Yamaha Information Pay-Site

[RACINSTATION]

I just want to ask this question and I DON"T want to get bashed so either a yes or no would be awesome. We get buried with phone calls and emails all day requesting set up information on sleds. Would you consider a pay site IF you were guaranteed the information you need within 24 hours, there were informative articles and information that was WORTH the cost on the site. I am talking about service manuals, set up manuals, clutching, suspension set up etc. AND if you had a question such as "What clutching do I run in a Supercharged Apex at 6500 ft" you would receive an answer with the exact part you needed.

What I am trying to do is prioritize my time and help everyone I can at the same time. Also, as part of your membership you would receive discounts etc. I am not looking to start a Forum, just an information site. It would be mountain specific. No short track stuff, ONLY mountain and boondocking info.

Give me some feedback, and remember I don't want to get blasted with a bunch of negative. Just a yes (with recommendations) or a no.

 

[DARKO]

I hope you do it, then i can turn my PM button back on. lol

 

[snow_knight]

Very good idea.. It would take a lot of your time to setup up someting like that.. and to have enough information to satisify all your paid subcribers.. there is just so much stuff out there..

I would probably be interested in this.. depending of the price..

 

[whittaker727]

I think that is a great idea Eric. You could also expand into your knowledge of BD settings for arctic cat stuff with turbos and big bores! It might help with the phone calls and not being able to return each and every call too. Sounds good to me. How much would a membership be? You have a PM

 

[geno]

seems like a no brainer to me get'r done

 

[RACINSTATION]

Got your PM and sent one back. It would take some time to get all the information on there, but then when it is on all you have to do is log on and there it is. I have had some guys call me at least 10 times in one week to get Boondocker numbers because they do not write them down or forgot them. I also do not like to tell someone that calls to ask for Turbo clutching "If you didn't buy it from us I can't tell you" I think this come across as egotistical and then the guy wants to drive by shoot your house the next day. I also have the problem of being of the phone with someone 2000 miles away and a customer I have known my whole life is standing there rolling his eyes at me. It's a tough balance, but I think this would be a positive step so you could get the answers you want right away.

 

[Yamamauler]

I think its a good idea,



Y

 

[Ultralord]

I would think that would be fine I own A few Auto shops in the Seattle area and we pay a monthy fee to Alldata Iatn Mitchell and Identafix. when A customer calls me for a over the phone diag I tell them to lay the phone on the hood and give me your credit card info and I will see what I can do Iam not sure why you think your service is any less valuable? as for a regular customer like me to my not so local dealer I expect some info for free just because I have spent 200 g with him over the years but the only time I ask is when something i have paid him for is not working right. So I would look at a web based info set up subsciption based info and maybe a 900 number I mean boost is better than phone sex anyway> Good luck

 

[HYFLYR]

It would be a tough undertaking for you but it sounds like a good idea for sure.

 

[RACINSTATION]

UltraLord: Good point. I had that in mind, if you buy a sled from us or an engine package, I think that a a subscription to the site should be included with that. But, if you just bought a bunch of stuff at the local lawn mower/snowmobile shop at cost and they don't know how to set it up, it should cost you for that information. I spend thousands of hours year round testing and that get us valuable information. I just don't like to sound like "if you want to talk to me its gonna cost you!!" I have always been turned of by that in other businesses, but like Dynotech Research, I gladly pay my yearly dues and access the sit at will and find a lot of cool information there.

 

[Ultralord]

oh yea this would give you needed income for r&d so you could figure out the bugs in stuff like certain kits so I donthave to figure it out with new motors and 1 month on a cat cause my motor is in pices at a shop 500 miles away in a year of record snowfall. Ya man I would pay mmmmmmmm 6000 fo a new mtr a g for a new turbo and I am stuck on a fing cat

 

[Ultralord]

yup thats how we see Auto parts stores and their bs code reading tools that dont fix the car or the parts dude or the to truck driver that can tell you how to fix your car if the realy could the would work for me fo 40pr hr instear of towing cars or selling parts for 15

 

[bmiller]

hell yeh

I would pay for info. People need to think how much r&d costs. I am a flatlander and don't have the mtns. at my back door to check my mods I have done. Lucky for me some guys have been helpful with there setups. I have asked about your cams for my apex, numbers would be nice(price, dyno, clutching).

You gonna set it up like a magazine subscription? or what.

 

[bmiller]

Great Idea!!!!

ps over the cams I hope to boost my next sled. You guys would be living my dream, getting paid to do what we love. If I could only get my wife to move!

 

[RACINSTATION]

I was thinking like a magazine subscription. You pay once a year and get a username and password. It would be limited to the buyer, Dynotech has a system to monitor this. It would have information, tests, product reports (real ones....if something sucks we all need to know, even if my best friend built it!), factory specs, news etc. I just don't want to do a forum where a bunch of guys get on and tell how bad brand X is and how they rule everywhere in the country they go. And, like I said, only information that is viable. If you do drag racing in Minnesota, I cannot help you.

 

[colorado yamaha]

Great idea, you may find that others in the Mountain Arena will share their findings also ~ to help everyone out.

 

[eddie]

Yes in short

I would pay if it was a once a year deal, I have been on a mechanic site with GM that charges by the question. That is a big turn off.

 

[happyhour]

yes

sounds like a good idea

 

[johndeere8420]

No, and here's why...

(for your sake)... Sit back and look at how much info is shared on this forum alone.... and if you get say a dozen guys paying you for your services, what's to say the info you gave doesn't get posted on here and is now "free" for me... What you will need to keep afloat ($) is all of us to contact you and pay for that info/data... not only a select few..... How will you "patrol" that?

Don't get me wrong...IT'S a SWEET idea, and I'd probably use it... but i'm not sure I would want to jump off nutz deep into a business like that.......

 

[Ultralord]

I dont think it would add much of a cost to do just web design and a 900# should be able to do this for under 5g it would save him that in time I was at Outlaw dropping my sled off a few weeks back and the poor dude had all kinds of stuff going on and most of it was free advice on the phone when you do something good everybody wants a piece most of these guys get to this point by doing good work and being nice guys But the real chalange is to get paid for what you do and still have everybody happy to pay you and not think that you are ripping them off the problem is that sleds change so much that every time a product is done its 1/2 way through the season and it takes 2 years to realy refine it and then its obsolete. Just remember to design your buisness for 99 people not the 1 that complains that you charge him for what you do and know.