Hi, I have been doing a little marketing trying to promote my new site Apopularitycontest.com. It's not really a forum, but I think fits in the same category. I was wondering for those of you that have busy forums how fast did your membership grow? My first month I got 54, my second month I got 55 new members. Sound good?
First of all i must say, very interesting site you got there. But like you said it is not really a forum so it is hard to compare it with forum. On the other hand, you have a growing trend (54, 55) so i think you are doing great.
I would say you are doing fine, may want to look into better advertising tho. Possibly myspace or other sites where you can target young adults.
You're doing well, I've got a rate of growth a little bigger but I guess it's all about the content and the audience, huh?
Yeah, 50 members per month is pretty good, though I'd aim for maybe 5 new members per day over the next 6 months or so, personally. You're doing well though, congrats!
Sounds pretty good. I started with 50 new members a day In a very targeted niche...now I do around 10-25 a day..(not fantastic but...it's a lot of fun.)
50 new members a day, that I would like! I plan on doing a press release on it next week so maybe that will help.
The only thing I would add is that getting signups is great but what really counts is participation, judging by the number of votes and polls I would say you are right on track! good luck.
That is for sure, I have some members that spend at least 20 minutes on the site everyday. I even get a lot of non members that just sit their voting on all of the polls, and the more polls I get the longer they stay.
I've been wondering about this as well. I had a support forum for MSRS that I put on new domain and then things just flew. I've had 200 sign-ups in the past 2 weeks and several thousands of posts, and I was asking myself if that was good, bad or just par for the course. I'm feeling a little better about it now though
Well I dont think that getting memebers really matters that much it would be good to see that how many of them post regularly if many of them post regularly then its good start for your new forum.
75 new members in first two weeks for me. 200+ threads 500+ posts is that a good return? i'm thinking not!
The most popular forum I ever created only had 6,500 members - so I'm probably not the person to ask, but I think that's a great start.
Yeah, I would imagine 6500 members would be great, if even with only 10% daily participation. Got to just keep plugging away I guess. I'll be happy if I hit 2k in a years time.
You should try and see what really worked for you. For example if you had started 3 different campaigns to get traffic / users to your site 1. Adwords 2. Banner advertising 3. Forum posts (like in DP etc) And see what actually got more users for you. Then you should try and do that on a larger scale to get increased number of users to the site.