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Big Daddy Scents is a  up and coming deer scent company out of Oblong, Illinois. Their products range from deer urine to scent elimination. JD Sharrett of Big Daddy Scents took time out of his schedule to grant me a short interview. 1. How and When was BDS started?  Well, Big Daddy Scents, was formed [...]

Track Em‘ sells a blood tracking agent for hunters or to be used by law enforcement. The agent creates a reaction with blood to make it glow in the dark, even blood that is not visible to the naked eye, great for the color blind. The blood tracking agent comes in hermetically sealed foil packets [...]

IS Outdoors Magazine is one of our favorite magazines here at FieldJournals.  Someday, I hope they come out with a slick iPad app.  The content of the magazine is right up there with other leading outdoors magazines.  Enjoy! IS Outdoors Magazine is one of the first all digital nationwide hunting and fishing publications designed specifically [...]

Field & Stream has nailed the use of social media with their Rut Report.  Field & Stream has created a heat map based on user feedback about the deer rut, obtained through their Facebook page, with 13,000+ participants.  To date, this is the best use of social media we have witnessed from any hunting business!  Simply [...]

A majority of the hunting economy is powered by small businesses.  These small businesses have limited budgets for marketing their products.  Social media is a great alternative to marketing your business or product.  Here’s a great presentation on how small businesses utilize social media to help their business grow.  A lot of the techniques used [...]

There is no perfect hunting organization out there today; at least in my opinion.  I would like to change that with your help.  I’m looking to create a hunting organization that provides exclusive benefits to its members.  Here is a list of what I was thinking as far as exclusive benefits: member discounts to stores [...]

Over the course of the last few years, we have seen hunting social networks pop almost every day.  Each network consisted of the same features and functionality.  In the early days of hunting social networks, forums and chat rooms dominated the web sphere.  Then we moved into whitelabel social networks like Ning and KickApps.  Everyone [...]

Earlier this week, we wrote a post on how hunting businesses should be using Google Alerts.  In addition to using Google Alerts, hunting businesses should also be using a product called Social Mention.  Social Mention tracks the real-time web for mentions of your brand (ie Twitter, Facebook statuses, FriendFeed, Digg, etc).   Visit their homepage and [...]

Hunters Connect series connects hunters with hunting businesses and hunting websites . If you would like to have your business/website considered for inclusion, see details here. Website Name: Becky Lou Outdoors           Website URL: http://www.beckylououtdoors.com Interview With: Becky Lou Lacock Quick Overview: As a “Late Outdoor Bloomer” I was encouraged to begin writing about my adventures as to [...]

If you’re looking to launch your own hunting magazine but don’t have the funds for production and delivery, you should check out DMT (Digital Magazine Technology).  One hunting magazine that uses this technology is IS Outdoors.  They do a great job with their articles and have tons of advertisers.  Here’s a little more from DMT.   [...]