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EN: Just Some Guy with a Laptop and His Smart Friends

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No doubt about it, Eventing Nation has the coolest readers.  For example, a couple of days ago, Holly Covey sent me this image that she designed as a possible bumper sticker for the site.  How cool is that?!?  

One thing I have been thinking about is changing our tag-line: "Eventing news, results, and ridiculous commentary, from horse trials and three-day events."  This was my first attempt when I was designing the site last year, and I chose it because it was packed with keywords.  Search engines really look at tag-lines as they try to 'understand' what a website is about, but Google seems to understand us just fine these days and I am hoping to find something more stylish.  Visionaire and I have tossed around a few ideas, and the good ones are Visionaire's, the bad ones are mine.

(1) Eventing news and equestrian views delivered fresh daily with a twist of humor and opinions on the side.

(2) Whatever you do, wherever you go...Go eventing.

(3) When is John going to shut up and let the smart people write everything?

(4) Come along for the ride.

(5) Red on right, white on left, insanity in the middle.

(6) Bringing news, insight, and thought-displacing discussion to the eventing community.

(7) All courses: Average for readers with some experience at this level.

Actually, all but number (3) are Visionaire's, mine are no where near good enough to bother posting.  Please let us know your own ideas for tag-lines and which tag-lines you like best in the comment section.  Needless to say, your feedback is going to determine what direction we decide to go, and we will be looking at it on the header every single day, so no pressure folks.

We have also chatted about putting red and white flags on either side of the EN title, which I think would look pretty cool, so look for that possibly soon.

Finally, for some reason we have had over 30 FB friend requests in the last 6 hours, which is way above average.  In fact, it's 6 times above our full daily average for friend requests.  I know it's my job to keep track of everything related to EN, but I'm thinking there might be a link out there that I don't know about.  If anyone knows something, please fire us an email or comment.  Go eventing.

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One Fish, Two Fish, Three Fish, Blue Fish...Go Eventing

kidding.

Wherever you go in Eventing Nation, Red on Right

Eventing News and Equestrian Views in the Right Stride

Have a Good Ride?

I'm with John. Let the smart people do this.
I like the "eventing news and equestrian views." It sounds very sophisticated.

#5!!!
hehehehe
but I like Leslie's up top there.
the eventing news...... in the Right Stride.
nice ring to it.
but #5 sums it ALLLLLL up.
lol

I love the idea of red and white flags on the header! I think you need something with the humor tag in it. But I'm no good at thinking of anything. Good luck! I can't wait to read all the entries.

i vote for #5 .... its not like eventers are nuts or anything but .... wait, the fences don't fall down .... ok, definitly #5

I'm with them, I like #5 a lot! haha

#5 was my 1st instinct...but I also like what Leslie has.

I think it's good to have something about the whole "news and views" component.
Then there's the "ridiculous commentary", which is what actually brought me to the site for that very first time. Thanks John!
LOVE the idea of the red and white flags on the site.
Good Luck ☺

7!!!!!!
made me lol

5 & 7 made me laugh.

5 or 7!!

i really like 5 and 7!!

I love #2 and #5.

I'd like to think that me tagging you in my facebook status last night may be responsible for your increase in friend requests...

And I'm humble, too.

But alas, I don't know any of your new facebook friends, so its probably not me. ;)

Also, I think red and white flags on the title and the tagline "Red on right, white on left, insanity in the middle." is so perfect in SO many ways.

I vote for 7....but maybe only US eventers will get it...

Number 7 is by far my favorite!
You could try to play off "I came, I saw, I conquered" and have we ride, we read, we are addicted. Unfortunately I'm not clever enough to maintain parallel structure for the grammar gurus, but such is life.

"For those of us who have fallen off a few too many times"

Comparing EVENTING to Horse Shows is like Comparing NASCAR to a Car Show!

Scratch that, I was just on a rant.

GO EVENTING.
Because Life doesn't get any better!

#2 and then #5 for me, but maybe a different word than insanity? No suggestion from me, and not that jumping solid fences isn't insane, but maybe something more positive! Or Leslie's suggestion is good, too :-)

This entry was a great read! I couldn't have explained the topic better myself.

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