The rollout of the new website and animations was a success. We showed a room full of writers the Knowledge Vault concept and they were blown away, not only with the amount of information that was searchable but the animations as well as the kill shots on doves from Argentina.<\/p>\n
Our PR agency, Media Direct, does a press luncheon at the shot show and has the companies they represent assembled around the perimeter of the room with free food and drink for the writers. Go figure!<\/p>\n
After they eat, they then talk to all the manufacturers in the room. The event begins at 11:30 and ends at 1:30. At 2:15, we finally had to tell the last of the crowd we had to go and catch a plane. During the last showing of the website, Vicki and Ryan met with a representative from the International\u00a0Hunter Education Association (IHEA)\u00a0and it seems they are very interested in working with us and the KV concept. We will be presenting for an hour and a half\u00a0to the general assembly at the IHEA in\u00a0San Antonio in April.\u00a0Prospects could not be brighter for a partnership between OSP and IHEA. We will be meeting with the Texas hunter ed specialist later this month to discuss their alliance with us, as well.<\/p>\n
As with anything new or outside-of-the-box, everything you do is an experiment, and this outing at the shot show\u00a0was no exception.<\/p>\n
We were so fortunate to have Ryan Rains, the brains behind the Knowledge Vault assembly, there with us. And\u00a0one thing was obvious:\u00a0he knows a helluva lot more about what is in the KV than anyone –\u00a0including us –\u00a0because he has had to touch almost everything in it,\u00a0and we keep adding to what is there.<\/p>\n
He is getting a lot like Vicki when I say, \u201cI was thinking about\u2026\u201d He begins to flinch a little because he knows\u00a0something else is about to happen<\/i>\u00a0and it ain\u2019t gonna be inside the box! Anyway, Ryan did a polite but masterful job of keeping me on point and explaining the concept of KV. Because\u00a0as you all know, I love to share and end up making everything a learning lesson.<\/p>\n
We’re off to OK Corral in Florida and back to Houston on Monday.\u00a0Then we’re going to\u00a0Reno on Wednesday for the\u00a0SCI convention to do seminars. We’ll get\u00a0back home on\u00a0Saturday then headed to\u00a0Phoenix the next Wednesday for four days at Ben Avery. The response has been so great in both Florida and Arizona that\u00a0we are planing more dates there. Maybe even a February date in at OK Corral\u00a0due to all the shooters we turned away –\u00a0we were full 60 days out.<\/p>\n
Finally, I am still amazed at the number of people out there (even in the outdoor writing community)\u00a0who look like deer in the headlights when it hits them that you don\u2019t look down the barrel when shooting a moving object with a shotgun. Oh well…\u00a0as Vicki says, “cash flow!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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