How to give back to StreetFire

First I want to say thank you for your emails, messages and kind words of encouragement. We do it because we love it, and more importantly we believe that a video sharing service specific for our hobby can work.

I strongly believe we should do what we can to support our own hobby, and apparently so do you! I am constantly asked on the forums, by phone, email, in person or even comments in the video, what can you do to help? From donations to working for free, I am deeply grateful for the overwhelming support and am very flattered by your generosity.

That said, short of becoming a sponsor or helping to get companies to become sponsors, there are three easy things that anyone can do that has a huge positive impact on StreetFire.

1.) Fill StreetFire with content. If you have video, upload it to the site. If you see a cool YouTube video or Google Video, then stick that into the system too with embed code. Then link everyone to the StreetFire page. For Example this video was embeded onto StreetFire from Google and got 269,000 views in total. But of those 270K views, 100,000 came from StreetFire. That's just on one video!

2.) Encourage other people to fill StreetFire with content. If you see or talk to someone posting content to other services encourage them to upload to us, or at the very least place their embed code into our system too. Why support sites that don't support us car guys? If you see a blog site using YouTube, ask them why not use StreetFire instead? heck we have higher quality than them and give their videos better traffic. [example] Conversely if you see a site that does use StreetFire over other services, tell them you appreciate them supporting us. Let us know, and we will start featuring them. [example]

3.) Spread the word on other sites that we are video sharing for the car community by the car community. Why support sites that don't support us car guys? By people uploading videos and watching videos on StreetFire, we attract the attention of sponsors like Eibach, Edelbrock, Fidanza and others. The car community has the ability to lift up it's own, but only if the word is spread.

At the end of the day, it boils down to this, we are very grateful to all of you that have expressed a desire to give back to our community, the best way to do that is to give back. Encourage other people and other sites to use our service, and we will encourage our users to visit sites and video teams that use us as well.

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