Why are you sick of new promotion forums ?
- Thread starter Dylan
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A mod might want to split some of these posts into a ForumCon thread.
Moving on though, you don't need a high profile event with a stage and thousands of people. You really just need to book a couple of conference rooms, bring in like 40 people, and do a little talk and get the admins to meet and greet. Maybe, have some snacks or pizza.
That shouldn't be anywhere near as pricey to arrange, and if it goes well, then up the scale in a year or six months or whenever the next one is held. If things go spectacularly, then the sponsors will come looking on their own.
Moving on though, you don't need a high profile event with a stage and thousands of people. You really just need to book a couple of conference rooms, bring in like 40 people, and do a little talk and get the admins to meet and greet. Maybe, have some snacks or pizza.
That shouldn't be anywhere near as pricey to arrange, and if it goes well, then up the scale in a year or six months or whenever the next one is held. If things go spectacularly, then the sponsors will come looking on their own.
We had one going called PromotionSea at one time and it was even getting a following, but the co-owner, no offense to him, kept switching themes and messing with the code. Honestly, the original XenForo for it was the best.
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Deleted member 32117
Why am I tagged in this lol.
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Deleted member 32117
If my contributions where great why am I tagged in this post it should be announced on the forum then just posted here... @Jason76
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Shannon Apple
Resident
If you start up a promotion forum and go and promote it here, what the heck is the point? I mean, all you're doing is riding off the back of FP, you'll get some of FPs members briefly, but you'll never actually be successful because FP has the niche. There is TAZ as well that also works somewhere within the same bracket.
They need to be doing something completely different than this site. I joined one or two of them to be nice, since I was asked to, but I didn't stick around.
They need to be doing something completely different than this site. I joined one or two of them to be nice, since I was asked to, but I didn't stick around.
That's partly because jumping onto FP and posting around doesn't really cut it for setting up a competitor. You likely have to sink a fair bit of money, blast around social media, build something unique, etc.
Or you could create a thread in the Webmaster forum in here for PromotionGrid or PromotionWorld or whatever names they like using and pray that users will decide to be active on their own.
It would probably be cheaper to just buy FP. And if I recall, TAZ doesn't let users promote competitors at all, probably a reasonable policy, although people probably won't jump anyway.
Shannon Apple
Resident
Absolutely. When we had anime-forums.com, it had a #1 Google rank for the term "anime forums." There was absolutely no way that we allowed people to advertise competitors there. They could put a forum in their sig space only if it wasn't a competitor. We even had a line in the rules about it being like "Burger King advertising McDonald's." That didn't stop people trying on numerous occasions to go under the radar. Members tend to get quite precious about their forums and report people who do it via PM anyway. I generally feel that way too about the forums I frequent and love. There's no reason to use those tactics on FP, but if someone did it, I'd be mega angry. I'd never do it on someone else's forum either, it's low. 🙂
A person wanting posts, exposed to more promotion forums - simply gets more posts! OK, what's the bad deal in that?
There are only so many hours in the day, my time is too precious to waste on promotion sites which might go belly-up next week.
Also, it's a matter of efficiency, am I really going to get that much value out of a bunch of half-dead sites in contrast to a different avenue for promotion?
For the more cynical, it will take more convincing. For instance, a big battle with many sites is gaining trust, not only with search engines, but with buyers.
Shannon Apple
Resident
You don't get more posts though. It's the same people on all of them because they're all riding on FP's coat tails. If they got the bulk of their audience elsewhere, I might agree with you. They're just mini FPs. They're not bothering to do anything different. They just want to cash in on what this site has already achieved.
As a forum admin, FP and TAZ are the only two sites that are actually worth my time. (Maybe the Xenforo site for something specific) It's not really about the posts, but information sharing. I learn new things on both sites and maybe somewhere, I hope one of my posts might have helped someone else. I've availed of some of FPs packages and those are helpful whenever the forum gets slack. It does need a kick up the butt to get our members posting again, here and there. 😛
To tell you the truth, if you have a lot of time on your hands to spend on 5 promotion sites, you'd be much better off getting a good social media presence going, and actually making sure to communicate with your followers. More chance of some real members joining that haven't been bribed. I'm not trying to be cynical, just feel that there's more chance of a real audience that way. Hehe!
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Standing out from the crowd.
That is the hardest thing with any forum, not just promotion forums. You have to create a community that is going to stand out, unless you are a community that is the first with the niche`.
That is the hardest thing with any forum, not just promotion forums. You have to create a community that is going to stand out, unless you are a community that is the first with the niche`.
I could *probably* setup a successful promotion forum, contrary to popular belief about the niche being a dead end. But, it would probably take five years, not the... I launch it and they will come thing that people expect.
And at that point, you might as-well just buy a successful promotion / admin forum.
And at that point, you might as-well just buy a successful promotion / admin forum.
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