Why does none want to be a staff in my forum?

Personally I think the design looks fine. However, the InfoLinks ads on the home page may be off-putting to a lot of visitors to the forum. When your forum is starting out, those ads generally earn very little. It's probably as well to leave them off the forum, at least until it is much more active than it is now.

Next I'd focus on building activity on the forum. Perhaps run a contest to encourage members to start posting. It will be much easier to find staff members, when your forum is more active, plus that's when you will actually need staff.

Moneyman said:
...it's a new internet marketing forum..
You might also want to make it clearer what your forum is about. I'm not sure that a first time visitor to your site, would know that it has anything to do with internet marketing.
 
Why do you NEED staff on a new forum?

The answer: You don't. 😉
 
First of all, the theme is somewhat boring. The logo seems to be made from those old year 2000 online logo makers.

The text ads that are covering the whole forum are very offputting on your forum. Makes me know right then and there you are just after money.
 
Like Fergal, I think the theme is fine. It's not a problem.

You don't need too many staff when you're just starting. I mean in most cases (unless you're running a forum promotion site where you need review teams, people to do post packages, etc...) you don't need more than yourself for staff until you have over 50 members. In fact,
too many staff at start can have an adverse affect. (People may think you're dying especially if the staff aren't pulling their weight.)
For your site, since you have a review section you could probably handle all the reviews yourself for now because that service isn't actually finished/open yet. And when you do get it finished/open, you likely won't have a ton of members requesting reviews at first. (So there is no need for a whole staff team to handle it right away.)

Though when you do actually need staff, let me be up front with you... It's actually pretty difficult to find staff. Sometimes you'll get people who tell you they'll help out... But they vanish or don't help or worse, they mess your forum up. And generally the best practice is to hire right from within your member base. (Since they're more likely to be loyal to your site and want to see it succeed.)

Another thing to take note of, there are people who will be staff on sites if you pay them real money. But I personally advise against them because just because they're paid doesn't mean they'll do a good job or that they'll stick around.


However, with all that stated, you may want to have a look about your forum and tighten things up. Like you have a lone straggler forum called "Dragonforum" under "forum". To a guest that looks a bit odd. Why not place it up in your "General Discussion" category and retitle that single forum to "Announcements" (or something like that). And then of course get rid of that category titled "forum"

While you're at it, perhaps merge "strategies" and "offline marketing" into one forum for now since offline marketing is a subset of strategies.


As a side note, I'd watch what you write in your replies because the owner's attitude can also turn people off from joining or wanting to be staff. I mean one reply you posted:

Having somebody join your forum by mouth advertising is a pretty hard job to do as some people only join a forum if they are interested by it. Sonic the Hedgehog is not a very clever forum subject, as it was only a game, and if your forum was only about a game to chat about, people won't join at all.
Or almost nobody would join.
Source

That comment came off pretty insulting to that member. (You called their forum stupid... and essentially insulted their entire member base. Plus you basically just dismissed virtually every forum based off games too by simple virtue of they're based off games. That's not a way to get people to want to join your forum. Especially considering how many forums there are based off games.)
 
Well, not everyone has a lot of time open to be working on a site. They may have a relationship, family, friends, real job, and jobs on other sites so adding more sites onto their schedule would just make it harder on them.

Its not that they don't want to, its just that they may not have enough time to add more jobs on top of what they already have.

Give it time. People will come alone and want to join your site and work for you as staff. 😉
 
Fergal said:
Moneyman said:
What do you mean there are text ads?
You can see them in this screenshot http://www.diigo.com/item/image/17mfp/05g6

I can't see them. They aren't text ads placed by the owner, they are from a program on your computer/browser I think as that happened to me until I uninstalled the program. Forgot what it is called but just check your computer.
 
Samious said:
...they are from a program on your computer/browser....
I don't think that's it. If you look at the source code of the site you will see this;
<script type="text/javascript">
var infolink_pid = 13183;
var infolink_wsid = 2;
var infolink_link_color = '008000';
</script>
around line 623. That's where the ads are coming from.
 
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