Disc Golf Business

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At work tonight, a coworker and I were talking about our last trip to the local disc golf course. That developed into selling some of our unused discs on eBay. That then developed into setting up an online and possibly a local disc shop. Right now we're both pretty excited about the idea and we want to see how far this idea could go.

So I have a few, quick questions if you would answer, thank you.

1. Do you play Disc Golf/Frolf/Frisbee Golf?
2. How much would you say you spend on it monthly?
3. Why do you buy new discs (ie. Losing them in water hazards, looking for something new to try out, etc.)?
4. If you don't play Disc Golf would you be willing to try?
5. What would convince you to try Disc Golf?
6. How much would you consider spending on a starter set, just to try it a few times?
7. Assuming a website looked professional, would you consider ordering discs online? Even if the company was relatively new and unheard of?

If you have any suggestions, questions, or comments, please feel free to post them. Thanks again.

Mike
 
1. No
2. $0
3. I don't.
4. Probably not.
5. Nekid women.
6. I would spare no cost if there were nekid women involved.
7. No because I would still know that you would spare no effort in screwing me over.

In all seriousness though, I can't really say that I'd ever be interested in playing disc golf, but I suppose I'd be willing to try. But that experience would dictate whether I would want to buy any of the equipment. (what is the required equipment other than a group of people and a disc?)
I probably wouldn't spend more than $20 on any kind of starter kit. (depending on what's actually included.)
#7. I'd consider buying online and I don't really care if a company is new and unheard of as long as the product seems to be of quality and fair price. However I always seek out known reputable products, so this would be a major hurdle for you.

Good luck buddy! :)

...and no, I will not help you finance this. ;)
 
I'll ditto Boombexus above.

Here's a fine example of how to run an on-line store: www.3balls.com
It's a golf store. Real world location is 6 miles up the road from me. It's a tiny store, in the range of about 1000 square feet. It has a small display area, and small managers section. The managers are the owners/website/sales people/shippers/packers. They do it all. Accept your order, process it, package it, and ship it. I've seen them there at 6:30am and 10:30 at night. (oops...Didn't realize they'd added that much staff. When they started it was just Leigh and Alex).

Anyone that has started a successful small business will tell you, that it's fun for the first 3 weeks, it becomes a 20hour a day job for the next 15 years, and then it eases back to 12 hours a day. By 20 years, you're doing fine and it's old hat, but you still work 12 hour days.

Sounds an awful lot like being married.

Ask Div about his business venture he toyed with. Ask Boom why he hasn't started his own restaurant. Ask Magic069 how his little side business is doing. I run a small side business as well. It's building 3d computer models of buildings. I get home from an 8 hour day at the office, then sit down for another 4 to do more work. On Saturday's I work another 8 hours.

An 8 question poll is only scratching the surface.

But, Henry Ford started with an idea.

AO
 
AKA Frisbee golf.

You grab a group of friends (each with they're own frisbee) and you pick points along hte way to aim for. "Par 4 to that tree waaaaay over there"

Hence "Frisbee golf"

AO
 
It's an exciting idea, and many people try to make a hobby into a business. It's also, unfortunately, an extremely narrow market, which doesn't lend itself to growth. Alex has spoken of other difficulties very well above. I would recommend that you keep doing it informally as you have been, and see if you're still interested and still see the potential in 6 months or a year.
 
Rob, I've actually seen people play with one Champion (highest quality) disc and use it for everything. We would probably sell a good/excellent condition used Champion for this, that way it's a cheap way for the consumer (We're thinking it would be around $5-$7) to just try something out.

Oh, and 17 beautiful, nekid women say you should finance me. :D

Alex, thanks for the input. We both know that this could get to the point where we would be devoting our lives to it, but we're young and excited.

Also, the sport seems to be getting more and more popular. There are actually quite a few public parks that have Disc Golf courses in them with PDGA Baskets and Pads. You'll always see at least two to five other groups playing, and thats if your during business hours. We were playing at around 6-7pm and there were groups ahead of us and behind us. One reason we hope to do well if we did start a store front.
 
Duke, we're trying not to get too wrapped up in the idea just yet. Although we're both excited, we both know that this may not work and have already talked about just dabbling our feet in the water for a while.

P.S.O.T. I never know whether or not to just edit my previous post, or add another if another person responds while I'm making a post and posted it. Its just awkward, like finding your hand down you sisters pants.
 
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AKA Frisbee golf.

You grab a group of friends (each with they're own frisbee) and you pick points along hte way to aim for. "Par 4 to that tree waaaaay over there"

Hence "Frisbee golf"

AO
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Ahh, I've already played that with my dad, except we used horseshoes and horseshoe pits (as 'greens') instead of frisbees. Good game to kill off a half hour.
 
I have actually never heard of Disc Golf, even though I live right on a golf course and play the real sport most days of the week. It sounds pretty fun!
 
Jordan, I don't know how big it is down in Kentucka' but it seems to be blooming here. Like I said in response to Alex's post, we were playing in the afternoon and it was packed and its also pretty busy in the morning as well. There is a shop up in Ft. Collins (a decent drive from Denver) that sells a few "X-Game" like sports equipment in addition to golf discs and that section is always packed. Theres already at least three or four courses along with another being built in Colorado.

PM me if you find a course close by and want to try the sport once or twice. We can probably get you a couple of good discs for a good price. Oh god, I'm already a salesman.

Undertaker, right now we're just thinking frisbees. We're still in very prelimenary stages though.
 
Well, everything went pretty well. Wouldn't you say:

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Of course it would be better if all of those were gone and huge pile of cash was sitting there, but I just picked them up at 9am MST today.
 
Well, good luck, man! Entreprenurial spirit is where it's at.
 

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