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BikerOrNot Meet & Greet Daytona 2009

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BikerOrNot: Now the Largest Biker Site in the USA

This is a membership distribution map of all BON members.

I am a little late in posting this news. But, it is a huge deal. The folks from Hitwise called to tell me that BikerOrNot is now ranked the largest biker site in the USA based on market share of visits. Actually, BON is now the largest site in the entire Automotive-Motorcycle industry. We finally passed Harley-Davidson to take the number one spot.

It seems almost inconceivable that less than 2 years ago BON was just and idea. An idea to take what sites like Myspace do for the general public and customize it with features built just for the biking community. The two most important applications built into BON that have made it grow so quickly are the rides and the events. BON was built from scratch. Line by line. Other biker social networks have used ‘out of the box’ software.

The Women of BikerOrNot

BikerOrNot Ranked #2 in the World

A sales rep from Hitwise called the BON office to give us a demo of their analytics package. We ran a few reports and there were some big surprises.

According to Hitwise, BikerOrNot is the second largest motorcycle site in the world — second only to Harley-Davidson.

Here is the screenshot of the report. Looks like H-D is only a bit larger than us right now.

BikerOrNot Reaches International Bikers

BikerOrNot is starting to reach bikers around the globe.

Check out the breakdown of members by country.

List of countries.

 Also, more good coverage from bloggers about BikerOrNot rapid growth.

Read it on SocialNetworkingWatch.com.

BikerOrNot in the News

Looks like those covering the biker social networking world are starting to take notice.

Check out this blog post by Rippinkitten:

http://www.rippin-kitten.com/2007/10/17/bikerornotcom-bikers-and-social-networking-pt-deux/

 We are now at 15,000+ members with over 9 million page views per month.

10,000 member milestone reached

Last week we signed up our 10,000^th member in just under 8 months from start. Our page views are humming along at around 4 million per month with 5,000 unique visitors per day. We are adding about 3,000 members a month at this time. Please. If you like what you see here please tell your friends to join.

The wonderful thing about social networks is that they get better as they grow larger. More members means more friends, more rides, more events, more bargaining power (more on this later) and more information to share. So here is what we have planned for the site:

1.       Rides. We are going to give members the ability to organize their own rides and invite other members to come along. Here is the vision: Plug your zip code into the search box and chose from 100s of rides near your home. NEVER RIDE ALONE AGAIN!

2.       Groups. Give members the ability to create groups around any subject. I can see lots of groups created around bike models. Example: The 2005 Fat Boy Owners Group. This will give you the ability to meet and communicate with other owners of the exact same bike.

3.       Forums. No social network is complete without a good forum. We are going to build ours from the ‘ground up.’ No ‘out of the box’ solution here.

Welcome to BikerOrNot — The Social Network for bikers.

Welcome to BikerOrNot — The social network just for bikers.

The purpose of this blog is to allow communication between BikerOrNot (the company) and BikerOrNot the community (that’s you!). We have long meetings with heated discussions on how to develop features. But we aren’t mind readers. Your input/feeback is what we really need to fine tune our design and features. So please. Use the comment link on this blog to tell us what we are doing right and what we are doing wrong.

Watch this page closely and you’ll get to see some of the upcoming applications/features we are building just for bikers. And as always — please tell us if we are headed in the right direction. We work for you!

BikerOrNot has an open door policy. Come and visit us if you want a behind the scenes look at the operations and development of a social networking site. Just call an hour ahead so we can clean up a bit (empty the trash). Be prepared to sit in front of a computer so we can see how you use the site.

 

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