Do you own a social networking site?

Discussion in 'General Business' started by netpox, Feb 5, 2007.

  1. #1
    Do you own a social networking site? How are you doing?
    Did you have a business plan or did you just start to see how it goes? How long have you had it and how many members!

    Share your story:
     
    netpox, Feb 5, 2007 IP
  2. Jaguaros

    Jaguaros Well-Known Member

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    Always u must have a business plan no matter what u do is my opinion. I have a social networking site ,not targeting in the english speaking market. Seems going well, in 3 months i start advertising it i have about 8000 registered members and now i sign up about 250-300 per day and this number is keep going up. I will start make some good revenue only if the number of registered users exceeds the 50k+ and keep my returning visitors number to 30-35% that is at the moment.

    Of course i have to mention that i took 6 months to be developed and we still developing new features for the site as to make it as unique as possible.I believe if you offer to this market sth unique u can have the results u want instead promoting just a copied one.

    Of course this is my experience up to now concerning social networking sites :)
     
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    I own a social networking site with video upload (non-english), I am getting about a 100 unique visitors a day in a month old site. I am getting good signups as of the moment considering it is a month old site.

    Right now I could say it is doing pretty good, no business thing on it yet, maybe when I get my desired traffic (as Jaguaros mentioned), then I will start to find business on it.

    If you are planning to create a social networking site, be ready to spend loads and loads of bandwidth (money involved), else, you might lose your database in a heartbeat if and when it crashes.
     
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    nizzam Active Member

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    i also own social networking site with video or website or photo upload. People can upload/post video/website/photo to my site and shared with their friends or other people
     
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    Red_Virus Well-Known Member

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    What is the software that u guys are using other than phpfox to start a Social Networking site.
     
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    nizzam Active Member

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    i am using html and php script only..
    you may see the site as below:
     
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    php/mysql running on dedicated server... custom made...
     
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    Just check http://www.alstrasoft.com/ for software to start a social site
     
    Tradegenie, Feb 14, 2007 IP
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    010081 Banned

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    i own a social networking sites just for medical students and site is http://www.medicalstudents.in , as its .in so maximum traffic is from india and indian people around the world.
    my site is new just 15 days today and i'm getting around 1000+ unique per day i guess its satisfactory for such nice site,as its very difficult to get members.i have around 300+members in 15 days
     
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    mastermemei Banned

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    do you guys know any Australian or UK based networking site? thanks
     
    mastermemei, Feb 14, 2007 IP
  11. rangan

    rangan Well-Known Member

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    Shall post a free brief review about your social networking sites in my blog and post it on a few social bookmarking sites too.
    A link back is appreciated but not mandatory.

    Pl PM me with your url. Non English sites are also welcome but I need some basic info from you in English.
     
    rangan, Mar 20, 2007 IP
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    I wrote my own script using asp.net :) you can check it at crossfriends.com
     
    ezguy, Mar 20, 2007 IP