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Top Tips to Maximise Your Shoot Sales This Season

Grab our members attention - enhance your shoot entry in just 2 minutes - FREE!
Advertise your shoot with us in the shooting press- from just £50 per advert - NEW!
Talk to us about how to improve your shoot and its finances - FREE!
Highlight, in our biweekly eNewsletter, what your shoot has to offer - just £250
Become a “Featured Shoot” on the GunsOnPegs Home page - just £99 per month
Join us on our stand at the CLA Game Fair – £500
Advertise your last minute availability– from £150
Testimonials - Ask your regular guns to write a testimonial - FREE!
Feature your shoot on GunsOnPegs TV & YouTube - £750 (+ Hosting)

1. Grab our members attention

Enhance your shoot entry in just 2 minutes - FREE!

Step 1 - Posting a Shoot on the site

Visit Your Locations page to enter all the details of your shoot.
Enter as much information as is possible about the shoot. For example, its area and size, the land, acreage shot over, topography, how the day is structured, the hospitality arrangements, local accommodation etc. The more detail you enter the more likely a sale. (Have a look at other entries as a guide.)
You can add up to 5 photographs of the shoot. These help enormously with sales. If you have any difficulty entering or resizing them, send them to us and we will upload them.
Do not enter any email addresses or phone numbers as these will be removed. GunsOnPegs is an email based system and we do not wish you to receive unsolicited calls.

Step 2 - Posting your availability on the site (very important!)

Go to Your Events page, (an “Event” is a day’s shooting available), where you will be invited to enter a new event or update an existing event for the location(s) you have entered
Use the online form to enter details of your event - this will be used to create your Shooting Availability listing.
If you have more than one day to sell, you can use the copy function on Your Events page which will allow you to post multiple days with different dates.
Even if you have spaces for just a few guns, you need to enter these as “Events”.
The Event description box can be used to include all sorts of additional information. For example, you can say various bag sizes are available, you can explain your pricing further and you can say the day of the shoot can be varied within the week. (Please make sure you delete any entries that have been sold).
The system does require you to enter the bag size, number of guns shooting and available and the price per gun. As stated above, the description box can be used to state if these parameters are variable. For example, if less guns wish to shoot you should enter the price of the day and the cost per bird.
Additionally to entering Events, if you wish to attract new Syndicate members, you can place an advert in the “Syndicates” section. This has been very successful in bringing in new members for a huge number of shoots.

Step 3 - Check your 'profile score'

We have added a profile score feature which gives your entry on GunsOnPegs a score out of 100 as shoots with more information and greater detail are more likely to receive enquiries. By clicking on the score which can be found on Your Locations page or on the Find a Shoot page, it will tell you where you have scored points and how to improve your entry. We suggest that you try to score at least 85/100 if you have days available to sell.

Step 4 - Testimonials

Asking any of your regular guns to enter a testimonial assists sales considerably. It provides potential purchasers with confidence. To enter a testimonial, one needs to be a member of GunsOnPegs. To provide one, go to the “Find a Shoot” section and select your shoot and follow the on-screen instructions. (Shoot Owners will always receive a copy of any testimonial before it’s displayed, so you can be sure that no comments will appear without your approval.)

Contact with Member Guns

You will receive messages by email from GunsOnPegs when a member gun expresses interest in one of your events
The email will invite you to contact the member to discuss/conclude the sale. It will contain the Gun's contact details, their query and their shooting profile showing their skill and experience level.
Answer any enquiry promptly!

Email or call: 0207 491 1363

2. NEW - Advertise your shoot with us in the shooting press – from just £50 per advert

This is an example of our latest advert in The Field, we will be placing these adverts across the shooting press during the season. For each advert the cost is £50 and discounts are available for multiple issues.

Be part of the UK Shoot Guide in the Shooting Gazette & ShootingUK - just £90

Your shoot can be included in the monthly UK Shoot Guide feature in the Shooting Gazette magazine. You will also appear on the Shooting UK website with a link back to your venue page on GunsOnPegs. Email or call: 0207 491 1363

3. Talk to us about how to improve your shoot and its finances – FREE!

Smiths Gore and GunsOnPegs can offer all shoot owners practical advice on how to improve the economics of your shoot. We plan to do some regional seminars and we can also provide individual shoots with consultancy advice.

Saffery Champness can assist in all matters concerning estate management and Douglas Gordon is widely regarded as the industry’s leading expert on VAT in shooting.

GunsOnPegs has partnerships with leading companies such as Kings, Marsdens, JCB, Churches of Bures, Bettws Hall Game Farm and many more. By being registered with GunsOnPegs as a Shoot Owner we are able to keep you up to date with all the latest developments in our industry and special GunsOnPegs Shoot Owner offers.

Email or call: 0207 491 1363

4. Highlight, in our biweekly eNewsletter, what your shoot has to offer – just £200

We offer the service of including your shoot in our bi-weekly emails to all our membership. For £200 +VAT for 50 words and £50 +VAT for every 50 words thereafter, we would feature your shoot with up to 4 others in the email to our database currently standing at nearly 26,000 members.

An example of a Member newsletter containing shoots can be seen by clicking here. Email or call: 0207 491 1363

5. Become a “Featured Shoot” on the GunsOnPegs Home page - just £99 per month

List your Shoot on the Home page of the GunsOnPegs website. Our Home Page gains over ½ million page impression per annum and is an extremely powerful method of highlighting your shoot. A month’s exposure is visible to more than 30,000 unique visitors to this page. A maximum of 5 shoots will be featured each month. Email or call: 0207 491 1363

6. Join us on our stand at the CLA GameFair – £500

The CLA Gamefair saw 140,000 visitors coming through the gates in 2011, we had a stand overlooking Blenheim palace and we invited a number of choice shoots to join us for the opportunity to promote themselves at an affordable cost. It was a huge success but be aware space is limited so if you want to join us in a key location and get the opportunity to speak people looking to shoot then get in touch now! Email or call: 0207 491 1363

7. Advertise your last minute availability – from £50

We can provide targeted emails to those Members that are located within either a 25 or 50 mile radius of your shoot or even further if you like. We will enter your postcode and send the offer directly to those Members in the chosen targeted area for £50 per 500 members.

This offer is only available for genuine offers/discounts that are available within the next 14 days. We will not feature an offer unless there is more than a 25% reduction from your advertised price.

We recognise that most shoots do not wish to be seen discounting last minute days or guns. However adverts in this section can be written in such a way as to not identify the specific shoot. This at least enables you to generate some revenue rather than nothing.

COMING SOON - The last guns in the line or that last available day can make the difference between either making a profit or breaking even or a loss. Advertise those gaps on GunsOnPegs “last minute availability” section from just £50 per advert. Email or call: 0207 491 1363

8. Testimonials - Ask your regular guns to write a recommendation – FREE!

Asking any of your regular guns to enter a testimonial assists sales considerably. It provides potential purchasers with confidence. To enter a testimonial, one needs to be a member of GunsOnPegs.

To provide one, go to the “Find a Shoot” section and select your shoot and follow the on-screen instructions. (Shoot Owners will always receive a copy of any testimonial before it’s displayed, so you can be sure that no comments will appear without your approval). Email or call: 0207 491 1363

9. Feature your shoot on GunsOnPegs TV & YouTube – £750 (+ Hosting)

GunsOnPegs in partnership with Fieldsports TV can produce a fantastic podcast of your shoot and we will broadcast it on our website and via Youtube. We have already produced a number of these podcasts and you can review any number on GunsOnPegs TV.

Arriving at the start of your day we will film a full days shooting, including your hospitality arrangements, and then produce up to a seven minute podcast for your review. You will have the opportunity to edit the content before it is uploaded.

The podcast will appear on GunsOnPegs TV, your shoot venue page and on your own website, it is yours to use for ever more! There is an annual fee for hosting of £295 p.a. on GunsOnPegs.

Current podcasts of shoots can be seen on GunsOnPegsTV by clicking here. Email or call: 0207 491 1363

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