Sales Trip Recap

March 07 2010 posted by Jack

A recap of our recent sales trip adventure.

For those of you who don’t know us, we are five dudes who live, work and play together. We work towards the same goals, we live in the same house and three out of the five of us are in a band together. When it came time to take our music on the road, we knew there was no way to put all our Burro obligations on hold for that long especially since the ONLY man fit for the job of merch dude was our very own JOB. Don’t get me wrong, Matt is a badass but he can’t do it all himself. So we came up with a plan.

It made sense that as we traveled the portion of the country that we did, we were afforded the opportunity to expand our market and get some real face time with the people out there running bike shops and boutiques. People like us who are going at it on their own for something they fell very passionately about. We are so confident in the quality and superiority of our product that we wanted to make sure our potential retailers got the chance to see for themselves. So that’s what we did. And it was the best idea we ever had.

Our visit to Houston Fixed Gear

It wasn’t easy getting up every morning after playing a show and partying with new friends to go out and make sales but we love what we do and we were rewarded for our efforts. You can now find (or will very soon) Burro gear at the following retail locations:

Gnome - New Orleans, LA
Houston Fixed Gear - Houston, TX
Fast Folks - Austin, TX
Transit Bicycle Company - Dallas, TX
Halcyon Bikes - Nashville, TN
Leo Handmade Gallery - Chattanooga, TN
No Brakes - Atlanta, GA

We are also hooking up with a brand new bike shop in the Czech Republic, but more details on that later!

Meanwhile, as Chicken & Whiskey was blazing new trails, Matt was representing hard up in Richmond for NAHBS. We hear the Trick Jam went off and are excited about the new riders we’ve picked up and new deals in the works. I won’t go into the details yet but exciting things are happening in the very near future!

All in all, it was an amazing trip. We’re back home now and ready to get right back at it tomorrow. We’ll be busting our asses to get the shop operational and setting up our new retail spot. Custom orders are open again and we’ll be pounding out straps on the daily to fill the demand all you beautiful people have requested. We thank you and we love you.

Keep It Wheel!!!

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