Buzz Kites (Lee) said..
Great to see the maturity of the responses has improved since last season. It's a shame for Australian entrepreneurs that tall poppies are so often targeted by those who most commonly live in mediocrity.

Dude you came down off your throne to talk to us low life scum living in mediocrity, thank you. We are regular kite surfers, that love to kite (oh yeah your demographic) that tried to give advice on improving your product to better sell to your demographic. Advice that you obviously don't need because you are a tall poppy and we are living in squalor underneath our kites in rough conditions toughing it out in the burbs in mediocrity. We don't deserve your great products. Clearly they belong with princes, rulers and kings who don't kite and with the odd apiarist. Oh and I checked your new website and it is better than the old one. I could offer constructive criticism based on the mediocre demographic you are targeting, but you don't seem to cope with it very well.

Buzz Kites (Lee) said..

Saffer said..

Buzz Kites (Lee) said..
Great to see the maturity of the responses has improved since last season. It's a shame for Australian entrepreneurs that tall poppies are so often targeted by those who most commonly live in mediocrity.

I don't think people have an issue with entrepreneurs, people have an issue with entrepreneurs who don't heed good advice and think they know better. It's called arrogance and it's been the undoing of many an entrepreneurs and established companies.

As an example, I gave you some free advice on fixing your website because it didn't align to the price premium you were charging. You still haven't done that, and for a marketing manager, that's pretty dismal. Branding 101. Not expensive, high impact for a company where people typically go to the site because they haven't heard of the brand. Right now it still looks like Mum and Dad's Milk bar down the road, and that doesn't inspire confidence when buying from a brand.

But hey, ignore me, I obviously don't know what I'm talking about.

When did you last look at the web site?

Honestly, you could pick up a wordpress premium template for about $40 that is better than that, if you bought a wordpress premium subscription which is about $100 a year, you'd get it free. Same with Wix. It's either badly implemented or just a crap template. It looks like it was self implemented, which is fine if you had someone who actually knew how to do it. The problem with that is you are selling premium pricing, not mum and dad's corner kite shop pricing.

So where do I start on just the site (and I don't even run our company's website):

1. No colour consistency - Photos should be colour graded to at least look similar. They look like the came out of 20 different cameras
2. No format consistency - formats don't align, all over the place
3. Font colours are off
4. basic mistakes - A$ for some items, $ for others
5. No consistency in stock photos, on white for some, on cream for others
6. No consistency in how the graphics are tagged onto photos.
7. Missing graphics on foil page
8. please arrange test drive blocks look like they are designed for a different page

And that was just the front page. Some examples below





As a current business owner, and someone who has started multiple successful business, I hate to see people throwing money down the toilet but at the rate you are going, you will end up burning lots and you probably won't get the success you want, so I suggest you suck up the advice from whoever you can.

And I'm trying to be helpful in saying lose the arrogance, it's not doing you any favours with your potential customers.

Do these kites still exist ? Still have never even seen one....anywhere ?

causehecan said..
Theyre all still in the boot of a car coming to a beach near you

Damn! That means they are coming my way for repairs to their damn de-laminating valves.

can rebuild this thread
got the technology

amirite said..
can rebuild this thread
got the technology

you got the trollology

causehecan said..
Im willing to put $15 towards this business venture

i had a startup
before it was cool

cauncy said..

bjw said..
I miss this thread.

Ignition , are buzz bringing a wind wing out? Called the sting in bumble bee colours

And they could wear a seat harness backwards to make it true to form.

First compliment on this thread. Times are a chang'n.

bjw said..

cauncy said..

bjw said..
I miss this thread.

Ignition , are buzz bringing a wind wing out? Called the sting in bumble bee colours

And they could wear a seat harness backwards to make it true to form.

Serious question can anyone kite in a backtofront seat harness? Im trying to imagine what a jump looks like

The Buzz (Harmony) Kite:
Surprisingly I used this kite the majority of the time during my trip. It really is a do-it all kite. Easy for beginners, fun for advanced riders and tough as bullets.
- It was super easy to setup, self launch and land
- It turned super quick with the advance bridle configuration
- In strong gusty winds the kite was smooth and controllable, didn't yank me like other kites I've ridden and was super quiet (no shaking going on)
- I could fly the kite in a much large kite window thanks to it's simple de-power system (16 - 28 knots comfortably and i'm only a 70kg rider)
- When boosting it provided heaps of lift but came down gently on landing
- We did three long down-winders and I really liked the way the kite would drift. I could race towards it and it wouldn't stall like my Lithium did.
- The materials and construction are really solid. I crashed the kite pretty heavily learning some new tricks and the kite took the punishment well with no damage.
What could be improved:
- The strut inflation tubes are a small diameter so they take a little longer to inflate / deflate than my previous kites

Really??? You can do 16-28kn comfortably and it drifts?
does a standard pump piece fit in the valve?
Thanx