When You Don't Get A New Member For

[Pinky]

When you don't get a new member for such a long time, how does it make you feel? Does it bother you?

 

[Page]

I just do not let it bother me, the end of the day having active members is more important than having people joining. You can have 10 or 20 members being active online posting 100 to 1000 posts a day and not having one person joinng

 

[Katrina]

I used to be bothered by it on Christianity Haven but now we're doing pretty well with activity that I don't notice that we haven't had a new sign up in a while. On Crafter Craze I'm more bothered by it but that's my own fault for not doing more to promote the forum.

 

[Fait]

I think active members is far better then sign ups, Some members sign up and never to be heard from again.

 

[Deleted member 49125]

I rather have active members & take care of those that are already there. I don't need a high count.

 

[Sharon]

A long time for me would be like months... and yes it would bother me because it would make me feel like I'm not doing enough to get the word out there about our community. However, as long as I have regular members signing in daily or at least weekly, I feel pretty good about that because that would indicate that I am helping content remain relevant enough to keep members coming back.

 

[Deleted member 17779]

A long time for me would be like months... and yes it would bother me because it would make me feel like I'm not doing enough to get the word out there about our community. However, as long as I have regular members signing in daily or at least weekly, I feel pretty good about that because that would indicate that I am helping content remain relevant enough to keep members coming back.

This basically sums it up for me.

When I first started out, it bothered me when I went a long time without someone joining my forum. However, I'm okay as long as people are regularly visiting and posting.

 

[TwoFace]

I think when you start out it does bother a bit until you get some decent active members. Then you automatically focus on the activity than new members.

 

[Nomad]

When I don't get new members on my forum, I will try to implement a reward system for joining and posting on the forum.

 

[Page]

awards can help but even then that dies after a while, they do not see any point for getting awards unless they know they going to get to win something at the end.

 

[KnownSyntax]

It shouldn’t bother you at all, just take more time to create unique content or things that would attract members. Over time you’ll get people who will join and stay. Just keep that mindset and don’t worry too much about the numbers.

 

[MrDawn]

I think it's subjective to different forum owners. As long as you have a lot of activity going on your forum. You should be fine.

 

[scooter]

It's definitely bothering me. I'm not sure what I can do to get folks to take a look, at least...yes, I would rather have quality users than quantity of users, and I feel we're doing okay in that regard, but my advertising really hasn't been paying dividends as yet.

 

[Page]

membership or member list isn't that important as long as traffic and content are good. like streaming you know, getting views more then worrying about follows

 

[Joshua Farrell]

It does bother me, if what I am marketing to, doesn't land me with even a few active members participating in the site. If I create something with the expectation that I will eventually get members, it doesn't bother me if I go for extended periods without a new sign up.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

When I was a younger forum admin, it bothered me.

Now I focus on the community I have and work to develop an ongoing growing relationship with them.

Then when a new member joins, I work on somehow getting them a part of the community so that they feel at home and happy to jump right in.

My advice as a growing brand myself... While you are small, enjoy being able to talk to everyone who joins the forum because once it gets bigger, it'll be harder to make time for every member.