PbNation Industry News - October

October 2008

Consumers Expect to Interact with You on PbNation. Recent study confirms consumers expect to interact with your company on social sites like PbNation. According to the findings of the 2008 Cone Business in Social Media Study, almost 60% of Americans interact with companies on a social media Web site, and one in four interact more than once per week. The survey finds that 93% of Americans believe a company should have a presence in social media, while 85% believe a company should not only be present, but should also interact with its consumers via social media. Read the rest and learn why your company should be interacting with users on social networks like PbNation.com Read more » Top Industry Manufacturers are Giving Over $1000 in Credit for You to Attend Event. Paintball Extravaganza is the industry’s exclusive wholesale-only paintball tradeshow. The paintball industry thinks your field or store’s attendance is so valuable, they are willing to pay you (in over $1,000 worth of credits) to attend the show on February 5th, 6th and 7th in Atlanta. Dye Precision, JT Sports, KEE Action Sports, Kingman Group, Planet Eclipse, Pro Caps, Smart Parts and Tippmann Sports worked to put together a credit program that will actually pay store and field owners to attend the 2009 show! Check with your sales rep for details and do not miss the most important trade show of the year. PbNation is a corporate sponsor of the Paintball Extravaganza event. Fields and Stores, help us help you! PbNation is asking for your help to get more people playing paintball on a local level. PbNation has the largest field and store listing with the most traffic on the internet. In an effort to expand the detail in those listings we are asking you for a couple minutes of your time to answer a few questions on an online survey about your field and its operations. Please follow this link and answer the questions on the survey. It’s free. If you are looking for a great way to highlight and raise the awareness of your field on the PbNation listing please click here to see our premium listings service. Save Phace Masks Save Phace, a Texas based company and leading innovator in mask technology, design and production is a new face in the paintball world. The team at Save Phace has been successfully making and delivering great masks for everyone from bass fishermen to our troops in Iraq for quite a while now. Their new Tactical Mask, exclusively designed and produced for paintball, has many features that represent firsts in the paintball industry. Take a look at some of these videos to better understand the unique features and designs of these new leading edge paintball masks. Save Phace introduces new concepts in (click below to view the videos): Design, Engineering, Lenses, Graphics and Customization.