guild..... that gues for the nas box thingie has brought a lot of new people in ?
the problem is... we need to be unique guids to stand out.... or at least more in the same guild all at once ?
a windows re-install guid would be a good idea ? and then the first things to do after a re-install ?
were you drunk when you wrote this?
I think the guides recently have generated the most hits, would be good to see if bargains are having any impact, I know historically some bargains have.. check the stats.
One concern about a dedicated review site, is it will only be good if it has enough content and is updated fairly often, and then you still need to convert those people that visit the site to forum visitors. Essentially you will be competing against big names like bittech and I don’t think we have a chance with the man power we have, most of us have full time jobs. To do this we would need a unique selling point.. Will it blend, nopunctuation etc etc.. The fried egg brought in loads of new people, I think I may have even been an indirect result of that… Would it be rude to create a guide, maybe using the original footage?
Twitter can bring a lot of short term hits…. But Digg can bring even more I believe, and StumbleUpon even more than that.. Looking at some stats I have seen before.. If we really want to promote what we have we need buttons to do so! (Facebook, Tweet, Digg, Stumble etc..) Would be good to look at our most successful guide and get a few people to suggest it on Stumble…
BUT first things first… Let’s sort the things that caused us to lose members! Can we please please relocate the server to the other data centre? I still get terrible lag/non access at times, I expect I’m not the only one, and we don’t want to start adding to something like stumble if it is only going to result in the server melting?
Also we have Tekheads who we provide a service to for free, and I know before we have tried to get special member deals, but have heard nothing since, can we do something like free postage, or reduced postage, or free picture of Knighty with your order? Anything to get people to register here to get a bit more with Tek… We could even in our guides link to products on Tekheads and return the favour, although we already provide support? (But I don’t want to start limiting us to Tekheads products as we know how that works out!)
End of the day I think make the most use of what we have, rather than building other sites, think of some USPs to add to the forum and make it easier for people to like/dig/tweet stuff..
“If you build it
he they will come” – Field Of Dreams 1989
