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Category_Review Team>Review Spotlights, Chilled Echoes, Discussion Forums, FIrst Impressions, Forums, Joshua Farrell, phio_chan, ZetaBoards - August 7, 2014

Chilled Echoes - Review Spotlight

Full Review by phio_chan You can access Chilled Echoes to see for yourself what it looks like, by clicking here. Scoring: First Impressions & Appearance – (14 out of 20) Kickoff! The first category I will explore is the overall impression made from the appearance of the forum. My visit for this review was actually not the first, so probably a 'first impression' is not very accurate. Either way, there will still be things to check out. Chilled Echoes. I like the name, it is a unique one and I was not able to guess right away what the forum...

Your Members Are Priority!

This article was first posted on our blog on 01/06/2011. For this reason, the information may be outdated and no longer reliable/correct. The formula for a successful forum is complex. Getting the balance right is an art--too many categories, not enough advertising, too many guests, not enough members. All these things are very important, but I'm sure that everyone would agree with me when I say that your members are the key to your success. Keeping your members happy will mean that they have a higher chance of returning to your forum day after day. This, in turn, creates an...

Combining Small Communities

This article was first posted on our blog on 08/02/2011. For this reason, the information may be outdated and no longer reliable/correct. Every forum owner dreams of his/her community having thousands of members and hundreds of thousands of posts. The reality is that the chance of this actually happening is slim. There are so many well established communities for every subject that you can possibly imagine. These communities have member counts well into the thousands, how are we small forum owners supposed to compete with this? The truth is that we really can't, it often takes years of hard work,...

Promotion Forums: Do They Really Help?

This article was first posted on our blog on 31/01/2011. For this reason, the information may be outdated and no longer reliable/correct. I've been a member of Forum Promotion for a little over a year now. I've used several of the services offered as well as the services that many other promotion sites offer. To help you decide which services may be useful to you, I decided to break down the pros and cons of each of the services I have used. Almost all promotion sites use their own virtual currency that you can earn by posting/replying to topics. This...

5 Reasons Why You Might Be Losing Members

5 Reasons Why You Might Be Losing Members Getting people to join your forum and become members can be one of the hardest things to do. Losing these members is probably the easiest thing you can do. There are many reasons a member might leave, but we're going to cover the basics. Here you'll find the most common reasons for someone leaving and how to fix it. Reason #1: Staff Stop Contributing It's pretty easy for a member to detect if an admin, or staff member is taking their forum seriously or not. I've left many forums just because the...

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