Your CycleFish Business Profile is your ad here on the site. No matter where on the site our users find you, they will always visit your profile to learn more about your business.
- Select a username that identifies your business. Our users will come to know you by name and you will want them to quickly recognize your business. Since usernames cannot contain spaces or punctuation, use upper and lower cases to identify the words in your username. Names like "RockysBar" or "SoCalChoppers" work great. To change your profile username, simply click Settings on the user menu.
- In your Quick Intro use words that will quickly identify your business since the quick intro is searchable by users (note: you do not need to include your location in the quick intro, that is a separate criteria when users search. A couple good examples of a business Quick Intro would be...
- Biker Friendly Bar with Food, Pool, Live Bands and Bike Night
- Complete Motorcycle Service and Repair. Tires Installed While You Wait. - Use the About Our Business field to not only describe your business in depth to our users, but be sure to let them know why they would want to shop with you verses a competitor. You are welcome to add as much info in this field as you like.
- Only add your business address if you have a physical location that your customers visit. If you are an online only business, do not enter any part of your address. You do not want visitors to think you only do business in a specific area.
- Select a Profile Picture that describes your business. A logo would be the best, but other good choices would be a picture of your business location, or a picture of your product(s)
Just like you are a part of your local community of riders, becoming a part of the CycleFish community will encourage our users to want to do business with a friend. But please be sure to check the Rules for Business Users to ensure you are acting within the the CycleFish guidelines.
- Be sure to login to your account often to check for friend request, answer messages, respond to profile comments, etc. If are users don't find you responsive to their messages and requests, they may decide to take their business elsewhere.
- Enter any motorcycle events that your business may have in our Motorcycle Event Calendar.
- Respond to users forum posts, and contribute to the forums.
Please remember that you cannot start a forum simply to promote your business, but you are always welcome to respond to user posts. - Create Photo Albums and let the users see you business and/or products. Some suggestions for photo albums are; pictures of your business, pictures of your products or work, pictures from events your business sponsors or attends, pictures of customers, pictures of the staff...you get the idea. A biker friendly bar or restaurant will do much better if people can "check it out" first. And if you have a custom bike shop, we don't have to tell you how important it is to show off your work.
CycleFish is a Community of bikers, motorcycle enthusiasts, and riders of all types. The more our community grows, the better it is for all of our Business Members. You may ask "How does it help me to send my customers or visitors to CycleFish?", and that's a good question. By telling them about CycleFish it allows them to be a part of the community, and get to know your business better. If they are a satisfied customer they can share that with other users in our community. Plus your customers will love you for tell them about CycleFish since we have so many great resources they will find useful and valuable. Here our a few tips on how you can promote the CycleFish Community.
- Place a link to CycleFish on your website. You may want to link directly to our home page, to our event calendar, or even right to your CycleFish Profile. To link to your CycleFish Profile use...www.cyclefish.com/[yourusername]
For a complete selection of links and banners, visit our Link To Us page - If you would like to place our business cards in your physical business location, just drop us a note and we will be happy to send you some.
We are also happy to create custom CycleFish Business Cards for you...
