bsacbob
Administrator (Retired)
- Joined
- Jul 1, 2012
- Location
- Chiang Rai
- Bikes
- Honda CRM-AR 250, Honda CRF 250-L, Suzuki V Strom XT 650 Honda XR250 Baja BMW F650GS
Ride Asia has always been open to people to advertise their business interests and has encouraged members to post their business.
The forum does not require sponsorship by way of banner adds, thanks to the generosity of kind people who want this forum to continue.
Ride Asia Motorcycle Forums does not have any affiliation to commercial venues or businesses.
At the moment Suppliers and Vendors are lumped together in one sub forum “Vendors” and when a thread opens in that forum by a business owner member, other members often contribute and in doing so diluting its content and the business owner loses control of the content and product information initially posted
Another consequence of lumping all suppliers & vendors together is that non-business owners are generously promoting a business they have found to be worth sharing and the business owner members self-promotion threads get spread further into the paging of the forum to be lost from immediate sight on the first 20!
In light of conversations with various members, the forums will change a little.
I am making new sub forum will be made for 'Biker Friendly Establishments' where owners can openly promote their own venue in their OWN thread. Thereby maintaining control of their own branding, information, specials, promotions etc.
These business owners will be the only members able to post in their own 'Biker Friendly Establishments’ thread.
However, the current Vendor forum will remain for members to share & communicate businesses they have found to be worth sharing.
Hopefully, the benefits to all members of this approach will become clear.
To give an example, "Wild Boar Riders” coffee shop & hang out could well be associated with an existing member eg Kh Nong.
Equally, (in this example) Nong should focus on posting about ride reports in ride report threads and not just self promoting their business.
Ride Asia will continue to be an open door for free advertising and would warmly welcome responses from members in how I can best support members who have business interests in SE Asia.
In short, businesses should think of it as an extension to their Facepage business page and treat it as such
Advertising on Ride Asia is and will always be FREE OF CHARGE
The forum does not require sponsorship by way of banner adds, thanks to the generosity of kind people who want this forum to continue.
Ride Asia Motorcycle Forums does not have any affiliation to commercial venues or businesses.
At the moment Suppliers and Vendors are lumped together in one sub forum “Vendors” and when a thread opens in that forum by a business owner member, other members often contribute and in doing so diluting its content and the business owner loses control of the content and product information initially posted
Another consequence of lumping all suppliers & vendors together is that non-business owners are generously promoting a business they have found to be worth sharing and the business owner members self-promotion threads get spread further into the paging of the forum to be lost from immediate sight on the first 20!
In light of conversations with various members, the forums will change a little.
I am making new sub forum will be made for 'Biker Friendly Establishments' where owners can openly promote their own venue in their OWN thread. Thereby maintaining control of their own branding, information, specials, promotions etc.
These business owners will be the only members able to post in their own 'Biker Friendly Establishments’ thread.
However, the current Vendor forum will remain for members to share & communicate businesses they have found to be worth sharing.
Hopefully, the benefits to all members of this approach will become clear.
To give an example, "Wild Boar Riders” coffee shop & hang out could well be associated with an existing member eg Kh Nong.
- Nong would sign up as a new member called Wild Boar Riders and be given a thread in the Biker Friendly Establishments forum into which they can post their own content, never to be diluted by other member posts.
- Secondly, Nong could well be posting on Thailand Ride Reports forum about a trip they did to Lampang and it may well end up back at the coffee shop and Nong could get another chance to self promote.
- Meanwhile, another member may well be posting in Thailand Ride Reports forum about a trip they did, when they enjoyed a good coffee at wild boar riders. This might attract a few thumbs up and even new posts on their thread about the taste of that coffee.
- And a generous non-business owner member may well post about Wild Boar Riders coffee shop & hang out in the Vendors forum in the way that previously existed.
Equally, (in this example) Nong should focus on posting about ride reports in ride report threads and not just self promoting their business.
Ride Asia will continue to be an open door for free advertising and would warmly welcome responses from members in how I can best support members who have business interests in SE Asia.
In short, businesses should think of it as an extension to their Facepage business page and treat it as such
Advertising on Ride Asia is and will always be FREE OF CHARGE
