On the Road With AIDS Awareness: Stories From The Chopper Charity Tour

When we did the 2007 Chopper Raffle we decided it would be best to tour the motorcycle everywhere we could. Among others, we attended the West Coast Women’s Show, the Snowbird RV Show and the 2007 Snow Expo— not your typical biker crowds. If there was a trade show we were there and we had a lot of fun going.

Towards the end of the raffle we started hitting a lot of bars, pubs and nightclubs. We figured hey, if these kind folks are willing to let us ride our charity chopper through their front door, hell yeah— we’ll take them up on that.

Of course this was also a blast.

But there is one place we’ve been knocking away and no matter how much we work on it and how many Facebook groups, MySpace pages and blogsites we have started it just hasn’t yield the results we wanted and that’s the internet.

When we go to the bars or events, we can show off our bikes, talk to folks and get the girls to help people fill out their entries. On the web this isn’t as easy to do.

So after a bit of trial-and-error and having read a book or two about online marketing strategies we decided the best way to approach the web is by showing people who we are and what we are doing out in the community. I’m shooting video right now for Youtube and we are going to continue our dialogue with the Internet community through blogging and online social groups. We are also focused on building our own online community centered on a great charitable cause, badass choppers and gorgeous girls.

As a bonus I’m going to be putting this, my tales from the tour, online from now on so that people know who’s supporting our causes and winning our choppers and where you kind find us next out in your community.

We are also accepting donations and delivering entries for the prize chopper online now. You can check out the website at www.choppertickets.com.

I’m hoping that we can continue to “Spread The Word” about the 2008 AIDS Awareness Custom Chopper Contest online and I’m sure that like all of our other endeavors we are also bound to have a little fun.