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Retention Creating a welcoming environment
I think recognizing members for what they do in your community is very important. A welcome message? I am not sure if anyone actually reads it. Having introduction section and also ask me anything section can be good to know your members.- Nomad
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- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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Engagement Incentives For Posting
I think enabling tips based system and rewarding the best poster can be a good idea to improve activities. If you give incentives to all poster, this can break your bank. Providing incentives to all posters will also make people post fr incentives, and it will bring in low quality posts...- Nomad
- Post #20
- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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Foundation Should your community have a mission statement? Why or why not?
I think having a mission statement is very important. Your community should have a goal, without it you will never go anywhere. You need to know exactly where you want to steer your community, you need to have a vision where you want to take your community. It does not matter whether your...- Nomad
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- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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General Would you take over an old member account?
I have never done it and I do not think this can be called ethical, if you want to run a forum that has a genuine discussions. Who do you want to impress by taking over old account to give a sense that your community is active.- Nomad
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- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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Growth If you could go back and create your forum again, what would you do differently?
I operate an investment forum. If I have to go back and create this forum again one thing I would do it hire expert writers can ask them to create at least 500 high quality topics then only open the forum publicly. I made a mistake of hiring low quality writers and ended up with a lot of low...- Nomad
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- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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General Should forum owners be subject matter experts?
If not experts, they should at least have above average knowledge about the niche. Forums are discussion boards where you share your views, if you know nothing about the topic, how would you be able to create topics and reply on the topics. However, this is basically for niche forum, for a...- Nomad
- Post #7
- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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Engagement How do you keep your community engaged during slow periods?
I have never done events on my forums, even if I do events, I do not think I would be able to get a lot of engagements. For your promotional events to succeed, you already need active members, if you do not have active members who post voluntarily, events might not help you. I think personal...- Nomad
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- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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Growth Individual member loyalty targeting
I think giving importance to a member can actually encourage him to remain active on the forum. Normally, I post only on forums where I am a staff, a paid poster, or have certain kind of interest. However, I also post on forums where the staff and the admin gives me importance and appreciates...- Nomad
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- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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Engagement How many threads do you need to make on a daily basis?
"Need?" I am not sure if there is something like the "need to create x number of threads daily" I believe a community needs new content and it could be threads as well as posts. A lot of threads without any responses also do not look good in a community.- Nomad
- Post #10
- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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Engagement Are controversial topics a key to engagement?
I loved how you re-framed the same questions to create controversial questions! I think controversies are good for the community, but I also believe that you need to take a lot of care on monitoring the discussions because some posts might knowing or unknowingly hurt other members. For instance...- Nomad
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- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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Growth Should Small Communities Focus on Competing with Big Players?
I am against competing with any other communities, either big or small. Instead of being in competition, you should actually, utilize their member base, yo would use other forms to advertise your forums, and bring their members to your community as well. You don't benefit much for being in a...- Nomad
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- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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Growth How often do you get new members?
Not too frequently, and sadly I don't get any voluntary sign ups on my forums. I get new members only when I hire for paid posting, engage on post exchange, sometimes also through a posting package. One of my biggest problems is not being able to get new members to sign up because they actually...- Nomad
- Post #10
- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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Growth What are the best ways to bring in revenue in your community?
I lost my first Amazon Associate account because I did not sell a single product in six months. I managed to sell some products with my second account but Amazon has not been great for me. I tried Vigilinks for my blogs but it did not work. I would like to explore selling ad space, which I have...- Nomad
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- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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Growth What are the best ways to bring in revenue in your community?
I have used all of these methods for my blogs but I have only used Adsense for my forums. I think Adsense can earn you a decent amount if you have regular traffic and activities. However, I would like to explore selling merchandise on my forums. Have you tried it?- Nomad
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- Forum: Building & Growing Your Community
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Completed Golden Posting Package Please
I have completed my part- Nomad
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- Forum: Completed Orders
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CodyCool Has Arrived!!
Hello CodyCool, good to see you here. Have you bought new boots or are you still wearing them. :P- Nomad
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- Forum: Introduce Yourself
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Hi!
Hello gwolf, good to see you here. Thanks fore joining in.- Nomad
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- Forum: Introduce Yourself
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Completed Forum Posts
We are merging the forums so we have kept it offline. Forum will be back on Monday.- Nomad
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- Forum: Completed Orders
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Team Building What Perks Do You Give to Your Staff?
Currently, I have just one forum and I have no staff. However, a couple of years ago I was running multiple forums and I had a few staff. I used to give them cash for the work they were doing on my forums. My forums used to generate revenue Through Adsense and I used to keep 50 percent to myself...- Nomad
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