Ideas for Growing Motorgen

[Vettezuki]

The idea was simple. Create a website that was not connected to make or model, but love of cars . . . all of them. (Or at least mutual respect.)

We've been around since 2006, and while we have a fair bit of traffic and lots of lurkers, we'd really like to grow our real user base.

What kinds of things could we do to further our mission?

[Shaolin Crane]

Get all our cars running?

[89StangGuy]

Get all our cars running?

Haha! :thumbs_up:[

[Throttle Crazy]

Get some HOOTERS girls on line.:thumbs_up:

A Chevrolet dealer in AZ. had a Hooters BBQ and it was crazy how many people came. The manager told me the next day female complaint calls started coming in.:laugh:

[09sscalicobalt]

advertise on other forums like sean does he posts up on cobaltss.net theres also jbody.org and we post up the meets on our site too socalecotecs forum

[Vettezuki]

advertise on other forums like sean does he posts up on cobaltss.net theres also jbody.org and we post up the meets on our site too socalecotecs forum

We've been hitting a couple dozen boards for a while, posting up our meets. It's a little touchy promoting the events of one board on another (in some cases), but we've done ok there. Thanks for the tip on jbody.org, we'll need to review our list and see what we're missing.

[Brodom]

Make a chapter in Northern California dag nab it! Sure could use one... Motorgen is a lot like Davis Motor Sports Club (http://davismsports.com/phpBB2/index.php) but I wouldn't mind helping create something that not school affiliated. A good amount of members but they are primarilly students, A motorgen chapter up here would coinside with Davis Motor sports and probably get more members from Sac and the bay area once word gets around... just an idea anyways... :D

[Vettezuki]

Make a chapter in Northern California dag nab it! Sure could use one... Motorgen is a lot like Davis Motor Sports Club (http://davismsports.com/phpBB2/index.php) but I wouldn't mind helping create something that not school affiliated. A good amount of members but they are primarilly students, A motorgen chapter up here would coinside with Davis Motor sports and probably get more members from Sac and the bay area once word gets around... just an idea anyways... :D

We're not really a club with chapters. All those persons are certainly welcome to join MG (the idea).

To that end, we could change the "Southern California Events" section to just California, or something like that. Also, you're more than welcome to "represent" up in NorCal if you like. Give me some ideas on how you think it might work to appeal to the folks up there.

[Chuck]

For Nor Cal you got to change it to Hella Acceleration!!! :rolling:

[jedhead]

For you Hooter fans we can get a run at Hooters. The last time I went, my brother in law and I took my 15 year old nephew and my ex-wife's son with us. I bought them both a souvenir set and watched the girls tease them to death signing their T-Shirts. My ex's son had trouble looking at faces.

Bob

[Shaolin Crane]

For Nor Cal you got to change it to Hella Acceleration!!! :rolling:

LOL! Thats so true, i have a buddy up there and he uses hella like its going out of style

[blackax]

We need more motorgen stickers :p

[Vettezuki]

We need more motorgen stickers :p

I still have a fair number. I'll have them at the next meet. Thanks for the reminder. :thumbs_up:

[09sscalicobalt]

never even seen a motorgen sticker lol

[blackax]

never even seen a motorgen sticker lol

See thats not even right....what kind of ship are you running here ben :nutkick: we only joke because we love

[SkunkLookingCar]

I suppose I could post more.

[enkeivette]

You mean like, how could you get multiple friends of each member to join?! Um, piggy back on facebook.

Unlike Myspace, facebook seems to be hacker proof enough that the site will not be failing because of unwanted spam creating disinterested users. So in my opinion it is here to stay for a while.

Even on oyez.org (a site I go on with court case summaries) there is an option to like cases. You know how I write "Adam likes this" jokingly, make that a real option. When people see, that Adam likes... this post on motorgen, and that post on motorgen, they click the link on facebook and that post catches their interest... they too have something to say, and what do you know? They join motorgen.

[enkeivette]

http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2008/2008_07_582

[enkeivette]

You see, I tell my friends about Motogen, but none of them sign up. If my redneck friend were to see that Adam likes the post "Mopar sucks" or "Open carry law unconstitutional" I think it will be hard for him to resist clicking the link, reading, and signing up to offer his opinion.

[Vettezuki]

Excellent point. I'll have to check if there's a plugin for our version of vBulletin.

[enkeivette]

I still have a fair number. I'll have them at the next meet. Thanks for the reminder. :thumbs_up:

My ex told me that my motorgen sticker ruined the look of my car. She was a hater, for that reason alone she had to go. Haha.

Btw... I left the sticker on the car. :bigthumbsup:

If you want Ben, stick a white one in the mail and I'll put it on my Jeep! Free advertising in the Padres Parkade everyday!

[Shaolin Crane]

See I hate stickers, but i could deal with a motorgen license plate frame :huh:

[enkeivette]

Ben, look on my fb profile.

[Vettezuki]

Ben, look on my fb profile.

I looked but did not see.

[enkeivette]

You didn't see the corvette forum post? I'll share it with the class, might make it show up on your feed.