Website Name: Promotion Curve
Website Link: http://promotioncurve.net/
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Website Link: http://promotioncurve.net/
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Promotion Curve
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Promotion Curve
Review by Atrox
Review by Atrox
[note]========== BEGIN - First Impressions ==========[/note]
The screen on my laptop is a decent size, when I went on Promotion Curve I could see down to the "Promotion Center" forum, all of the forums were active and had been posted in today which was good to see. With what I could see, I was very impressed. The theme looked very nice and neat and I loved the colors that it featured. I think that the logo and favicon could do with a change because it reminds me of the old Supromote quite a lot, it may do this for some visitors from FP too. However, since then Supromote has changed it's logo and isn't really running anymore. The image was also free to use, so although I think it'd be better if you change it up a bit, it doesn't matter too much.
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Good
[note]========== BEGIN - Design Quality ==========[/note]
The theme really blew me away, it looks neat without being too boring and all of the colors go well together. There are no real eyesores although I think that you need to fix the alignment issue between forums in different categories. It makes it look very untidy. I'm a really big fan of the sidebar thing that you've got going on there too. Other than that, I don't have anything else to say about the design quality. To me, it's almost perfect.
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Good
[note]========== BEGIN - Site Statistics ==========[/note]
The fact that a lot of your forums have not been posted in for a while will really push people away and prevent them from joining. Visitors will want to see most, if not all forums active. They don't want to see some forums that have been posted in within the last two days and then the rest that haven't been posted in for weeks. I think that you need to get this sorted and you need to start posting in these forums yourself to kick-start discussions. You also need to get members to concentrate on the webmaster/promotion forums a lot more because 1164 of the 3250 total posts you have are in the off-topic forums. Not very impressive and very off putting.
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Poor
[note]========== BEGIN - Staff Professionalism ==========[/note]
When I looked through some of the staff announcements within the "News & Announcement" section I was not impressed. Many of the threads were informal and poorly written with obvious mistakes. The thread titled "Bandwidth Exceeded" was one that I thought was particularly poor. The punctuation, grammatical errors and short length was not very professional at all. I urge you to write more than two lines for an announcement, also you should run your announcements through an online spell and grammar checker to ensure that your posts look professional.
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Poor
[note]========== BEGIN - Originality ==========[/note]
Sadly, Promotion Curve is another promotion forum that is virtually a clone of Forum Promotion. You have the same services that Forum Promotion offers and the active members mainly from Forum Promotion. Why would you join a promotion forum to advertise to the same audience and get the same copycat services? You need to think of some original ideas of your own, as hard as it may be. Also, going out into some of the forums that you don't know of yet and attracting members from wherever you can. If members of Forum Promotion realize that you're attracting members that haven't yet accessed FP at all, they'll want to join so that they can advertise to a wider audience.[note]========== END - Originality ==========[/note]
Poor
[note]========== BEGIN - Site Structure ==========[/note]
Oh look, another site structure that has no originality at all. The same order, the same kind of names and no real twist. The amount of promotion forums that I have seen with this kind of layout is phenomenal, I could read out the structure and typical descriptions with such ease. You really need to try and think about ways that you can mix the site structure up a little bit. Maybe heading off to the brainstorming section or another section so that you can offer members FP Cash for helping you think of ways to mix it all up.
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Poor
[note]========== BEGIN - Grammar & Spelling ==========[/note]
From the off, I could see a few errors. For instance, the very first forum, "News & Announcement" was missing the "s" on the end of "Announcement". There isn't one single announcement in there. The same goes for it's description, you're missing the "s". Also, it would be a lot better if you put "regarding the community." rather than "about the community.". For the "Feedback & Suggestions" forum I'd like to say that punctuation does exist, "Share concerns or questions and suggestions" that doesn't work. It sounds terrible. Instead, try "Share your concerns, questions and suggestions". It's the same as many other forums, I could go on all day about the mistakes that I see. Instead, run them all through a grammar and spellchecker and also, read them through yourself. Do they sound good or not? If they don't sound good, re-write them.
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Poor
Final Remarks
Promotion Curve needs to be set apart from the rest of the promotion forums. This can be very hard to do, but you have to try. Take on board some of the suggestions that I have given you. Hopefully they will help.
Your Score
The design, overall, looks pretty good. 🙂
Here are a few suggestions:
1. I recommend adding some padding inside the "Mini Ads." It looks a little bit compressed, with no space between the ads and the box.
2. I recommend adding a "Who was online today" list. It makes the community looks more active.
3. On "Latest Threads," I don't think showing the number of views is necessary. It seems to take up a bit too much space.
4. I did a double-take when I saw "Promotion Center" and then "Advertisement Area." The two seemed too similar and I asked myself "What's the difference?" Maybe sort the forums so that they are not beside each other, or make the names more clear?
This is a pretty good site you have here. Good luck! 😀
Here are a few suggestions:
1. I recommend adding some padding inside the "Mini Ads." It looks a little bit compressed, with no space between the ads and the box.
2. I recommend adding a "Who was online today" list. It makes the community looks more active.
3. On "Latest Threads," I don't think showing the number of views is necessary. It seems to take up a bit too much space.
4. I did a double-take when I saw "Promotion Center" and then "Advertisement Area." The two seemed too similar and I asked myself "What's the difference?" Maybe sort the forums so that they are not beside each other, or make the names more clear?
This is a pretty good site you have here. Good luck! 😀
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Paragon
The first thing I sighted was the logo, I don't know about what other users think but personally I didn't like the logo. With the word 'curve' in your forum name there could have been much more to the logo than what there is currently. The background to the .thead looks good but I don't like how you use the same background for the header, it looks rather squashed to me. Other than that I like how the icons are set and overall the theme is decent.
As mentioned in the review above, a lot of sections haven't been posted in for quite some time which gives a discouraging impression to an guest. For some of them I can understand they're services and members are required to post in them but you have quite a lot. At the time I was checking, Promotion Curve has an average 34 posts per day which is slightly under average in my opinion, a promotion forum which has been opened for a few months should be hitting around 50 posts average per month, that's what I think.
Overall Promotion Curve isn't a bad place, but again it's 'just another promotion forum', there's nothing unique you have on Promotion Curve which other promotion forums don't have and for your site to compete with top promotion forums you need to introduce something unique, yes it's hard to think of new ideas, but if you've opened a promotion site it's your duty now. Good luck with Promotion Curve 😉
As mentioned in the review above, a lot of sections haven't been posted in for quite some time which gives a discouraging impression to an guest. For some of them I can understand they're services and members are required to post in them but you have quite a lot. At the time I was checking, Promotion Curve has an average 34 posts per day which is slightly under average in my opinion, a promotion forum which has been opened for a few months should be hitting around 50 posts average per month, that's what I think.
Overall Promotion Curve isn't a bad place, but again it's 'just another promotion forum', there's nothing unique you have on Promotion Curve which other promotion forums don't have and for your site to compete with top promotion forums you need to introduce something unique, yes it's hard to think of new ideas, but if you've opened a promotion site it's your duty now. Good luck with Promotion Curve 😉
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Promotion Curve
Review by John123
Review by John123
[note]========== BEGIN - Design Quality ==========[/note]
Your theme looks good. You've done a good job of mixing the black and white together to make a good overall theme.
The theme looks good, but that huge green bar reading "Check out the Posting Contest and Referral Contest" doesn't. It looks completely out of place . If you want extra exposure for a contest, you should make a "Global Announcement." That will "announce" your competition in every category.
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Average
[note]========== BEGIN - Site Statistics ==========[/note]
I'm looking at your sidebar with the latest activity on it and am disappointed. You only have (by my count) 3 posts today and 8 posts yesterday. That's poor statistics. You do have a decent average of about 25 posts per day. It looks like most of your posts were made in the forums' early days. You should try to revive the forum and get back some of the older members who use to be active.
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Average
[note]========== BEGIN - Grammar & Spelling ==========[/note]
In your category descriptions, things like "Its time for promotion" should be changed to "It's time for promotion." "Its for the admins." should be changed to "It's for the admins." You should definitely put all of your descriptions through a grammatical checker to ensure that everything is grammatically correct and makes sense to your viewers.
In your description for "Posting Packages" it reads "Need posts for your forum? This is the right place with a variety of posting packages both for forums and blogs." While this is grammatically correct, doesn't seem to make much sense. I would recommend changing it to something more like "Need posts for your forum? This is the right place to find them! We have a variety of posting packages for both forums and blogs."
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Very Poor
Final Remarks
Promotion Curve could use some work. If you raise activity and increase professionalism, you should be able to find success. Best of luck!
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I really like the design you guys are using, it brings out the gshine in your forum!
You should really try working on getting the activity on your forum up a lot more, because it seems to be a little inactive at the moment and I personally feel like it could be doing a lot better.
Try promoting it on other forums and such (that allow it), even try getting affiliates, anything that would get the activity up and wouldn't hurt the sites reputation.
Hope your site PromotionCurve works out well!
You should really try working on getting the activity on your forum up a lot more, because it seems to be a little inactive at the moment and I personally feel like it could be doing a lot better.
Try promoting it on other forums and such (that allow it), even try getting affiliates, anything that would get the activity up and wouldn't hurt the sites reputation.
Hope your site PromotionCurve works out well!
PirateAlphas
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I believe you do need to become more than just a promotion site.
I still like it though
I still like it though
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