The Rider's Phone Book

If you haven't taken Belt Drive Betty's Little Black Book for a test run - you should check it out!
http://www.beltdrivebetty.com/joomla07/index.php?option=com_sobi2&Itemid=182
We now have over 850 businesses which means I am pushing the 25% mark for data entry!
It's coming - BC is almost half finished then I'll start on Atlantic Canada and work my way to the monsters - Quebec & Ontario!

This book is going to be one great tool for we riders!

The other thing that is a wonderful tool - the new calendars!
They are wonderful - it's easy for anyone to add an event be it for a group or a business.
You just click on the plus sign for the date of your event and away you go - the best is that I get notified before it's posted so we can ensure that every bit of information is given to the rider that we can - it also helps out the person who is adding the event because the repeating dates can be a bit confusing to enter.
http://www.beltdrivebetty.com/joomla07/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=208

As you can see, every province has it's own calendar and we have a large number of events transferred from our old calendar system to this new one already!
Check them out and if you don't see your groups meeting and ride/coffee(beer) nights or a local competition event or toy run in the calendar - add it!

Have a great weekend everyone and be safe out there....
BD Betty

Slowly but surely....

Hope your Turkey Day was a good one.

This has been a rough week on some levels.

Through a whole series of Murphy's Laws striking I went from 5 people helping me to no one helping me - all in one day.

2 Days later I had 2 people volunteer to help out, so I guess we'll just see how it goes.

I have been working at transferring more event information into the new 2008 calendars and so far so good. As I'm going I am trying to contact the event coordinators and the various riding clubs to get updates on their events and group information.

If you know of an event that we haven't yet got on the calendar - please by all means enter it.

We want everyone to have the tools they need for making 2008 a great riding season.
Some of us have shorter ones than others do and we like to cram as much in as possible, so please HELP ME OUT HERE!

I have the better part of 800 businesses or 1/5th of my data in the on line phone book.
If anyone doubted my sincerity about becoming the Biker/Rider's version of a Chamber of Commerce I hope that the work that is getting done shows you how serious I am.

We need advertisers for the print version of the book....
If anyone can help out with selling phone book advertising please get in touch with me - this going it alone is kinda rough... bdbetty@gmail.com

We also need more advertisers for the newspaper and web sites - I am so busy doing data entry I have no time for sales work it seems.

Anyone willing to step up - we do pay so please contact me.

Thanks everyone and stay safe out there....

BD Betty

SNOW! Yikes

Well, yesterday morning we woke to snow here in GP...yuck!

A reminder to all, bike shops and painters/airbrushers really appreciate having their work load spread out. Jamming them up in March only puts strain on everyone. Book your appointments NOW!

Belt Drive Betty's Little Black book has just shy of 800 entries it it!

Everything I have for Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, the Yukon & NWT is now in the phone book. I start on BC today and once the west is done I start on the east.

Our events calendars are coming along, if you know of an event, a group meeting that isn't listed - add them - you have the power!

Anyway, that slave driver I work for tells me it's time to go back to more data entry so....
Have a Great Thanks Giving everyone - and take time to remember the things you ARE thankful for, like family, friends and bikes.


Love you all - stay safe out there.

BD Betty

New Event & Group Calendars for the web site!

We have just installed our new events calendar management system, it is highly searchable by event type and is broken down by province to make your event and group information easy to find.

We can now carry your Group Meetings, ride nights, breakfast meetings, Rallies, Runs and other events.

Our BC and Alberta Calendars are well under way. Please, check the calendar for your province and make sure we have the right information for your group. If we don't please send us an event correction or email me to become a provincial calendar administrator.
For all other provinces, if anyone is willing to give us a hand to get the information for your province or region added to our new calendars, please contact me at bdbetty@gmail.com

We want every riding club and every event to get the exposure they need to grow the participation of their clubs and events for 2008.

Thanks and stay safe out there....

BD Betty

Man I wonder sometimes...

I hate typing, why did I ever get myself into a business with this much data entry?

Oh well, here I am! Over 700 entries are now in the phone book as I work my way across the country.

When I get frustrated or fed up with doing that, I have been doing events. Copying all of the 2007 events and putting them in the new calendars and then entering the group information I have and trying to double check everything.


I would like event calendar managers for each province, people to make sure everything we have is absolutely correct. If anyone is interested in helping out, I'll do my best to make it worth your while! Email me at: bdbetty@gmail.com

Hope to see some of the locals and not so locals out at the GP Toy Run this weekend, for those attending Edmonton Toy Run or any other event, stay safe out there!

BD Betty

New Calendars & over 600 phone book entries

I have been doing data entry until I think my arms are going to fall off!
The good news is the phone book is progressing really well. The Alberta section is almost complete, Marg is working on BC and when I complete Alberta in the next day or so I will start on Saskatchewan. One by one we are going to get everything we know about into this thing and then....we''ll open it up to you our subscribers to add to it what you know about. If every rider checked to see if we knew about their favorite bar or shop, well we'd have a hell of a phone book!

The new events calenders are wonderful! It's taking a lot of time to transfer over the information from our old calendars but - when it's done it will be a tool that will make your life and mine a whole lot easier!

Check in often because Ali and are are fixing, tweaking, adding and updating stuff daily!

Stay safe and be smart out there.

Topping 500 Entries

In the last week the phone book entries have doubled!
www.beltdrivebetty.com

Check it out and if you have a category to recommend let us know!

We have also received our first contest submission for the Preferred and Referred Customer Service Contest! Watch for that story to be posted soon - Ali is setting that up this weekend.

Have a great weekend everyone - stay safe out there.