Captain Obvious

Its funny as the owner of a small marketing company I can say 99% of my clients are tradesmen who own their own business. Many times it turns out they better or just as business savvy as my white collard clients. Having worked in construction as a teenager and now attending college I have seen both sides of the story. I guess I was lucky because the truth about a college education was not hidden to me. I knew you could get a job and make money in the trades and I also knew that a college degree does little more than qualify you for a job interview and a 9-5 job if you can get it. Compared to most of you guys my small professional experience is like comparing a mountain to a mole hill (me being the mole hill). Yet as a guy who worked in the trades as an employee and is now working with them as an marketing consultant I have one suggestion for any of the kids considering trade school. If your looking to going into trade school and hope one day to own your own business I would highly recommend getting at least an associates degree in business. The fields I would recommend would be in either Marketing,Entrepreneurship, or Management. This will help you run your business down the road. So many trades people are trying to run businesses and they don't understand some basic business principles. Believe me when I say that many of my most businesses savvy clients learned what they learned about business the hard way. You can save yourself from making some costly mistakes if you understand some of the basics about running a business. No you don't need to an expert and yes you are still going to make mistakes but is something that will help you down the road

If you can't think of a million ways this would be helpful to lure makers you need help http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/this-could-be-big-abc-news/machines-creating-machines-181919022.html#more-id

What idiots! So I guess word of mouth marketing goes out the window cause they will sue you for mentioning the name of the product. From now on we can just call it the "I-will-get-sued-if-I-mention-the-name-rig". (Tammy I own the trade mark on that name) Also they have successfully made themselves look ridiculous and trashed their own brand in the process. Add that to the fact that this product was banned by B.A.S.S. so you'll get no marketing from them. Sounds like a recipe to go out of business to me. Capt.O

ANNOYING!!

There is way to much Information flying around this thread but in case you missed it here is an update From the thread titled " Better Check You Dicks" Bassin Blvd is doing just fine. crankbait2009 has local dicks and he has deiced to keep one of them. McAlpine has dicks at work. (don't we all) STL BassMan followed this threads advice & couldn't believe his eyes and can hardly contain himself... A-Jay has a great life becasue there are no dicks where he is. Sad to say the same can't be said for Clint Ford since he claims there are bigger dicks where he lives. slonezp is following the threads advice becasue he just checked his. Fat-G & piscicidal are both being laughed at by woman about this topic. If you don't find this funny it ain't your dicks you need to be checking. Capt.O

Ok from now on please put Dicks Sporting Goods in the title cause I can't stop laughing at this thread. Capt.O

You have three places in the running California, Texas, Florida One of these places has both Fork and Falcon and also is the home state of the Creme lure company and Bomber crankbaits. Also the most popular rig in bass fishing is named after this state. Problem solved! Capt.O

Captain as in captain of my own boat Obvious just to add a little humor to the name. Capt.O

Dipping works great for me

This commercial is awesome!!! http://autos.yahoo.c...-133119095.html

This looks interesting, anyone know anything about them? http://tackletour.com/reviewpowelldieselrods.html

Great bait!! put it on a 1/4 oz football head and sloooooooooooowly reel it in while maintaining bottom contact. One of my go to presentations.

I agree with you FuzzyGrub the most of the guys who pour plastics would rather play around with colors.

Here is a video about it. Since you've already tried making the molds you don't need to watch the whole thing but right at the beginning he gives the name of the glue he uses

An interesting idea. I agree though with WCCT the few times plastic has to be remelted the better. Another alternative would be just selling bottles of plastic with the coloring already added. I don't know if this would spoil the plastic or not but it might be a cool idea. You could add your coloring to a bottle of plastic so that when it came time to pour all you'd have to do is shake the bottle well then add heat it up and add your glitter and salt. The only problem with this is some guys prefer to add coloring after the heating process. Anyone know if anything bad happens if you leave coloring in plastic over a long period of time?

I do need a excuse to buy a new rifle but my wallet doesn't take excuses. Thanks guys guess I'll stick with the 270 for now

I don't care how good Bama is on paper, if they where soooooooooooooooooooooooo great they would have won their conference but they didn't. They got "voted" in they didn't play their way in.

Yep they won their conferences, did Alabama do that...Nope Sorry a loss is a loss and I don't care how good the team that beat you is. Like I said even the best team can loose to worse team on any given day. Same thing with conferences. Doesn't matter how good one conference is compared to another, you have to win those games no matter what. Bama didn't win the game against LSU hence they lost the chance to win there conference end of story. All the other conference champions might have also lost 1 game but they still won their conferences. You SEC guys love to brag about how great your conference is. Well there are two sides to that, one is that your going to have the face the fact that only 1 team can be the conference champion and only that conference champion has the right to play for a national title game. I don't care if all the other conference champs had 5 losses, if you won your conference you deserve the right to go on to bigger games Which is why we need a play off system. All the conference heads get to go again'st each other and the may the best team win. The whole idea behind a playoff is that the top teams can prove themselves by beating other top teams. Its the great equalizer because once the playoffs starts nothing you did before that matters, every team is equal to every other team. Bama was not the best team in there conference hence they didn't deserve to be in the nation title game. Any argument you make is pointless because at the end of the day Bama didn't win the right to go to a nation title game all they did was impress a lot of media guys. You are so right I did forget about them. Looks like a PLAYOFF SYSTEM would clear up this little problem. Capt.O

Hey guys I saw this on ***.com thought you might like to know Oops guess I can't tell you where the deal is, Could a moderator please delete this topic Thanks Capt.O

very good looking job for spray cans

Hey Dan did LSU looked like the belong in that game at all? And thanks for bringing that up how do we know we know which is better out of OSU, Houston, Bama, or Bosie State? Go ahead and talk about strength of scheduler and who lost to who and blah blah blah. This is sports anything can happen. Even the best teams loose games they shouldn't and one of the things that make sports great is when the little guy takes out the big guy. Think of some of the greatest moments in sports (USA vs. Russia in Olympic hockey) or (Texas Western vs. Kentucky Basketball 1966) these where truly great games because the team that had no business being there won. Sure on paper Bama was unstoppable, so where the Miami Heat in the 2011 NBA finals and look what happen. The only reason I had OSU was because with the BCS system they where the only other team who had a chance who also matched Bama's record. I just want to point out that I am taking nothing away for Bamas team or fans. I don't doubt Bama played there heart out and they beat LSU fair and square. I'm just saying that you guys got a second lease on life because some media guys voted for you, which seems like a lame way to get into a National Title game and why the BCS is ********. OSU, Houston, and Boise State won their conferences and becasue of that deserved to be the only teams eligible to play again'st LSU in a Nation Title game. Capt.O

WARNING!!! EXTREMELY ADDICTING GET STARTED AT YOUR OWN RISK Capt.O

Safe to say I will not be hunting them with an air gun Lets say for a boar within 400 lb range

My point about Bama wasn't because I didn't think the two best teams weren't playing but rather two teams from the same division where playing for a championship. I mean every other sport has it so that the best teams from each conference get to duke it out against each other a the winner gets to play for a championship. This year it was like " We will just forget about the other conferences and let the SEC have two championship games". LSU had already won the SEC championship so why make them replay it? Its like an NBA playoffs with only a western playoff series, what happen to the eastern teams? Its like having two NFC teams playing for a super bowl, what happen to the AFC? The problem wasn't that a few teams didn't get picked to play in the national championship this year, whole conferences got snubbed. So that means all those fans in that those conferences had no interest in that game what so ever. Like I said it was just plan bad all around.

Its funny I have never bought a bait because a pro used it. For me I have to see the bait first so companies that have videos of their baits in the water get my views first. The best salesman for me is BassResource.com I always check what you guys are saying about a product before buying it. Though I don't think you'll ever be able to sell me Rage Tail baits or Senkos. Capt.O