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paulferrier
11/22/2009 5:48pm
11/22/2009 5:48pm
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1/20/2012 10:34am
So what's your opinion? What are you most interested in when visiting a pro team's website?
Gain more access to the pro riders?
Riding tips?
Schedule?
Results?
Team feedback on each race?
Bikes/parts for sale?
Racing setup info?
What most interests you?
For me, schedule and results can come from anywhere. So I guess find I am more interested in feedback from the riders and overall setup info.
I am helping a team with a website and want to know what everyone else is looking for.
Gain more access to the pro riders?
Riding tips?
Schedule?
Results?
Team feedback on each race?
Bikes/parts for sale?
Racing setup info?
What most interests you?
For me, schedule and results can come from anywhere. So I guess find I am more interested in feedback from the riders and overall setup info.
I am helping a team with a website and want to know what everyone else is looking for.
The Shop
Thank you for your feedback. I appreciate it!
Riding tips?
Schedule?
Results?
Team feedback on each race?
Bikes/parts for sale?
Racing setup info?
I like your ideas. Especially the Team feedback on each race. It would be cool to see video walk through of a race weekend. Show your team rig, mechanics working, race day rider prep and practice. Weekday practice leading up to a race. Some traveling pics. Not many people get to see all the cities all the towns that a rider sees. They always say how hard their schedule and travel and just say you have no idea. Well lets see it.
Then show a different view. Follow the team drivers, mechanics, shop workers and what they go through getting ready for a race. Interview a suspention or motor guy, bike assembly guy. Let them say how proud they are to be part of the team and highlight how their roll in the team. There is a lot of cool stuff you can do just by being more personal that would bring a lot of respect to your team.
Interview your sponsors, show video of your sponsors, Link to your sponsors page. Make it like they are part of your team not a logo. Give them a voice to say Hi to the fans through the rider/team they sponsor. If you show them off in a cool way, an interesting way or let them show their support or interests with the team, it would probably make it easy to secure sponsors in the future by giving them exposure that they really didn't count on getting all the while making you look more sponsorable than other teams. It would just be a cool thing to do and probably make their team support stronger by making them feel as part of the team rather than sponsor of the team.
http://www.coolairracing.com/
http://www.woodstockhonda.com.au/
Riding tips are good, but you can't do it weekly or daily
Schedule and results are obvious.
I also think that since these teams depend on sponsorship product and/or dollars and as part of that sponsorship, teams should spend more time promoting those products. Tell us why your riders, in their words, like the boots they wear or have the mechanics show us why they like a particular lube or oil or graphics and how they use it and maybe additional uses they've found for it. Think of it as mini team sponsor commercials.
Team "confessional" where during the day or post race, a team member (rider, mechanic, leadership) can say what's on their mind about the day, how the rider feels about the track or bike or problems the mechanic is having with set up that day.
People want to know the TRUE in's and out's of a day in the life of a rider and team, without the smokescreen and sugar coating
[URL]http://www.dirtbikemike.com/dbmroad.htm[/URL]
I think better sponsor integration throughout a site is key too vs just a logo.
Thank you again for the great feedback. I love this forum already.
Pit Row
Sponsorship is key. Not only is it good for the site visitors/fans, but naturally for the sponsors as well. hence the reason they shell out the dough.
Ha. It would be interesting to catch some of the internal tiffs of the team throughout the race week.
Thank you very much for taking the time to share your feedback!
http://www.andrewshort.com
I think the best feature on any pro's site was a letter to fans like Bubba does every once an a while. nice to hear it from the horse mouth before it reaches the rumor mill.
Other then that, some high quality picts of them is the second thing I look for, other then that I visit the others sites.
The pro's just don;t have time to update their own site. That why I was trying to do Andrew's. I think if pro's had a trusted fan that keep tabs on them would be the best way to maintain a pro site. Even cobra's site is not updated anymore..
WWR is a MX reality show in itself and they should tape and edit it down to good parts and then sell it for $20 at years end.
No one would be expecting network quality, but something that really shows the struggle, shit, laughter and heartbreak that really goes on with a group like that is something people would pay for, especially if it helped WWR raise funds
Be good if Vital or RacerX had weekly video teasers of crap that went on during that week, so you'll have to wait for the year end video to see all of it.
I think most any team could do this, even BBMX
People like reality and drama, not the obviously faked Kardashian shit, but someone just taping as the world goes by drama.
I'd pay $20 to see a tape of what went on at BBMX last season with Lemay's time there and Boni jumping ship to H&H....people would pay for that
Just to say,
"I am whipped. Sorry for the brief update, but I have to hit the bed. What I did today - lots of practice and an interview with VitalMX.com. Look for it! Talk to you tomorrow."
Um, yeah. Something like that.
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