A black and white poster from Easy Rider: Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper on their chopped Harleys.
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Chris

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Chris....from Easy Rider to theBrightStuff and the cover of the AMH! ...now that's a long and winding road...

Do you think a new thread asking peeps for their 'starting' inspiration photo would be in order?

Stephen

Good idea. There was a thread a while ago on people's fav/inspirational biking books, so why not one on pictures?
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Chris

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yep! I can remember mine, but doubt I could find the exact photo ....

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Land's End to Sydney 2009

Post your inspirational photo on the new thread....

Inspirational Photo

I'm going to have to agree with Mister Turtlehead here. Yes a links fine, and if it sounds vaguely interesting I'll click on it, and I might spend a bit of time looking about.

BUT, I'd far, far, far and away have a taster on here, a few photos, and a tiny bit of text, maybe just one highlight from a longer story, one part of a pre-existing blog copied and pasted on here, something to get me to bite. It's basic marketing to be honest, give a hint of something and people are more likely to bite.

And yes, I like the interactivity (is that even a word) of it being on a forum, of being able to ask questions of the author, make encouraging remarks, or hints, or anything, and being diverted away to a blog which I'll read on my own doesn't allow me to do that the same way. Here's a prime example.

In THIS post of the previously mentioned Romanian trip thread, Dave Ede says, "Very nice pictures of the Romania trip, in picture'30' was she like that before, during and after you had 'passed' through?". And that's OK, I scrolled back up to the top, clicked the link, clicked the link on the site and found the photo.

But how much better, how much livelier, would it have been if it had looked like this.

Then all sorts of people would have seen the picture, and some of us might then have taken it further, and gone to look at Chris's site, to see what else was on it.

It's marketing, and if you're doing a blog for anything more than your friends and family, and specifically if you've had sponsors you want to give converage and thanks to, or like Chris, you've got something you'd like to sell, then a little tiny bit of marketing is worth it. It doesn't even have to take that long, if you've written a blog post, just copy and paste it in.

And personally, if I saw this photo from the same site



I'd have been over there like a shot to find out what the story was.

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Another little point is that when you see a trip with an interesting title and you click on it and get a link it instantly pisses you off.Kind of like all the other people went to the time and trouble to post here and now this guy who didn,t even bother to post a few photos wants me to click his link.Nah I won,t bother I,ll just get straight back to one with photos.
If you check into other places with Ride Reports see how long the ones with links last.Not very long I can assure you.
Al theturtleshead

As someone who started with that process and then changed to posting direct, I can't possibly stress how accurate this information is. Although my photo gallery averages a half million page views a month, not so for the section with text--but that is likely for those pictures, WOMEN OF THE WORLD. My thread on advrider, STRIKING VIKING BUMMIN THE WORLD is currently just under two million hits which because new hits only record when a browser is closed and re-opened, that count is likely double.

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Hi Alex
I have nothing to sell.
cheers
Chris

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You are in fact Sir selling yourself to the general readership!
If you aren,t the why the big link to your web page.
If you want to get attention,you,ll have to try harder!!
Photos for example.
The Viking can do it! You,re starting to look like you,re to good for us average types!!!
Al theturtleshead

Oh and I mean this in no way as a bad thing, but you kind of do



don't you?

I think we've seen something here, different strokes for different folks. But I do feel Albert's hit the nail on the head, even if you do do your trip report on your own site, or a blog, or whatever and don't want to do a full RR on here, it's still not that hard to do a taster on here to draw people in further, and once they're in, they could well stay and read more.

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Damn amigo, you got that one right. After seeing that movie in high school, I was ablaze to ride into the sunset. A fever that never ends.

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