American Angler Boats
The American Angler series runs where adventure lives. Crafted from ultra-durable, all-welded marine aluminum, American Angler boats are tough enough to carry a lifetime warranty.
No newcomer to serious boating, the American Angler started as a regional boat series built by Smokercraft, one of the most trusted names in boating. So great was the demand and distinctive the performance and styling that the American Angler earned its own identity as an entirely separate national brand.
For the past decade the American Angler series has been charting a new and exciting course in maintenance free design, versatility and strength. Now, hundreds of dealers nationwide count themselves as proud distributors and thousands of enthusiastically satisfied customers are your assurance that American Angler is completely committed to your boating experience and safety.
American Angler boats are built in one of the nation’s boating strongholds, New Paris, Indiana, and reflect nearly a half century of careful engineering and attention to detail that’s been honed over hundreds of thousands of boats and millions of customer impressions. It shows in the detail, running quality and layouts that are the product of listening to the market and responding with products that match their customer’s needs and wants perfectly.
The American Angler by Smokercraft stands as one legend creating a new legendary series of all-seasons family and fishing boats.
Fins, Feathers & Furs
Whether you are interested in a day trip for salmon and steelhead on one of Oregon’s famed rivers or the Alaskan Adventure of a lifetime on the world famous Nushagak river, they’ve got the most productive trips for your enjoyment. Wherever you go, whatever you do, their mission never changes: the trip is all about you and huge chinook and king salmon, silver and coho salmon, and summer and winter steelhead. Their goal is to have you reeling in fish until your arms fall off… and laughing every minute along the way.
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Funnelbox Production Studios
Funnelbox is a premier motion pictures studio located in historic downtown Oregon City. funnelbox offers a complete turnkey solution through our pre-production, production, and post-production services.
Celebrating over a decade of award-winning video production, funnelbox continues to grow as a collection of artists, talent, and partners. We’ve had the pleasure of working with some of the world’s greatest brands.
Photos around the office today…just for fun.
I had the camera out today taking picts of (what else) fishing lures, so I thought I would snap a few of the office just for fun.
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- BDC Advertising and Marketing, Oregon City Oregon
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- BDC front window
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- BDC Advertising and Marketing, Oregon City Oregon
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- Photo installation
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- Alex hard at work
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- Down the hall looking at Trey
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- Brainstorming session
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- Brainstorming session
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- Gary….what more can I say…web geek.
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- Graphic Dept.
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- Graphic Dept.
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- Melodi’s Computer
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- Graphic Dept.
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Dave’s Killer Bread & Pooch In The Pub
The Social Snowball
We hadn’t talked in 20 years but we picked up where we left off thanks to Facebook.
Baby-boomers like me grew up with technology — heck, we invented a lot of it. We started with punch cards that we stuck into massive main frame computers that buzzed and whirred like something out of an old Buck Rodgers movie using programs named Fortran, Cobal and Pascal. We gravitated to MS DOS as the technology changed learning lengthy codes that tested our recall and then we ran to the simplicity of Windows that required neither cards or much personal memory. So why-not Facebook?
“What have you been up to these last 20 years?” Well that answer was best left to a crisp micro-brew and a couple hours of catching up. I’ve now enjoyed a short case and several contacts from long lost friends thanks to the power of social networking.
Today, I posted a shot of a wonderful fish I’d caught on the Deschutes River. It was a fabulous fish and a great shot so I thought it worthy to share. Within minutes “oohs” and “aahs” flooded in from Alaska, New Jersey and California from people I wouldn’t have connected with otherwise. My network isn’t just the 70 or so people I’ve cultivated…it’s all those people and the people they’ve attracted — in several cases hundreds and in some even thousands. All of whom are privy to my message.
I can easily see the value of these networks.
We landed an important new account today. I don’t have the official go-ahead to share the news yet — but we will soon and when we do thousands will know about it in seconds. Hundreds will probably notice it and a couple months later the traditional media will print it and it will be old news — but still news just the same — just not as timely as these social networks we’re building.
If I was a retailer I’d be after this stuff like a fat man to a pie-eating contest. I’d grow my network fast and furious. I’d want thousands, tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands to see my tweets, twitters and blogs. This is powerful stuff that happens immediately.
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Social networking creates buzz. It’s exciting, immediate, engaging, fun and effective.
Social networking has become mainstream marketing. A celebrity sends out a tweet that he’ll be yodeling on some street corner and the next thing you know is 5,000 people are gathered on a street corner tying up traffic listening to the celebrity yodeler. Better yet, media floods to the fracas trying to be as just-in-time as the tweet which stimulates another 2,000 people to join the now mobbed celebrity yodeler.
This stuff is incredible!
I’m finding people and they’re finding me. I’m connecting and re-connecting more easily and seamlessly than I could imagine. Daily my network is growing and by this time next year it should be into the hundreds as more and more of us climb aboard this wonderful runaway train of technology.
Us boomers don’t fear it…we embrace. At times slowly. We’ve been sold a bill of goods before and understand time is precious so we squander it just like we do our precious identities. We get it though — it’s easy to understand, easy to do, easy to accept and easy to use. That’s why we’re building our LinkedIn and Plaxo accounts as well. Some of these may fall by the wayside…no worries the investment was minimal and it’s to be expected.
We finish the first beer and order a second. We’ve re-hashed a failed marriage, several perfect kids we’ve sired, dreams we had, ambitions we followed and now it’s time to talk about our fishing exploits. Nothing like sharing tales of big salmon and the prospect of future trips over a cold one…or two…or…
BDC Advertising: We’ve Moved
Agency Life…And The Beat Goes On!
At times it’s like working in a washing machine, agency business can pull you ten different directions at once. We love the jumble, it’s what gets us up every day — no two days are the same. The combination of cold calling, networking, online advertising and answering help wanted ads is working. We’re getting a good push of opportunities headed our way and continue to land new projects. As deep as we are in this economic downturn some of our clients are seeing our efforts pay dividends…it’s been pretty gratifying. One company is seeing a strong upturn in activity as we’ve preached the benefits of customer retention programs and they’ve jumped aboard. Another company is seeing a substantial increase in leads from their website as a result of an adwords program we’ve put in place. Still, another one of our clients is outselling the competition “15 to 1” because of the long-term positioning we’ve developed that has made the difference between first and second in the category pretty vast. We learned this week that BDC Advertising had been selected as the “agency of record” for the Oregon City Main Street project. We’ll take that. We also enjoyed a meeting with a prospective client that was pretty exciting. Great dialogue, sharp client, dominate product…we’d spent several hours preparing for the meeting and we were glad we did. It made for a good discussion where we brought some new ideas to the table and learned volumes about their efforts. The discussion resulted in an opportunity — a very good opportunity that we’re excited to chase.