NLU Pro Shop (Part 2)

[57_Flavors]

Curious if there is gonna be new stock or restock on putter covers?

Tie die skeleton circle mallet cover or a different black circle mallet cover specifically.

One that fits a 7.5 well.

Thanks!

[ABrownBear]

This might be a stretch, but I’d love to see the NLU store selling some non-branded items.

I think it’d be cool if y’all used your influence to become a reseller of smaller boutique golf equipment/accessory companies and help them reach a larger market of golf sickos.

[gledford10]

I could be wrong, but I think that’s kinda the point of the discount codes they occasionally offer for their partners like H&B and Rhoback.

[WIHacker]

If it’s not NLU branded, I don’t see why it’d go in the NLU store. If a smaller shop wanted to get involved with NLU they could pay to sponsor and offer a discount code like every other brand.

Shout out a specific brand or two you wish NLU would partner with.

[ABrownBear]

Golf Daddy.

I kid, but I realistically don’t have a list of smaller retailers because I’m not aware of them. I was thinking along the lines of what sentinel golf does, but maybe a little less extreme.

I’m generally just not big on a lot of branding but want to support NLU and smaller producers, so relatively plain jane stuff, even just some offerings from folks who already provide some of their products would be cool. Winston, Smathers & Branson and the like.

Or, and these admittedly might be bad examples, stuff like Burning Cart Society, Sugarloaf, Seamus.

Like I said it might be a reach but it’d be interesting what stuff the team could find that they’d want to put in there.

[Southpaw72]

Why not just cut out the middle man and buy from everyone you just named if you like them? Wouldn’t that be a win win? Seems like a headache to become a retailer for a brand you have no ties to. Not to mention if it conflicted with actual sponsors as well.

[golf4miami]

I think his point is there may be brands out there he is unaware of?

Good points made by both sides here I think. More partnerships like Stone Creek Coffee I think would be welcome.

[Conley76]

Yeah this made me think of the hand wrap stuff that I know someone on here produces and sells. Or Buckeye Bag Tags. Just small stores you’d only hear about through word of mouth, and they could get some extra exposure in the NLU store

[Southpaw72]

I think that’s the birdie tape. Now that would be cool to see the members on here like buckeye etc get some exposure.

[ChiFFI]

BirdieWrap, big fan - hands are always cracked and used to NuSkin more.

[WIHacker]

Stone Creek is who I was thinking of when I wrote my comment. If a smaller brand/retailer wants to work with NLU, they can sponsor a non-main podcast and have a referral code to direct people to their website. NLU doesn’t have SC stuff in their store. Stone Creek has NLU inspired stuff on their store.

[Walpy]

Trojan

[Conley76]

Stone Creek also has like 8 store fronts and is very successful. There are plenty of smaller shops that make good stuff people might be interested in buying who can’t afford the cost of an ad buy on a top 150 spots podcast

[WIHacker]

@ABrownBear

it’d be interesting what stuff the team could find that they’d want to put in there.

For me as a consumer of their content, anything that’s pulling them away from making content is something I’d rather not see. I don’t see why NLU should search those opportunities out when it should be the other way around

CC: @Conley76

If you think they should be open to accepting discount codes to give out free shoutouts to move traffic to smaller retailers, that’s one thing. Actively seeking out those retailers and doing the leg work, and then putting them on their own store to have to figure out a rev share thing is an entirely different thing.

[ABrownBear]

Yeah fair enough. Just a thought.

[Conley76]

@WIHacker

For me as a consumer of their content, anything that’s pulling them away from making content is something I’d rather not see

Should they stop producing all merch so they have time for more #content? This is just silly

And nobody thinks they should dedicate hours upon hours searching out small brands and hammering out complicated business deals. It was just a nice suggestion that they could maybe have a way to connect really small shops that they like to their audience.

It’s not that serious.

[meathaus]

@WIHacker

For me as a consumer of their content, anything that’s pulling them away from making content is something I’d rather not see.

[gledford10]

I also feel like the general concept of using the NLU community at large to help spread the word of other smaller or lesser known businesses or products can be, and probably is being, accomplished throughout multiple threads here. I feel like this has always been a true “if you see something, say something” community, for better or worse.

[Conley76]

100%. Still, the amount of people who listen to the pod and shop the store who would never dare set foot on here is probably extremely large

[ChickPhilA]

Fine people of the Nest. We have some FUNNNNN stuff dropping tomorrow for Nest members in advance of the Newsletter that goes out Friday.

FIRST!!

CUSTOM PRINTED RHOBACK POLOS - The Down Under! Featuring a made-for-NLU custom print of icons of Australia, Wayward Drives, and caricatures of Soly, Randy, Neil, Tron, and DJ!

A Tourist Sauce inspired YETI YONDER BOTTLE!!

KIDS MERCH!!!
Onesies and Toddler tees for the Youngest Hitters and a youth T-shirt for the slightly older Young Hitters.

We also have replen of many of our Levelwear favorites - q-zips, hoodies, t-shirts!

HAPPY SHOPPING!!!