Just as a note, I would usually rate my first impressions as part of the review, but I am going to forgo my first impressions, and just dive into an extra area that I would otherwise not do, because of how many sections a standard review has.
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Site Statistics
You probably don't want to get nagged about this a whole lot, since Cameron does own the forum, but could you see about getting Referral Directory more active? The forum has been running for a year and a half, and only managed to get 7500+ posts overall on it. It doesn't reflect well for a forum of that age, to have that many posts and 268 members. Try to get you and the rest of the staff, and Cameron to be more dedicated with posting!
Most of your boards haven't had any new content in the past month. And even in the boards that have had replies recently, most of the threads haven't been replied to in more than a month! Get everyone to want to post new topics, and to reply to topics they haven't replied to recently! If you have to, enforce a 14 post a week minimum on posting, so to ensure that everyone averages 2 posts a day! I probably will want your staff to get some of the topics to have 2 pages minimum before creating more topics, so that it looks like they are actually being posted in.
Also, get your staff to request things that haven't been requested in awhile, so to stimulate a little bit of interest in your services of any member that might be on the forum recently. It doesn't bode well for a service oriented forum, if no services but post packages are being requested at all. Infact, it looks like you don't even have a review staff team setup. Get hiring, and get your staff to start posting.
Also, after motivating your staff to start posting, and after a few days of them starting to post, send out a mass email to encourage your members to come online and post themselves. I am sure that most won't mind coming back to the forum, if you have staff posting for a few days before the email is sent out.
Rating: Poor
Originality
Honestly, the forum genre and boards aren't that original. Most of the service items you can find either here at FP, or elsewhere. Infact, the signature ads used to be a service here at FP. I suggest that you try to vary what you offer a little more. Create new services if you have to! That, or just modify what you have, to be a little bit more unique. For example, you could have 4 week signature ads, instead of 2 week ads. Or you can do affiliate ads that run for a couple of weeks.
Rating: Very Poor
Spelling & Professionalism
As far as I can tell, even though Cameron did his best to be professional during the transition of ownership, not all the staff have caught on with being professional. I have seen suggestion and feedback topics archived earlier than needed, and topics that little input was put into them, on those subjects.
Plus it appears as if you have issues with teams finishing packages being requested. There are packages currently waiting to be done, and no one has started them yet. You need to get staff who are committed, and are willing to go the extra mile to be online and actually do the jobs they are hired to do. The more dedicated staff you have, the better your forum will be, and the more active it will be also.
Rating: Very Poor
Final Remarks
You have allot of issues. Get fresh and active staff, and half of the issues will probably fix themselves. Good luck!
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