We all work with metal in some shape or form (or are reading the group for some other reason). I assume that many of us look for machinery from time to time as proven by the many posts about what (insert generic object title here) to buy.When looking for specific info, some people ask here... Some people look in trade publications... Some people visit the net / MSC / McMaster / ThomasRegister / etc. eBay is sometimes a viable search area too since many of us look for used or low cost equipment either for kicks or sometimes just for spare parts, etc.For our company, I hit the trade publications and web sites as often as we can afford to. We also work very hard to have a high page rank and many "doors" to our business via web site(s). We are on Thomas's web "thing" as well as Zycon and a few others. Am I missing some other avenue to advertise metalworking - or in my specialized case, production drilling machinery?Would love to be able to grow the business... But want to make sure I'm not missing some great opportunity to advertise somewhere just because I don't know about it. Rather than doubling my efforts in the areas we already know are working, I'm seeking for new ideas on where to put my time and effort...So, I ask the question... Where do YOU look when you need equipment?I'm going to post this separately on a woodworking group too because we do get leads from that industry as well. However, most of the posts there are low cost items compared to what we buy... Your answers will be more relevant to me in my opinion.Regards,Joe(Sigfile removed to make sure nobody mistakes this for spam)

I would never ever consider buying new machinery, Joe. I think 99% of thisNG's audience is home shop guys like me. The entire reason we exist in thenumbers that we do is that used industrial machinery can sometimes be hadquite cheaply. I have no opinion on your company or any of your productsor business practices, but I don't think you will find Usenet to be veryproductive.GWEJoe AutoDrill wrote:

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Joe AutoDrill 21 years ago

It was a mistake. I don't EVER want to be confused with spammers so I am purposely taking my sig off this particular thread to avoid that accusation... people who really want to find me can do it via other threads where the sig is prominently shown at the bottom every time. I don't think anyone here would confuse me with spammer-trash, but one or two complaints that get you blacklisted can really hurt business...

The sites are different to get page rank under different terms. "production drilling" and "multiple spindle heads" are sometimes thought of in teh same realm, but because they are used in different arenas (CNC, lathe, fixtures on assembly lines, robot handled, etc.) we chose to make some focused sites... We have 8 or 9 up now.

It also helps with the search engine ranking since we sometimes have three different sites in the top 10. Better odds of a clickthrough.

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Good!

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Anything is helpful in this "brainstorming" session... I appreciate the thoughts and ideas!

Regards, Joe Agro, Jr.

no sig for this thread (when I remember!)

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Old Nick 21 years ago

Build and use a trebuchet????

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Joe AutoDrill 21 years ago

Cheaper to go up in the air with a freind in his small plane and throw loads of flyers out... Covers more are too...

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Bruce L. Bergman 21 years ago

Yanno, the "airplane scatter flyers" idea might work, but it's messy and you can't control the distribution pattern.

They make automatic paper folding machines to put flyers in envelopes - I wonder if they could make a folding machine that would fold them into paper airplanes in bulk?

Then people who spot them might want to track and catch them as they glide down... Oh, and use rice paper and soy ink for the flyers, so the environmentalists don't complain about the leftovers.

You could always pull a "Les Nessman" and drop domesticated turkeys out of the airplane...

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Hey, I can do sig-less, too!

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Gunner 21 years ago

Oh the inhumanity! sob......

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"Considering the events of recent years, the world has a long way to go to regain its credibility and reputation with the US." unknown

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Don Foreman 21 years ago

Disclaimer: my "business" is electronics rather than metalworking.

I puruse the trade mags and rags regularly, read the ads as much as the 20% of technical content that has any relevance to me.

Having an informative "go to" website with some "how to" content and examples of customer problems solved might help. Examples:

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These guys all have competitors of course, and they may not be lowest-cost suppliers -- but I *know* that stuff I buy from them will do what I want to do.

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Joe AutoDrill 21 years ago

Clipped some good sites and info... Thank you!

The key here is that you found their sites... I'm positioned very well on most content-related searches. However, I'm sure I'm missing some good methods to publisize and/or advertise my sites. Trade magazines work in one arena. Web promotions and/or press releases work in others. Link exchanges simply give us a bigger footprint.

I actually contacted two of those sites for some info as they had products I might be interested in on another front... So word of mouth is great too.

...Constantly looking for a new avenue of opportunity here...

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Bill Chernoff 21 years ago

what do you mean take the flyers out of the box first?

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