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Bart Raboin – Lucky Worm is all about an Outdoor Career
Bart Raboin, listeners he’s from Michigan’s upper peninsula just in case you’re in Florida or Key West or someplace you don’t know what the upper peninsula is. But you’ve got these guys at hunting camp and they start talking and all you can do is laugh. And I guess it’s the northern equal to talking Cajun around the campfire. Bart Raboin – Lucky Worm is all about an Outdoor Career But anyway, Bart, thanks so much for being on the show and hey, let’s just jump right into it and tell people about Lucky Worm.
Bart: Absolutely. We’re currently in a development phase with plans to launch late this summer, but what luckyworm.com will be is a social e-commerce service that really helps bridge the gap between younger generations and the outdoor industry. One of the largest problems the outdoor industry faces right now is attracting younger generations and how do you entice someone who has never known life without connected technology to enjoy the outdoors? Lucky Worm’s goal is to achieve this by building an online destination that rewards members for participating in outdoor activities. Bart Raboin – Lucky Worm is all about an Outdoor Career
By merging offline outdoor adventures with online achievements members are socially building their resume for the outdoor industry
Now as members share their outdoor experiences they raise their profile ranking. Through doing so they can achieve things like product discounts from participating brands, sponsorship’s, or maybe even pro staff opportunities and more. By merging offline outdoor adventures with online achievements members are socially building their resume for the outdoor industry. Bart Raboin – Lucky Worm is all about an Outdoor Career
Well first off, it’s fun to compete amongst your friends and your peers within the outdoor industry. But unlike other social networks you can actually earn something for the time that you spend on it. With building your resume for the outdoors you’re being recognized as an authority for your experience in one or as many outdoor activities that you choose to include in your profile. Younger generations who are desperately trying to find a career, this would help build that resume and possibly lead to a career doing something that they love. Like other social platforms, photos are a large part of the Lucky Worm experience and collections are what we call our photo albums and they could be a group of photos that you like from other members.
photos are a large part of the Lucky Worm experience
They can also be photos from your latest hunting or fishing trips. Collections can also be a group of products like a wish list, or like a gear list for an upcoming trip. One of the neat things about our collections is that you can tag products in your photos. So say you bought a duck call on our website and you took it on a hunt that was successful and you shared a photo on our platform, you can tag that product in your photo and then whenever someone else sees that photo they’ll see that tag to that product and they can go and see that product for themselves and potentially buy it.
let’s hear about a yooper hunting story.
Bart: Oh gosh, all right. Well awhile back like I mentioned earlier, I had moved down to Dallas for a few years and I was kind of far and away to get back to Upper Michigan for hunting and eventually as I worked my way back up north I finally made it back and my dad and I went and sought out one hunting season together and we’re just sitting there waiting as usual and a small fork horn came out towards the end of the night and I didn’t really want to shoot a small buck wanted to let him go and live to grow and get a little bigger so my dad was anxious he wanted me to shoot it so. And honest truth I missed it on purpose. I shot at him but I shot really low. I would rather live with my dad giving me hell than to shoot the little guy.
So that night at supper, my dad is where I get my design inspiration and my creative side and we’re sitting at the dinner table and my dad had a small piece of scrap paper and a pencil and I could see that he was drawing something. And I could see, starting to make out trees and grass and he drew a little squirrel on a stump, and then all of a sudden he drawing the tail of a deer and sort of drawing the body of a deer and he got the deer done and he leaned back and he sat down and he started drawing a big circle right on the front shoulder and started making cross hairs right where the money shot.
And he got done, he put his pencil down and he picked his piece of paper up and he looked at me and he goes, “Here, maybe this’ll help you next time you need to shoot something.” And so I still have that piece of paper and the next night I went out by myself, we have two blinds that are relatively close to each other overlooking two different areas.
Here, maybe this’ll help you next time you need to shoot something.
And he could still see where I was sitting and a small little doe came walking out and it left pretty early and I was sitting there and not seeing anything after firing a shot the night before, I didn’t think I was going to see anything again and I just looked up to the sky and I said, “Hey big guy, let me at least see something.” Not three seconds later the smallest, tiniest, scrawniest little deer came walking out and I just looked back up and I said, “That is not funny.”
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