Becoming an outfitter
02-17-2012, 06:08 PM
#1
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Southwest Ohio
Posts: 30
Becoming an outfitter
Hey everyone, sorry if this is in the wrong thread but I'm considering starting an outfitting business and would like any suggestions/advice on what it takes to become successful. Any info from you guys that have been to an outfitter would be greatly appreciated. I am in Southwest Ohio and my primary hunts will be Whitetails and Turkey. Thank you guys for any information I can get!
02-17-2012, 06:12 PM
#2
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Southwest Ohio
Posts: 30
Becoming an outfitter
Hey everyone, sorry if this is in the wrong thread but I'm considering starting an outfitting business and would like any suggestions/advice on what it takes to become successful. Any info from you guys that have been to an outfitter would be greatly appreciated. I am in Southwest Ohio and my primary hunts will be Whitetails and Turkey. Thank you guys for any information I can get!
02-18-2012, 02:32 AM
#4
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Southeast
Posts: 162
First, you take the salary you make now and reduce that by 80%. Then, you take the hours you work now and triple that. Next, you spend every dime you have saved leasing land, getting insurance, buying stands, hiring help, advertising, going to shows, reparing equipment, buying more insurance, paying a lawyer to handle your divorce, paying a doctor to treat your mental illness and alcoholism, paying a realtor to sell your house and buying more insurance. Then on week two...
If I could find my crayons, I'd write you a letter and explain why I quit the business after 20-years. To become a world famous and highly underpaid outdoor writer that use to have a drinking problem. But I belive you can be a huge success.
If I could find my crayons, I'd write you a letter and explain why I quit the business after 20-years. To become a world famous and highly underpaid outdoor writer that use to have a drinking problem. But I belive you can be a huge success.
02-18-2012, 11:04 AM
#7
Spike
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Northern Idaho
Posts: 21
When I first started considering buying my outfitting business a few years ago I called up a guy who lives about 30 minutes down the road in Montana and has been in the business all his life. I asked how business was going these days etc. The thing I remember most about the conversation was him saying "You can have a good area and be good at what you do but it is hard to compete with all the lying m*&%^$ F(*&^%s out there."
I chuckled at the time but I believe he actually summed up how you compete quite well, BE TOTALLY HONEST! I think it has always been true but with the internet age upon us you don't have anywhere you can hide from a bad reputation, not even overseas. If you don't oversell what you have and you won't ever have to worry about people cutting down your name, main complaint I hear about outfitters from my clients is that they were told things that just did not turn out to be true.
I chuckled at the time but I believe he actually summed up how you compete quite well, BE TOTALLY HONEST! I think it has always been true but with the internet age upon us you don't have anywhere you can hide from a bad reputation, not even overseas. If you don't oversell what you have and you won't ever have to worry about people cutting down your name, main complaint I hear about outfitters from my clients is that they were told things that just did not turn out to be true.