Could Bredemarket (eventually) become an auto racing sponsor?
In case it’s not obvious, I’ve had a lot of fun coming up with the names for the various Bredemarket services that I offer, While Bredemarket 404 is my obvious favorite name (I’ll explain why later), I found myself thinking about Bredemarket 400 this afternoon. (That’s my Short Writing Service, if you need text for a blog post or something similar.) And the thought struck me:
“Bredemarket 400” sounds like an auto race.
Now auto racing is not confined to the Southeastern United States and various European locations. In fact, there’s a speedway not too far from Bredemarket, in Fontana, California.
This particular speedway already has a sponsor, and I don’t think that Bredemarket can outbid the Auto Club to secure that sponsorship.
At least not today.
But if Bredemarket grows enough, and I decide to become a big name in the auto racing industry, I’d better start doing my research.
Bredemarket research into the auto racing industry, by looking at one website
So I decided to check the website of one of the big names in the auto racing industry. I won’t name the company whose website I checked, but I will mention in passing that I grew up in the Washington, DC area, and am a lifelong fan of the Washington Re- … I mean the Washington Football Team.
So I got to “website X,” and the first thing that I noticed on the website was…the logo of a corporate sponsor for website X. Not surprising, if you know anything about auto racing.
The next item was a special announcement that tours of the company’s facility were suspended due to COVID-19, and that requests for autographs from the owner of the company had also been suspended.
Now that the preliminaries were out of the way, I figured I’d get to the introductory text for website X—the text that explained what the company was about, and who this guy was whose name was prominently featured in the company name. Why would anyone want to get autographs from a company CEO? I, of course, knew WHY this person was so famous, but there are probably a number of racing fans who have never heard of the company owner. Obviously the website should explain this, right?
Um, no. The website X home page had a bunch of stuff, but nothing that explained what the company was.
So I checked the menu, figuring that there would be an “About” section, presumably as the first menu item.
“About” was the last menu item. I would have put it first, but at least it was there.
So I went to the “About” page, figuring that I would finally see the story of the company and of its famous owner.
The first thing on the “About” page was a button. If you clicked the button, you would find out the name of the owner of the company and a list of its championship years.
Thanks.
I scrolled down the “About” page, and the next thing that I saw was the address of the facility and the hours during which it could be visited.
Wait a minute, I thought to myself. The home page said that the facility could NOT be visited, and now this page is saying to go ahead and come on down?
The rest of the “About” page wasn’t much better. The Frequently Asked Questions are apparently infrequently updated, since they reference (again) the times that the facility is open, an announcement of an event that occurred a week ago, the ability to get autographs from the company owner at one of his personal appearances, and other outdated information.
How can a website be improved?
Some of you already know where this post is headed. For those who don’t, ask yourself the following question:
Isn’t there a way for a company to check its web site and its other social media outlets to make sure that everything is correct, up to date, and synchronized?
I’m glad you asked that question, because one of the services that Bredemarket provides is the aforementioned Bredemarket 404 Web/Social Media Checkup. The number 404, of course, comes from the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) code “404 Not Found,” although the Bredemarket service looks at much more than missing web pages.
As part of the Bredemarket 404 service, I agree with the client on the web pages, social media accounts, and (optionally) downloadable documents that Bredemarket will examine. The examination itself includes the following:
- Broken links
- Outdated information
- Other text and image errors
- Synchronization between the web page and the social media accounts
- Content synchronization between the web page and the social media accounts
- Hidden web pages that still exist
- Other items desired by the client
It’s a useful checkup to see where your website and social media accounts stand, allowing your company to take action, fix problems, and improve your marketing outreach. If your company doesn’t have the time to perform the checkup yourself, let Bredemarket do it.
Contact Bredemarket and we can discuss next steps.
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