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Setting Up A Local Club
In Ten Easy Steps
STEP THREE - STAKE YOUR CLAIM:
The first thing you need to do in starting a club is getting your club
information entered in the database. This is important because if you’re
going to actively start working on a club you don’t want someone else
coming along and doing duplicate work. To do that you need to go to this
page:
/user/cruise_instant_member.html
On this page you’re going to setup a user name and a password. DON’T LOSE
THIS INFORMATION! You can pick anything you want for a user name and a
password as long as it has letters or numbers in it. Remember also, your
user name and password are case sensitive. There is also a drop down menu
below the password field on this page. Make sure you select, “new,” as you
are setting up a new account.
If you get an error message on the next page, use your browsers back
button and try entering a new user name or password.
After your account has been set up, you’ll be taken to this page:
/user/cruise_admin.html
You’ll need to complete this form:
Club Name:
Enter your club name in the format of Chevy Avalanche Fan Club of North
America - [city name here] Chapter
Please do not deviate from this format. Please do not try to give your
club a different name. A good example is people in Phoenix wanted to set
up a club call AAA Avalanches. Sadly the American Automobile Association
would probably have a problem with a car club being called AAA! You can
get yourself and the club in a lot of trouble if you try to get creative.
Club Meeting Date:
Enter the date of your next meeting in the format of Day of the Week,
Month DD, YYYY. As an example:
Saturday, June 22, 2002
If you don’t have a time setup than you can enter TBD, or something like
coming soon, being planned, etc. You can’t leave the field blank.
Club Meeting Time:
Enter the time of your next meeting in the format of XX:XX AM/PM. If your
meeting time is at noon or midnight than use noon, or midnight instead of
AM/PM. As an example:
10:30 AM
If you don’t have a time planned than you can enter TBD, or something like
coming soon, being planned, etc. You can’t leave the field blank.
Club Meeting Location:
Enter the place where the club will be meeting. This might be the parking
lot of a large store, a dealership, a rest area along a highway, or some
other well-known location. As an example:
· Parking Lot of Wells Fargo Bank
· Seaview Chevrolet, Pontiac, GMC
· Rest Area – Exit 192
· Main Entrance To Big Piney State Park
If you don’t have a location planned than you can enter TBD, or something
like coming soon, being planned, etc. You can’t leave the field blank.
Meeting Address:
This is the street address for the Meeting Location you just entered. If
you don’t have a location planned you can enter TBD, or something like
coming soon, being planned, etc. You can’t leave the field blank.
Meeting City:
This is the city for the Meeting Location you just entered. If you don’t
have a location planned you can enter TBD, or something like coming soon,
being planned, etc. You can’t leave the field blank.
This is the state for the Meeting Location you just entered. If you don’t
have a location planned you can enter TBD, or something like coming soon,
being planned, etc. You can’t leave the field blank. You really shouldn’t
put TBD here unless you’re completely unsure of what state you’ll be
meeting in (say your club is in New York City and might be meeting in
Connecticut, New York or New Jersey).
Meeting Zip Code:
This is the zip code for the Meeting Location you just entered. If you
don’t have a location planned you can enter TBD, or something like coming
soon, being planned, etc. You can’t leave the field blank. If you can’t
find the zip code for the location you picked you can visit:
http://www.semaphorecorp.com/cgi/form.html
You can enter the city and state on that page and get the generic delivery
zip code for the location.
Meeting Activities:
This is what the plan is for your club. If you don’t have a plan yet you
can enter TBD. When you’re entering in information in this field keep in
mind the following:
If you hit [ENTER] that will act as a line break (it will start a new
line. So if you’re typing in a paragraph there is no need to hit return
when you reach the end of the text box, the text will wrap on the page.
You can use some HTML in this text box. You can use <i> </i> for italic
text. You can use <b> </b> for bold text. You can use <a href=”http://xxxxx.xxx>click
here</a> to put in a hyperlink or just enter a hyperlink by itself like
http://xxxxxxx.xxx
Hyperlinks to other vehicle clubs, commercial sites (other than supporting
dealers) or third party offers will be removed. Repeat offenders of those
who abuse the database can be banned.
Coordinator Name:
That’s you! You have to put your real name there. Why? Because people are
going to know your real name anyway when you start taking e-mails, phone
calls, and dealing with dealerships. You can’t leave this field blank.
Coordinator E-Mail:
That’s your e-mail address! You have to put some sort of e-mail address
there, how else are people going to contact you!
Now before you put your regular old e-mail address there it is strongly
recommended you set up a special account. On the internet there are robot
crawlers and they scour around for e-mail addresses on web pages. When
they find these addresses they end up on SPAM lists and that’s where all
the trouble begins.
Because of these robot crawlers it is strongly recommended that you set up
a new e-mail account. You can do this at Yahoo or Hotmail – both offer
excellent services. If you have AOL, or your ISP allows you to have more
than one e-mail account you can use them to set up an additional account
with a specific address. You’re probably not going to want to give out
your everyday e-mail address in setting up the club.
What ever you do you have to enter an e-mail address because you can’t
leave this field blank.
Coordinator Phone Number:
This is an optional field. If you want to put your phone number up you
can. You should use the format of (XXX) XXX-XXXX. I’ve had my phone number
up on the site for months and I’ve received less than 10 calls about the
club. It’s one more way for people to contact you. You can leave this
field blank.
Supporting Chevrolet Dealer:
If there is a dealer that is handing out club brochures, informing
customers about the club, or promoting your cruise, you should list them
here. In the information you should include the dealer name, address,
city, state, zip, phone number, web address if they have one, and a
contact name. If you have more than one supporting dealership then list
more than one. Just hit the [ENTER] key twice to start a new paragraph in
the field. You can leave this field blank.
Supporting Cadillac Dealer:
If there is a Cadillac dealer that is handing out club brochures,
informing customers about the club, or promoting your cruise, you should
list them here. You would put the same information in the same way as you
would for a Chevrolet Dealer.
Club City:
This is one of the most important fields on the entire form. When a
visitor to the site searches for you club, this is the field that they
will see and search in. Understanding that, you should pick the closest
major city located near your club. As an example if you lived in Bellevue,
Washington you would enter Seattle in this field (not Bellevue). If you
lived in Humble, Texas you would enter Houston in this field (not Humble).
If you lived in Homestead, Florida you would enter Miami in this field
(not Homestead). This field is required – choose your city wisely!
Previous Meetings:
You can leave this field blank. This is for system administrators to
update.
Once your done with the form hit the
[SUBMIT] button, after a moment you'll be shown a confirmation page to let
you know the data you entered has been saved.
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