Photo: Just another day in the office for 3plains Interactive at B&H Outdoors. L to R (Cory Beck & Ryan Trask of 3plains Interactive/Ultimate Pheasant Hunting). 

Web Guys or Pheasant Hunters? 

I get customers, friends, acquaintances, and colleagues asking me all the time; “How in the world did you ever get into hunting since you didn’t grow up with it?”

That question is pretty easy to answer. A customer told me to go buy a gun and come on out to his lodge. The rest is history; I’m a pheasant hunter now.

Learning and Understanding the Product

Now that doesn’t mean if a customer tells me to jump off a bridge I’ll do it, but I will take the time to listen and understand their products and services. It takes time and money, but the value of the process can be very rewarding for both parties.

It’s pretty easy for us to sit in front of a computer screen, develop a customers website and launch it. However, to actually draw in pheasant hunters or better yet quality pheasant hunters and groups is another thing.

We like to take the time to learn and understand our customers product, since it can greatly enhance both of our businesses.

Adaptive Personality

Having an adaptive and open minded personality is very beneficial when it comes to working with our customers. “Techy” people (like myself) get a bad rap for being curt, rude or being a know-it-all.

Sometimes it takes that client meeting in the field and a frosty brew to break that communication barrier to understand each other to find the balance for that strong business relationship.

Have Fun

We do websites because we enjoy building them.

I’ll repeat that - We do websites. We don’t do jobs. Having a job is not very much fun.