Comments on: A Christmas Present for Bike Shops

By: Rick Garner

Rick Garner — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:00:00 +0000

I am a Specialized dealer and read about the social media concept in the latest newsletter. i would like to join in.

By: Jim Langley

Jim Langley — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:33:26 +0000

Thanks for the awesome primer on Facebook and Twitter and social media, Chris. A great help!

Yours in cycling,
Jim Langley

By: Chris Keam

Chris Keam — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:57:20 +0000

Thanks for the excellent primer. I’m a writer looking for ways to market my services to bike shops and your work helps me make my case. I agree 100% that the Web 2.0 holds great promise. I would add that retailers should make sure their bike shop is ‘geotagged’ (either on Google Maps or within the code itself). It is a marketing angle that shouldn’t be overlooked. Especially with GPS capability on the latest phones, more and more people are going to the web rather than the yellow pages and geotagging can help improve your rankings in the search results (as I understand it).

By: Fritz

Fritz — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:51:43 +0000

Hi Chris, good work on that. I’d stress that people should avoid being constantly negative or critical — you won’t get many friends that way and people will just start ignoring you.

Hope you have a great new year. We already have our news planned for April 1, and for 2009 it won’t involve Specialized

By: Carlton Reid

Carlton Reid — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:17:15 +0000

Great work, Chris.

I’ve placed your doc on Issuu.com so it call be flicked through, not just downloaded.

http://issuu.com/carltonreid/docs/social-media-for-bike-shops

I’ve also added it to the BikeBiz twitter article from November (constantly updated with new bike Tweeters):

http://tinyurl.com/biketweeters

By: Arleigh

Arleigh — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:29:39 +0000

thanks! I have downloaded, and also sent along to some other folks.