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Blueridge9
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Bring more drivers to GenVibe with you

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Hi Vibers,When you see other Vibes in your town do you want to know who's driving them? I do.I wanted to share an idea/experiment with all of you to bring more Vibe Drivers to this WONDERFUL website/resource. There are 3 other Vibes that park in the garage at work but I don't know the drivers. I get there before them and often leave before they do so I've never seen the drivers either. I always see their cars when I go to lunch or a meeting. One is Lava red, the other two are Moonstone, there is another parked in the lot at the mall parked by the video store.Here's the EXPERIMENT: During the next month I'm going to park near them one at a time and leave my business card and email (so they know I'm legit) with a note about the GenVibe website inviting them here and then see what happens. I'll let you know if I get any responses. Has anybody else tried this kind of outreach?Making Friends Everywhere we go,
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Post by WaveAction »

we had lil business cards that had the website and like a lil picture on it, on the back had a lil description of the site..this was on my old car forum i was on(JCO) but it is a good idea..theirs a few vibes i see that are around town, even matrixs'
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i usually leave a business card that looks like this
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Post by WaveAction »

nice, we had just basic ones, white, with the JCO logo and the website beneath it.we could do something similar..front have the genvibe logo with the website on the bottom..and on the back..some little description about the forum and the community
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Keith and WaveAction,Thanks for the info/ideas !
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Post by WaveAction »

thats what we're here for man
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I've tried it various times before... once actually got an existing member of genvibe. LOL!
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Post by futureviber »

I see lots of Vibes... but usually driving down the road... not somewhere that I could talk to anyone about the site. There is one in my town that I do drive by a lot. looks just like mine. I might write them a note sometime, I probably know them.My boyfriend teaches at a high school and one of his students drives a vibe. I told him to tell the student about genvibe... but I doubt he will.
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I've got some flyers that I stick under wipers (along with an extra Pontiac Performance mag when I got 'em).See this thread for the flyers.
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ZubenElGenubi,Thanks for the link to your Vibe flyer! I REALLY like it and just printed some out for tomorrow. Maybe somebody should print some for the rally this summer (I can't go).I parked over where the Lava Red Vibe is usually and then looked for the car at lunch and again at quittin time but they weren't there today-bummer. Maybe they are home doing their income taxes so they'll get some money back to pay for mods. It's for the best cause now I have this cool flyer to leave for them.
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Made some new fliers as well, both a color and a black and white version. Used the hoody graphic on these ones. Enjoy.

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Black and White.

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Here's one I did a while ago...
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Good stuff V!
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HAHAHA i love how you disabled the save/extract function in your pdf... lol so every time someone wants to print it out they have to come back here and find the thread it's in then redown load it lol disable the security lol where's the love man lol
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Quote, originally posted by keithvibe »HAHAHA i love how you disabled the save/extract function in your pdfi was able to save the BW version to my system, resave it, and print. Did you right click and save?
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Blanco Diablo and VforVibe,TGIF! Thanks for sharing your awesome graphic talents with the Vibedom! I do not have that skill. I printed both of your flyers and saved them for the future too. I put some in my car but still have not spotted the other Vibes at work - where did they go? Whenever they come back I will be ready with these flyers. THANKS!
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Strange, I saved it the same way I always do. Anyone else getting the same issue?
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nope i can save the file directly.
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Post by Raivis »

i have buiness cards i leave. i stick them in the weatherstriping on the drivers side window. i went to http://www.vistaprint.com you can make then for free, u just pay shipping. you get 250 cards fo like $6 can't beat that
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I'm still using these fliers that V made. But, I don't know if anyone has yet visited GV because of it. The biz card idea is great too, although I suspect they would be harder to see.
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could be my old 5.0 acrobat... lol i haven't upgraded it lol and I don't want to pay the bucks to do so.. I don't have just reader i have the full version of acrobat and when i go to file... save is grayed out... i just printed to my distiller to get it to save, there is always ways around stuff...
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Isn't acrobat free?? Acrobat reader is free, for sure. I have 8.0 installed.
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reader is free... but the full version of acrobat isn't. full version(which is what i have) alows you to modify a pdf and make changes with out going back to a customer for them to reset it in the orig. file.
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I just got the Genvibe.com decal from Grafxwerks to advertize the site. I have wanted to leave notes on cars though or get a sign for my ack window that reads, "Follow me to the Epic GenVibe Rally!" or some such.
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Moongdss,The GenVibe decal is a good idea, I might order one too. Yes, it would be great if you could get all the local Vibes to follow you to the rally.Well I've been having fun putting flyers on other Vibe cars but I still have not actually talked with any of them. I really wanna meet the Vibe drivers who park in my garage at work.
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get that temporary fun paint for the windows and everyone write follow me to the Epic Meet on the hatch window...lol...i just ordered a set of the genvibe decals from graphxwerks....sux i dont have them on in time for Carlisle tomorrrow...
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keithvibe.......awesome Pontiac plate on your Sig and your Vibe!! Oh wait....it was mine..lol Looks Great!!
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Quote, originally posted by 04shadowvibe »keithvibe.......awesome Pontiac plate on your Sig and your Vibe!! Oh wait....it was mine..lol Looks Great!!It looks much better on mine...
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