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Bandwagon Jumping!
* Create a Big Brother forum and get it high on Google.
* Create a temporary discussion forum about a popular news event in an attempt to grab the BBC HYS-style of poster.
* Do a deal with a decent search engine and put it on your lead page in an attempt to get users to make you their homepage.
* Bring back the news thing you used to do with amusing spins on various news.
* Chuck up some celebrity rubbish - that always brings in people to chat.
If you want the forums to bring people in and actually be a decent marketing addition to your site then this is the rather unfortunate turn you have to take.
However there are other good things to promote alongside this:
* Writing/poetry competitions
* Most hilarious news item of the day competition
* Best bargain of the day competiton
etc
The point is there are a 1000 ways to get in some more hits from those looking to chat about current topics and win amazon/argos vouchers but you're not attempting them and the forums are dying on their a**e.
Above all these ideas won't amount to anything without high search results and a little bit of sly marketing (email or otherwise) but using the obvious tricks (calling pictures 'Big Brother'/'other' over and over for instance) it shouldn't be a problem.
Worth a go I think.
* Create a Big Brother forum and get it high on Google.
* Create a temporary discussion forum about a popular news event in an attempt to grab the BBC HYS-style of poster.
* Do a deal with a decent search engine and put it on your lead page in an attempt to get users to make you their homepage.
* Bring back the news thing you used to do with amusing spins on various news.
* Chuck up some celebrity rubbish - that always brings in people to chat.
If you want the forums to bring people in and actually be a decent marketing addition to your site then this is the rather unfortunate turn you have to take.
However there are other good things to promote alongside this:
* Writing/poetry competitions
* Most hilarious news item of the day competition
* Best bargain of the day competiton
etc
The point is there are a 1000 ways to get in some more hits from those looking to chat about current topics and win amazon/argos vouchers but you're not attempting them and the forums are dying on their a**e.
Above all these ideas won't amount to anything without high search results and a little bit of sly marketing (email or otherwise) but using the obvious tricks (calling pictures 'Big Brother'/'other' over and over for instance) it shouldn't be a problem.
Worth a go I think.
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:O Judas!
Tiramisu wrote:
> This is my second time on these here forums (I was here years ago
> on Special Reserve), so I'll call my presence here The Second
> Coming - that's it! - maybe I am The Saviour...
Not that I wish to doubt you're the savour or anything but how about a miracle to prove you are? Perhaps you could turn visitors into posters?
> This is my second time on these here forums (I was here years ago
> on Special Reserve), so I'll call my presence here The Second
> Coming - that's it! - maybe I am The Saviour...
Not that I wish to doubt you're the savour or anything but how about a miracle to prove you are? Perhaps you could turn visitors into posters?
How to save the forum: Don't have a thread called how to save the forum.
Personally I think it's a bit off putting to any new visitors to see a thread title along the lines of this to be honest, why come to a forum which some of its own members feel is dying?
Personally I think it's a bit off putting to any new visitors to see a thread title along the lines of this to be honest, why come to a forum which some of its own members feel is dying?
Someone should rename this the ideas thread.
Would be good as its a better reflection of what this actually is.
I've only just decided to read this thread.
'Frightning' off new visitors is irrelvant, because there are no new visitors. Pretty much everyone who posts on here has been on here since Special Reserve folded.
Biggie Little Jr. wrote:
> 'Frightning' off new visitors is irrelvant, because there are no
> new visitors. Pretty much everyone who posts on here has been on
> here since Special Reserve folded.
*Feels proud to be different*
> 'Frightning' off new visitors is irrelvant, because there are no
> new visitors. Pretty much everyone who posts on here has been on
> here since Special Reserve folded.
*Feels proud to be different*
Except Sunflower...
Biggie Little Jr. wrote:
> 'Frightning' off new visitors is irrelvant, because there are no
> new visitors.
You dont know that, you're just guessing. Unless Freeola choose to tell us we dont know how many visitors this forum gets. For all we know, lots of people might find the forum and just decide not to post.
> 'Frightning' off new visitors is irrelvant, because there are no
> new visitors.
You dont know that, you're just guessing. Unless Freeola choose to tell us we dont know how many visitors this forum gets. For all we know, lots of people might find the forum and just decide not to post.
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