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Biketober Daytona Beach

Posted in About Me, Bike Week, Biker Sites, Biketoberfest, Camping, Daytona Beach, Florida, Hotels, Internet, Motorcycle Event Accommodations, Motorcycle Events, Motorcycles, Ormond Beach, Sites I have created, Travel on September 18th, 2006

My Biketoberfest or Biketober as I refer to it site. I had a little problem with the city and the Daytona Beach Chamber about using the word fest with biketober and had to remove it from all the pages and graphics. You can read more about that in my post remove the fest or face legal action.

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Competing for “biker bucks”

Posted in Bike Week, Biketoberfest, Daytona Beach, Editorial, Florida, Motorcycle Event Accommodations, Motorcycle Events, Motorcycles, Opinion, Ormond Beach, Politics, Rants and Raves on July 8th, 2006

It’s not funny how the web sites on the Internet related to motorcycle events compete for your money as a motorcycle owner, enthusiast and biker. Especially when it comes to the city Daytona Beach, Florida the Chamber and  visitors bureau. A city that is continually barking about motorcycle events and the debilitation that it brings upon its character. The city of Daytona Beach has announced more than once that they intend to promote more of a family and corporate eye for tourism and wish to downsize events. The web sites that they build and have created would leave you to believe differently, and why not? They are only after the biker buck!

 I am amazed at the flat out plagiarism that has been going on with the sites that are run by paid developers. At a point in time I was flattered at the idea that these so called designers followed me around like a puppy starving for attention, but it has just got out of hand. You all know what I mean. It is like when some guy decides he wants to show off by picking on you because you are the badest looking guy in a crowd. You try real hard to hold your temper and not pop the guy in the face, but he just keeps pushing your buttons any way he can. That is what is going on with these wanna bes. They are pretending to be your friend and mix in with the crowd, the whole time they have their eye on your wallet.

 I tried to communicate and develop a relationship with these people. They refused, stating we primarily promote the Daytona Beach area to families and corporate markets.  The Daytona Area Convention and Visitors Bureau tells me this because I had pictures that did promote family and corporate values. Later as my Biketober site became more popular, and in an act of jealousy, Janet Kersey from the DBCVB writes to me Certified and states that I must not use the word biketoberfest. Biketoberfest is a registered trademark of Daytona Beach and I must remove the word fest from all of my text and graphics.
To be continued ….

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MNO Photography

Posted in About Me, Cool Sites, Daytona Beach, Florida, Melbourne, Motorcycle Pictures, Motorcycles, Ormond Beach, Photo Gallery Pages, Photography, Sites I have created, Travel on June 5th, 2006

Motorcycle, event and travel photographers Mike and Cindi Odom. Visit MNO Photograhy to see some of our work and learn more about our team.

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Remove the word “fest” from Biketober site

Posted in Biketoberfest, Daytona Beach, Editorial, Florida, Hotels, Internet, Motorcycle Event Accommodations, Motorcycle Events, Motorcycles, Opinion, Ormond Beach, Rants and Raves, Travel on March 26th, 2006

Back some time ago, I received a certified letter from the Daytona Beach Area Convention and Visitors Bureau ( DBACVB ) advising me to remove the “fest” from my Biketober site. The letter stated that the word Biketoberfest® is a registered trademark owned by the DBACVB. This letter was different of previous correspondence coming from the non-profit organization in that it did not give a reason why. Previous communication with
the DBACVB stated my site did not promote Daytona Beach as they wanted. The email went on to state ” we primarily promote the Daytona Beach area to families and corporate markets.” Oh really! Recently the cover page of one of the domains that is approved and associated with the DBACVB looked like this:

CEO Eyecandy?

Read: Daytona Beach, city without a vision

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Bike Week

Posted in About Me, Bike Week, Biker Sites, Biketoberfest, Daytona Beach, Florida, Links, Motorcycle Event Accommodations, Motorcycle Events, Motorcycle Pictures, Motorcycles, Ormond Beach, Sites I have created on March 22nd, 2006

Bike Week Daytona was one of the first motorcycle event pages I created. You can read the story about how all my biker sites started at MNO Photo Bike Week is a 10 day event that is held in Daytona Beach, Florida every year and attracts one of the largest amount of bikers and motorcycle enthusiast. Over the past few years the event has spread out and headed north upwards to the Ormond Beach area.

That is not to say that visitors do not still end up on Main Street in Daytona Beach and the Daytona Beach Hotels still get booked solid every year for the motorcycle event. But the activities have spread out and there are an ever growing number of popular bike week destinations being added to the list of places to go and stay.

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