Business

Don’t assume long-term loyalty from your customers. Follow these tips to keep them calling back.

Luring new archery customers through your doors is a weighty challenge; keeping those who arrive is critical to your success.

Firearms retailers can help protect customers by partnering with attorneys for seminars and classes.

In addition to providing outstanding service and top-notch products, archery shops should offer unique experiences customers just can’t get anywhere else.

Performance accountability is important, but proceed with caution to ensure productive discussions.

Send your customers out the door more informed, and less likely to return upset or with issues, by turning your staff into a cellular trail camera support team.

We asked three archery retailers: “Name an instance or two in which you let a customer down. What did you do to make things right again to regain their trust?”

Out West, keeping burned-out areas of public land closed long after the danger has past is a lazy, backdoor way of keeping hunters out.

Once again it’s time to reveal our Readers’ Choice Awards winners. As we’ve done for decades, we asked readers of Bowhunting World magazine to vote for their favorite hunting and archery brands. The manufacturers highlighted on the following pages were chosen as Readers’ Choice Awards winners in 54 categories.

Encourage your customers to store their firearms safely to help prevent tragedy.

Schaffer Performance Archery is more than a top-notch Minnesota-based pro shop — it also builds and supplies other retailers with some of the industry’s finest arrow rests and bowsights.

Wow your customers with an offer that’s too good to pass up.

How do you keep employees happy when they come to you excited to work in the hunting industry, only to learn that it’s almost all just work and very little hunting?

Innovation, networking and industry excellence take center stage at the 2025 ATA Show.

An Alabama blueprint for success — transforming archery from a niche hobby to an integral part of community sports culture.

Didn’t attend one of both of these trade shows in January 2025? Here’s what you missed.

We asked three archery retailers: “Is loitering a problem in your store, and how do you address it?”