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I’ve always been a fan of firearms ever since I was a kid. Recently I’ve been doing a lot of research into buying a new handgun as I recently gave my dad his Makarov back (it was on loan for the last 15 years while they were overseas).

While doing my research I came across a number of nice community forums but didn’t find anything that related to us South Carolina folks. That sparked the idea so I ran with it and the result is -

www.scguntalk.com

It’s a community forum for firearm enthusiasts that live, work, play, and shoot in South Carolina. It’s pretty sparse right now cause I’ve not done any marketing. Hopefully as word gets out it will garner some traffic and solid information.

Check it out and let me know what you think!

~Allen

I got quote in Processor Magazine today.

http://processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/P3206/28p06/28p06/28p06.asp&guid=3DF4CD49C2B343E38E9BFDFC0622529C

So check your print copies! Autographs to follow along with a book and movie deal as well.

I’m normally not a big re-poster of blog articles, etc but one I read today was pretty good. It’s by Daniel Waldschmidt, sales guru and partner at Gnoso. He talks (rants?) about e-mail and how too many times we focus on ourselves and not the customer.

Go check it out – Your email just punched me in the eye

I know for one am guilty of this from time to time. Crafting good e-mails is a skill that’s not learned overnight that’s for sure!

Since I tend to be a sporadic blogger here and on my other sites the best way to ‘find’ out what is going on is to follow me on Twitter and to add me to your network on LinkedIn. I’m a big fan of professional networking and I use LinkedIn quite a bit. So feel free to connect to me there I have also been using Twitter a good bit as it’s fast, simple, and actually pretty neat. So I tend to ‘micro-blog’ there more on a daily basis than post here. Look me up there as well.

Other than that, thanks for dropping by. See you on the webz!