So the other day I built myself a new website for selling and information about my builds, and I thought you guys might want to check it out. And suggestions for more content or whatever are welcome, Thank you :)
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Justin, your builds look outstanding.I am proud of the many cbg's I have built, but I hope you will feel the compliment when I tell you that I am going to step up my next stuff by incorporating some of your style. "Imitation is the highest form of praise" really means you have better ideas than I do. Hope you won't mind if I do some imitatin'. Great looking website. Damn near want too buy one myself.
Nice job on the site and guitars and some sound advice from the replies too!
Nice lookin site. The previous builds look sweet.
I hope you get the response you're looking for and sell a lot.
Maybe some sound biytes from the guitars.....
Thinks for all the input guys and I have made the changes :)
Well you seem to be serious about making some money with this, so I'll give you some frank feedback from a marketing/customer point of view.
On the FOR SALE tab you have links for "guitars I have for sale", BUT the links take the customer to your etsy page where you say 'pick a box and I'll build it" . You have just disappointed a potential sale.
Consider breaking that into 2 sections:
1) Ready to ship with links to your etsy page with completed guitars that are actually completed and ready to ship as soon as payment clears.
2) Build to order where you let the customer select options such as the box, scale length, desired tuning (GDG, DAD, GGB, etc), fretted or not, with appropriate fees for each upgrade option selected.
On the home tab you say "At this point in time all my builds are fretless, but just because it is fretless does not mean you can only use a slide, the action on each guitar is low enough for slide or fretless finger play."
Never talk down your products. it comes across as being either not competent as a builder or that you have not seriously invested in the needed tools and supplies to do the business right.
Change it to read "Hiltsbilt Cigar Box Guitars come with the action set so that they are suitable for playing with a slide and for fretless fingering." and as soon as possible do what you need to do to be able to offer fretted instruments as a build to order option (with appropriate charge for the option).
I hope this didn't come across too mean, I would really like to see this succeed for you.