is in the area, and advertise for it. Word of mouth works best. Organize the store so it isnt so old fashioned oriented. ie put up posters, don't put racks of columbia and northface in the middle of room, instead put Oakley and Orage in the center. Use new school skis for shelf racks. sell stickers for cheap under the glass counters. A local ski shop around here bought a PS2 and had that hooked up to TV with some couches, that brought in a surprising amount of business.

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Thanks, I appreciate that, The workshop thing is a really good idea.

you can build a thousand bridges, but you suck one dick and your known as a cocksucker.. not a bridge builder.

apE
 
set up a jib right outside the shop like freds freeride.

have hot girls work there (in the newschool section)

have alot of stickers all over the place, and have all of them in stock in the counter, so u see a sticker and your like 'wow gimme that sticker', and they sell it right there. basically sell alot of stickers.

have rap playing in speakers.

lots of chairs and a vending machine

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If you want to gain more clients, you could invest on a publicity. Investing on a newspaper or radio publicity (depending on the size of the store) could be a good idea to gain regular clients, but maybe your city is too big and it would be too expensive.

Or you could have a sale and make huge profits, but you need to be sure that it will pay off or you could lose money.

But if you want to make the shop more original, you could have a '1 year party' or something like that, and invite a few pros (again, I don't know how big and where your shop is), or you could make deals with the smaller local film companies to put up their films for lower prices and be the only one in town to own them.

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setup a jib outside and let kids use it in the winter

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dood you need to make it a hang out, maybe offer in a corner like some sort of coffee shop, ya it will take money and renovations but imagine you go to your local ski shop and chill, there's no pressure to buy anything, its the hang out, you have nice couches a tv or goin with vids playin or a ps2 or xbox hooked up, stuff like that to make it a comfortable pressure free spot, you wanna make it a hang out, people will come i garauntee and your sales will go up

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ya and like said before awesome tunes, and clinics, what we have at our shop is a couple rails outside for some jibs, stuff like that

GO FLAMES!!
 
In washington the urban area are typically at sea level and dont get any snow except for maybe one little storm a year, so the whole jib out front thing wont happen. Also insurance on something like that would make it not worthwhile.

you can build a thousand bridges, but you suck one dick and your known as a cocksucker.. not a bridge builder.

apE
 
our shop is on our lodge....and its the most no accrptive place to us locals loitering...they have couches and a tv...but get really angry if u stay there for 10 minutes and dont buy anything

Brian
 
all the pimp shit. videos tons of oakley stuff everything

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The best way to improve your ski shop is to move it to Vancouver and hire me. Now.

If I had a shop with a TV showing ski movies and reasonable comfortable seating near me, I'd probably spend a fair amount of time there. Oh, and have a wireless hub there, as all the coffee shops will soon. Coffee shops are a big hangout place, at least among people I know. what do they have... seating and food. if you have seating and TV, they will come. And it only has to take up a corner of the place.

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jus tell all the pnw kids about it and we'll hang out. come on we have no life. we'll need a bouncer like nick jones or something to keep the tards out.

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The Couch/TV is a good idea. The lacrosse store by me has a couch and TV setup so you can just chill and watch games. There are always people there.

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put in a foosball table in right next to the couch and tv/dvd/and and an xbox or ps2. dont make the walls all nice lokoing. i say make them grungy... plywood and street signs.

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^It's a shop, not a community centre.

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In a haze

A stormy haze

I’ll be around

I’ll be loving you

Always

Always

Here I am

And I’ll take my time

Here I am

And I’ll wait in line

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Always...
 
i went to a skateshop with that setup and the kids working there were skating around the store. it was sick. unfortunatly it had shit location and didnt last long.

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are we talking about sturtevants? just tell them to stick to the race scene and selling shit to eastside fucks...

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hey fuck you erich, i'm one of those eastside fucks that they sell shit to

you can build a thousand bridges, but you suck one dick and your known as a cocksucker.. not a bridge builder.

apE
 
ill come .... and u should have those sloppy ass racer arcade games.. and pac man.. every one loves pac man... but not miss pac man cas miss sucks cock

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Matty Jeronimo: maybe he will give us magic fairy dust

Matty Jeronimo: skiing fairy dust of course
 
Proper customer service goes a long way into making people want to buy at your shop. That means staff that knows their shit and that appreciates the unique needs and wants of a 'newschool' buyer. Then you get a wide selection of decent product, and toss in the hard to find stuff. Get people in by being what your competition isn't, i.e. focused on freeskiing. How do you do that? 'Easy': sponsor local area events. Contests, jib sessions, etc.

Get someone to design a decent looking shop shirt, and then sell it for cheap, much like D-Structure does. Basically, make your shit so cool that people are willing to PAY YOU to advertise your shop.

Then, when you're done all that, take a look at the physical layout of your shop. Make it clean, easy to understand, and conducive to making people want to 'hang out'. A couch, a couple of TVs, and a PS2 or Xbox and a few shitty magazines ought to do the trick. Once you have that, surround that area with a wide selection of cheaper, 'impulse buy' goods. Magazines, wax, those multi-tools that turn into pipes, and some cheap clothing should be enough to get some sales. You'll find that once idiots buy one thing, they'll consider another purchase, and so on.

One last thing. If you're nice, you'll consider a either a fridge filled with cheap, healthy drinks, Red Bull, or an espresso machine($1 for single shots, $1.50 for doubles) for your 'guests'. They'll buy a drink, 'hang out', and then end up buying product. Or at least those 'impulse buys' that you so carefully placed by your 'hang out' area.

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jib this just owned the fuc kin world,, good juob... yeah but get some sweet oldschool vintage coke fridge... thats classey and have like old skis as like tables and chairs.. and such.. and get posters sigend by pros... and never froget..... .... gum... never underestamat gum...

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Matty Jeronimo: maybe he will give us magic fairy dust

Matty Jeronimo: skiing fairy dust of course
 
It'd be hard, but a good thing to help promote the shop would be a sick ass computer with editing programs like Adobe Photoshop and movie ones as well...then have a minimum of one staff member learn to use them well and allow kids to come in and get their footage edited or make posters...this would be prime if you could somehow find a cheap way to print posters nearby

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Have them install a little cappuccino bar and selling newschool stickers is key, surprisingly you can make a lot of profit off them.

patj
 
^No kidding. I need stickers, but I have no reliable source for them.

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In a haze

A stormy haze

I’ll be around

I’ll be loving you

Always

Always

Here I am

And I’ll take my time

Here I am

And I’ll wait in line

Always

Always...
 
i still think its a good idea to have alot of stickers all over the place, and have all of them in stock in the counter, so u see a sticker and your like 'wow gimme that sticker', and they sell it right there.

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You might be able to sucker people into buying stickers once. But certainly not twice. Solution? Give stickers.

Freezy deletes all my posts because he doesn't like me, so I suggest you message him to make him stop.
 
Enxpansion on that solution: Give JD stickers.

...now. gimme.

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In a haze

A stormy haze

I’ll be around

I’ll be loving you

Always

Always

Here I am

And I’ll take my time

Here I am

And I’ll wait in line

Always

Always...
 
Stickers can also cause kids to visit more, because of their inexpensive qualities they don't think twice about stopping buy and getting one, which leads to more buying. Our local skate shop works this way.

patj
 
uh, have some older videos playing. like happydayz and shit. if you do show the newer movies, just play sections from it, not the whole thing.

pinktigers

 
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Matty Jeronimo: maybe he will give us magic fairy dust

Matty Jeronimo: skiing fairy dust of course
 
what i meant to say was...

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instant sales!

pinktigers

 
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