I average about 700 round bales per year. I have a pretty good customer base that has bought from me for quite a few years. A lot of these people bring a new person or two each year. Some stay, some move on to someone else. Once in a while a regular leaves, but another new one replaces them soon enough. My system for years has been to wait till about the middle of December to start advertizing. By then most of my volume buyers have thier hay and for the rest of the year it's the few who buy two to ten bales a week. My advertizing costs me an average of $40.00 a month and brings me plenty of sales to cover that expense. Once I get down to enough to cover my regulars for the remeinder of the year, I stop ads and just wait to empty the barn before first cut. I like coming into first cut with at least 10 to 20 bales left over. That way I don't have my weekly regulars looking elswhere for the hay they need year round. I don't "store" hay for anyone. I don't take prepay from anyone. It's all first come first serve. And my regulars know that I will have thier hay all year every year if they keep showing up. Wait till the last minute and expect to come after a big volume and you just might be outa luck. That's the way I've been doing it for the last 5 years and it works well for me. Your milage may vary. Ron
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