The swap meet was fun yesterday. We could totally have more events like that and a stronger community here on the box.
I think right now we have no presence outside of this forum. What are ways we can branch out ?
1. Post a link on your facebook, surely each of us have at least 1 fish friend. If we all reached just 1 person we could double.
2. Post a craigslist ad with the keywords, Fish Tank, Aquarium, Cichlid etc. This is especially important if your local craigslist is not the Seattle. Theres a lot of counties we could be outreaching too.
3. Post a link to the forum on sponsor store's facebook pages. This will help get them active again as well as more potential eyes to see us.
4. Add the WFB forum to forum signature links. When you're making posts on other forums, let locals know there's a common forum.
What we can do once people are here? We need content and active people around.
1. Make it a goal to post at least 1 message a day on the forum. Doesn't have to be a new topic. But weighing in on something is always helpful.
2. We have a TON of sub categories on this forum. We should either condense a lot of them or make an effort to post in them. If someone loves saltwater reef tanks and see the last post in that forum is 4 months ago, they wont sign up as it's dead.
3. Contests. I'd be willing to put up some prizes for the pic of the month/other contests we do. This keeps people coming back and makes them sign up etc.
4. Utilize the buy/sell forum. This is one of the biggest lures of any fish forum.
I'd suggest posting here when you make a craigslist ad, post to your facebook etc. If we can see eachother's outreach it'll keep us motivated to grow. Also when you post in this forum look at how many registered users there are and post it. We can track how many we are gaining.
I think right now we have no presence outside of this forum. What are ways we can branch out ?
1. Post a link on your facebook, surely each of us have at least 1 fish friend. If we all reached just 1 person we could double.
2. Post a craigslist ad with the keywords, Fish Tank, Aquarium, Cichlid etc. This is especially important if your local craigslist is not the Seattle. Theres a lot of counties we could be outreaching too.
3. Post a link to the forum on sponsor store's facebook pages. This will help get them active again as well as more potential eyes to see us.
4. Add the WFB forum to forum signature links. When you're making posts on other forums, let locals know there's a common forum.
What we can do once people are here? We need content and active people around.
1. Make it a goal to post at least 1 message a day on the forum. Doesn't have to be a new topic. But weighing in on something is always helpful.
2. We have a TON of sub categories on this forum. We should either condense a lot of them or make an effort to post in them. If someone loves saltwater reef tanks and see the last post in that forum is 4 months ago, they wont sign up as it's dead.
3. Contests. I'd be willing to put up some prizes for the pic of the month/other contests we do. This keeps people coming back and makes them sign up etc.
4. Utilize the buy/sell forum. This is one of the biggest lures of any fish forum.
I'd suggest posting here when you make a craigslist ad, post to your facebook etc. If we can see eachother's outreach it'll keep us motivated to grow. Also when you post in this forum look at how many registered users there are and post it. We can track how many we are gaining.
Could be fun. I'll hit up some reps for some prizes hopefully.
