New wood pellet manufacturer seeks your input!

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PelletMaker

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Jul 30, 2009
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Northeast US
We are a new pellet manufacturer and will begin production in early 2010.

We would love to get a clear understanding of what’s most important to wood pellet users before we go into production.

We have put together a brief on line survey that can be accessed at:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=25bRGGfO7VNcztNXzdfhhA_3d_3d

It will take less than five minutes to complete.

Input from new both new pellet users and old pros will be greatly appreciated.

At the current time, we cannot tell you who we are or where we are located because our state wants to control the “Big announcement” of the new plant and the new green jobs. Sorry for not being able to share our details but I’m sure you understand.

Thanks so much for your help!
 
Filled in the survey. This might be a good forum for you but I agree that you should contact the moderators if you plan to market and advertise here. Good luck.
 
cycloptic pendulum said:
sinnian said:
WOW ~ so many new moderators on this board! :-S

Welcome to the site Pellet Maker and good luck on your endeavor!
wonder what it take$ to be a moderator?

My guess is patience and approval of the guy who owns the board. But I'm just a guy sitting in a pew by the door. :coolsmile:
 
filled out the survey too.
There's a new pellet plant in Northeast Georgia opening this summer. Georgia has several now. One ships only to Europe, greedy SOB's.
 
I filled out the survey as well.

Is there any way that we will get to see your final results?

I would find the results very interesting and a good measure of the consumers perspective.
 
You guys are incredible. Thanks so much for all your feedback.

I especially appreciate the time that so many of you took to add your comments and suggestions.

If you are interested, I’ll be happy to summarize the results and post them here.

I’ll wait a few days to give time to anybody else who wants to share an opinion before I total up your responses.

Thanks again!
 
Pellet Maker said:
You guys are incredible. Thanks so much for all your feedback.

I especially appreciate the time that so many of you took to add your comments and suggestions.

If you are interested, I’ll be happy to summarize the results and post them here.

I’ll wait a few days to give time to anybody else who wants to share an opinion before I total up your responses.

Thanks again!

I took the survey and would be very interested in the results.
 
cycloptic pendulum said:
...my guess is they buy their way in ,with web's approval, & thereafter collect % of revenues as per agreement.

Guess again, genius. Rick
 
cycloptic pendulum said:
fossil said:
cycloptic pendulum said:
...my guess is they buy their way in ,with web's approval, & thereafter collect % of revenues as per agreement.

Guess again, genius. Rick
so whats the story ?

We're invited by the Webmaster, and there is no money exchanged either way. Simple as that. End of story. Rick
 
fossil said:
We're invited by the Webmaster, and there is no money exchanged either way. Simple as that. End of story. Rick

You mean you are doing it for free?

Oh. Never mind. :red:
 
BrotherBart said:
fossil said:
We're invited by the Webmaster, and there is no money exchanged either way. Simple as that. End of story. Rick

You mean you are doing it for free?

Oh. Never mind. :red:

That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it. :zip: Rick
 
cycloptic pendulum said:
...if so u are the saltotheearth, but maybe others have a different deal?

Perhaps. None o' my beeswax (nor yours, if I may be so bold). Rick
 
its a conspiracy!!!!!! 8-/


<chuckle> seriously pook, web asks, its not a buisness deal. i moderate other forums its just a helping hand for the webmaster in dealing with the mundane stuff so he can deal with the serious side of running his buisness
 
Yup. We free up his time so he can go sailing and searching for the best vegetarian pizza on the planet. %-P Rick
 
nuthin' wrong with dat!
 
I want to thank you again for your responses and the best wishes that so many of you shared.

I will most definitely take all of your suggestions to heart as we move forward.

Here’s a summary of how you responded on the “What’s most important to you” question.

“Price” and “Amount of heat from pellets” were tied as the most important with over half of responses rating these items as “Critical” and just about all the others rating this as “Very Important”.

“Amount of ash” was next with over 85% of you rating this as “Very Important” or “Critical”.

“Amount of fines in bag” was next, followed by “No over length pellets” then “Packaging” and finally “Pellets manufactured in an environmentally friendly manner.”

Anybody surprised by the responses? Anything in the way I wrote the questions that could have skewed your answers? As always, I value your feedback.
 
Pellet Maker said:
I want to thank you again for your responses and the best wishes that so many of you shared.


“Amount of ash” was next with over 85% of you rating this as “Very Important” or “Critical”.

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Anybody surprised by the responses? Anything in the way I wrote the questions that could have skewed your answers? As always, I value your feedback.

No big surprises in the totals but you probably have a small sample .That may not capture how very important any one thing might be for different segments of your market. For example, for me ash is very important as long as the other stuff like heat generated is good. Someone else may have more time to keep the stove clean and dump ash, so that's less important to them. What that means for your packaging, I don't know. 8-/


When you're ready to ship product, I think people here might be interested in seeing a picture of your pellet bag.
 
Stentor said:
.......When you're ready to ship product, I think people here might be interested in seeing a picture of your pellet bag.
And a SAMPLE bag of pellets for everyone that sent in an opinion. ;-P
 
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