skydived19006 4 #1 November 12, 2004 Following is an email I sent to SANGARO regarding SKYRIDE. I’d like to see us all band together and put a collective “boot in their ass!” Any opinions or thoughts? Martin I’m sure you’re aware of the parasite on our industry by the name of 1-800-SKYRIDE. The main reason (in my opinion) they get as much business as they do is that they can afford a national paid sponsor presence on at least a few of the major search engines. I had thought that possibly you could collect memberships form the DZOs in order to afford the same nationally paid sponsor presence, and your site could act as the link site for the one time customer that we all understand is the main source or revenue in the industry. I’m not exactly sure how you could convince the DZOs to “join” and pay their share, maybe a “special” page that the customers are sent to with just the sponsoring DZs listed? There’s a general hatred throughout the industry (I think) for Skyride. The DZs generally don’t like to cooperate, but here we have the old “the enemy of my enemy is my ally” situation. I’m a small one Cessna DZ, and do between 2 and 300 tandem/first jump students a year. I’d gladly pay $100 or so for something like this. What do you think? Martin Myrtle Air Capital Drop Zone Wichita KansasExperience is what you get when you thought you were going to get something else. AC DZ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
slotperfect 7 #2 November 12, 2004 Moved here from the Instructors Forum because it only indirectly deals with instructional disciplines. Locked because there is already an excellent thread on this very important subject HERE. Let's keep the great discussions going in that one. Arrive Safely John Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
