A recent commercial for a credit card wants to know, “what’s in your wallet?” What I want to know is “what’s in your gig bag?” I frequent forums like PoSoundWeb and Control Booth enough to know that this topic has been done to death, but I am coming at it from a little different angel. And just so you know, I am also approaching this particular blog from a different perspective as well. Second thing first – These blogs of mine seem to be pretty much a one way conversation. I write, you read. For this one anyway, I need a little more. For this one, when you finish reading please take a second and respond. You can either respond here on the blog site (comments at bottom), directly to me via E-mail (click on my name next to the little yellow envelope) or sing out on twitter and drop in our @avforsale so I will see your comment. If one hundred folks read this and I only get one reply, I am going to be very sad – do you want to be the one to make me sad? (I’ve learned from being a parent that guilt can be a very effective motivator.) As to the first thing – why do I want to know what you think you need to bring to show site? Because, quite frankly I want to sell you all that stuff and if I know what it is then my job becomes infinitely easier. Gary is working really hard, right now, on our soon-to-be new homepage. He is significantly changing what it will look like and how it will function. It will not only be the landing page to our company info and the link page to our auctions, it will be a brand new storefront. We have invested capital and blood (well, Gary’s anyway) to bring this new site to market. All that will be wasted effort if we load it up with the same gear everyone else is offering. We need to know what are your “must haves” and “hard to finds”. We need you, as someone interested enough in our business to stop what you were doing to read this page, to tell us what you would like to see on this new storefront. We are already set to offer some great items you should be bringing with you to the gig – ProCo audio gizmos like cough drops and direct boxes. We have Shure headphones and microphones. We even have the gig bag itself as Gator makes some really nice soft or hard sided totes. What would you like to see? It could be board tape and sharpies, 1k tone generators, multi-meters or crescent wrenches. If you were setting up a website that caters to the proaudio, video and AV market, what would you stock it with? Please let me know, or I will have to send those Vikings from that credit card commercial to your house.