how do you guys think this forum got so many members? i know that it took a lot of time, of course, but there had to be some marketing that went in behind it because this forum is separated from all the other webmaster forums as being the best. do you think he used adwords? link buying and seo? paid postings to begin with? i know he didnt become the best solely on luck, maybe a part of it, but im sure this all didnt happen by chance!
Hmm..that is a good question. Would probably have to get the answers from the forum owners! I'd say a combination of all of those things.
The answer is very simple and straight forward Thousands and thousand of hours of toil and input by the owner and his small team It's not rocket science It's called 'HARD WORK' oh by the way they are Smart Too
Luck, hard work, and he had a member base from his products he made. Make something innovative, and you can spin off from there
Luck and Time I believe IM got competitive somewhere during 2006. 2004 was still not that busy i guess
Talk about a vague answer. OP asks how DP got so popular and you answer with hard work. I think the ad revenue sharing concept brought in a lot of members because it was new and not many other sites used it.
I read somewhere that paid to post was involved, i will see if i can dig it up, maybe something like archive.org could give some clues? EDIT: Ohhh take a look at this http://web.archive.org/web/20040227042737/http://forums.digitalpoint.com/
haha i know terminator, everyone is saying hard work, i couldve answered that, what i was asking for was for some more specific answers!!! not these crappy answers: 1. hard work 2. workin hard 3. luck 4. lots of time 5. they were smart durrrr, thanks for all the input guys, can wait to put these tactics to use!