That sounds beautiful to me. I forgot to mention there are
distributors there too, QBP, Wilson, etc, etc.,...
The audience there is mostly bike store owners, manufacturers or
distributors. Thus the seminar would need to come at the angle of how
we can help them while they are helping us. We would need to at least
touch on:
- Why Collective Shops compliment [and not compete with] Retail Bike Stores.
a) Refer customers that don't have enough money.
b) Our bike prices fall in that vacant range between thrift stores and
new bikes.
c) Tax deductions and recycling sources for for your old parts and bikes.
- Get extra PR (Public Relations) and Goodwill Points for your Store / Company.
a) Free advertising when TV, Radio, or Newspapers report on a
mechanics' clinic, bike drive, or Kids' Earn-A-Bike class and sees
your shop or company participating or sponsoring.
- Reliable mechanic training.
a) Core Volunteers are qualified mechanics and potentially future employees.
b) Have a new employee? Send them over to volunteer and get more experience
- Cycling community
a) Community Bike Shops create community, and which causes more people to ride.
b) Set up relationships with new customers when they buy a brand new
bike, they can take a mechanics and riding class at the local
Community Bike Shop -- when they do they can get a gift certificate
back to the original Retail Bike Store. Second visits are key.
- Needs of Community Bike Shops
a) Needs.
b) How you can help.
- Examples of successful programs.
BTW, Has anyone been to the Bicycle Leadership Conference
(http://bicycleconference.org/)?
--
Sincerely,
Jonathan Morrison
Project Coordinator
Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective
2312 S. West Temple
Salt Lake City, UT 84115
w: 801-328-2453
c: 801-688-0183
www.slcbikecollective.org
On 10/5/06, Free Ride
freeride@bike-pgh.org wrote:
> > Booths are free to non-profits, so the Salt Lake City Bicycle
> > Collective is going to try and set up a table next year -- maybe even
> > do a seminar on community bike shops. But then I was thinking this
> > should be a collaborative effort of all collectives
> That's a good idea. Maybe this could be something that could be a
> working group and outcome at Bike Bike-coming up with a really great
> seminar/presentation that could be debuted at Interbike. It's a good
> argument for having the conference before Interbike, and could help
> when approaching some of these companies for donations, etc.
> -Erok Boerer
> Free Ride
> Pittsburgh, PA
>
> On Oct 5, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Jonathan Morrison wrote:
>
> > Please don't schedule Bike!Bike! 2007 over Interbike.
> >
> > I went to Interbike for the first time this year, and while I do have
> > to acknowledge the retail consumerism -- there was a beautiful
> > underbelly of resources. I talked to key people at Park, Pedros,
> > Bikes Belong and Planet Bike just to name a few. For anyone who uses
> > tools and promotes commuting, you would be crazy NOT to go.
> >
> > Booths are free to non-profits, so the Salt Lake City Bicycle
> > Collective is going to try and set up a table next year -- maybe even
> > do a seminar on community bike shops. But then I was thinking this
> > should be a collaborative effort of all collectives -- we should go in
> > numbers and demonstrate what a complimentary resource WE ARE to the
> > retail industry.
> >
> > On other notes, aside from the below wholesale messenger bags, tools,
> > and you-name-its, there was one of the largest Alley Cat races I have
> > ever seen and Critical Mass on the strip. So if you go, ignore the
> > crap and concentrate on the stuff that matters to you -- there is
> > still plenty of that.
> >
> > --
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Jonathan Morrison
> > Project Coordinator
> > Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective
> > 2312 S. West Temple
> > Salt Lake City, UT 84115
> > w: 801-328-2453
> > c: 801-688-0183
> > www.slcbikecollective.org
> >
> >
> > On 10/5/06, andy@neighborhoodbikeworks.org
> >
andy@neighborhoodbikeworks.org wrote:
> >> Dear Bovine,
> >>
> >> Don't recognize your alias so I don't know if I know you. If not,
> >> greetings from Philadelphia. Thanks for the heads up... I was even
> >> thinking of going to Interbike next year, but it is usually such a
> >> miserable experience for me that I wasn't thinking of going that
> >> much...
> >> (I hate conusmerism and Vegas in more or less equal amounts that
> >> seem to
> >> offset the fact that there are bikes there, most of which don't have
> >> electric motors)
> >>
> >> Is interbike a common destination for Bike-Bike atendees? If so,
> >> then
> >> it's obviously a bad time. Thankfully, there's more than one
> >> weekend in
> >> Sept; the first and second are not so good for us, but anything's
> >> better
> >> than August over here.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Andy
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Late September is interbike
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Andy Dyson, Executive Director
> >> Neighborhood Bike Works
> >> 3916 Locust Walk, Philadelphia PA 19104
> >> www.neighborhoodbikeworks.org
> >> (215) 386-0316
> >>
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