Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > UK Membership distribution

[webbyc]

Not sure about including those counties north of London such as Herts in the south though.

Please clarify something for me, nothing to do with membership distribution, but why is the Watford Gap so far north of Watford?

[dickieducati]

miton keynes is officially in the south east.

[Mr_S]

Originally posted by antonye
Depends on what you do - some stuff just can't be done remotely, or is not cost effective / practical / secure enough to implement vlans into work.

Besides, I enjoy the train ride every morning.

You need to have a very quiet chat with me and my employers.

That's why I look after customers across the globe from my house by the sea (well quite near to it)

[JPM]

So looking at the chart the "south" has 52% members, more than the rest of the UK put together... but the rest of the UK has more Ducati dealers, and my assumption would be more Ducati riders outside of London (otherwise the dealer network wouldn't exist outside of the south). So why are there less members then?

Is that because the DSC doesn't do enough to promote itself and try and get new members outside of the south?

For example most of my biking friends ride Ducati's, in fact because of their constant ****ging off of my UJM many years ago I was forced to switch, and have had 3 Ducati's so far, non of them browse or are part of the DSC even though they know it exists. And I am guessing this maybe the same for others.

Raid the lakes was a great success organised by a couple of DSC members to try and grow the DSC contingent in and around the lakes, unfortunately it clashed with the DD round, but it opened my eyes to making more of an effort to get up and see Mike and Ian more often, and because of that success RTL 06 is already being planned, and again because of that it has spurred me on to try and organise a non-official DSC track day next year at one of the premier Northern circuits (which will still be cheaper than say going to Brands).

I'm not ****ging anyone off, or having a go, just playing devil's advocate

[Mr_S]

Time to recruit more northern dealers to recruit more DSC members then, since it's not exactly difficult for them to mention it when someone's in buying a bike/parts/servicing etc. It can also be positioned that by getting a customer involved in a wider community, they're more likely to continue being a Ducati owner, and therefore gain long term revenue from those customers that are club members (except for one or two dealers that give poor service...)

cue pyramid selling style seminar.


Out of curiosity, are there more Ducati's up north because house prices are lower, so you have more disposable income

[skidlids]

Strange as a resident of Oxford I come under the Midlands section, but quite often when I head Northwards I have to pass through Buckinghamshire which is listed as a region in the South.
A distorted picture me thinks

[Ray]

Interesting stuff.

I would be very interested to see how the DSC membership mapped against known owners but that ain't gonna happen for various reasons? Is the proportion of DSC members to Ducati owners per area the same or different?

In the old days the DSC did a lot to promote itself at race meets, I got to become aware of the Club from seeing info. at Brands and Donnington.

Ducati Leeds used to and might still send out the DSC flyer with Every Ducati sold, old and new.

The Yorks regional e-mailing list has about 30 or so recipients but I know for a fact that some have sold their bikes and/or not renewed.

Any chance of a numbers breakdown just for Yorkshire Via U2U??

It'll be a help to see how the numbers match or not with the number on the e-mail list.

I can see that more DSC events happen in the South but why? More willing Volunteers? More people support the events due to larger membership base? More DSC members with time to spend on our selfish hobby? Better weather?
Better roads? (I don't fink so).


Ray.



[Edited on 15-7-2005 by Ray]

[dickieducati]

afaic the way to get membership is to promote the board and build the membership that way. i know only x% of members use the board but i bet they are the most active ones.