From the Publisher
August was a month of significant changes for the magazine
August was a month of change for us. At the urging of some of our readers, we opened up the web site so that you can now view the content without having to log in. We have installed software on the web site that allows us to track visits and page views and that gives us more information to entice businesses to advertise with us.
Speaking of advertisements, you will see more of them on the site. You, our readers have averaged about 2000 page views a month and that is a large enough number to make it beneficial for people to advertise with us. We want to thank all of our readers for making it possible for us to reach this mile stone.
Even though the content on the web site is now open to all, it is important to remember that there is a very large benefit to being a subscriber. That benefit is the monthly news letter announcing the next issue which has the schedule of events embedded within it.
I can see a trend with the magazine; it is starting to become a communication mechanism as well as an information and entertainment mechanism. This month alone we sent out three or four newsletters to our subscriber base alerting them to new events that were scheduled to happen in August when we were notified of the events after we published the August issue. We would like to think that this is a worthwhile service to our subscriber base and even more reason to subscribe to the magazine.
I did a ton of riding this month as is evidenced by the number of articles in this issue. We also have our first reader submitted content and we would encourage more clubs and organizations to do the same if they hold an event and we are not able to show up.
Another first for us this issue is the interview with Mike Duggan to fill our “People To See” section. Up until now, the articles in this section only covered clubs and organizations. I want to thank Mike for being supportive of the magazine and for making himself available to us for an interview.
September is already upon us and there are a number of events scheduled for the month of September. We hope to see you at some of them
Until then:
Ride Well and Ride Safe
Ed