Comments on: Don’t build a boring online community

By: Dotti Driver

Dotti Driver — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:22:04 +0000

Keeping it fun and informative for your target group is necessary for it’s survival. I’ve seen some successful online communities, but it seems like there are far more unsuccessful ones than successful ones out there.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:34:54 +0000

Thanks for the insight. I am a Realtor and when I send out my newsletter it says very little about real estate (they already know what I do). If you can’t capture their attention, and hold it, what’s the point. thanks again, good job.

By: Don

Don — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:28:06 +0000

i attempted a forum on one of my pc reapair sites while back, had the hardest time with it. had polls, surveys, and unique content and info, but it just never took off at all. comments and info here is very helpful and informative, thanx!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:46:52 +0000

I’ve been trying to build my facebook group for my business for a while putting out what I hope is good content and I guess I always wonder if I’m doing the right thing as I don’t get many people leaving replies – however i think I’m following most of the points you’ve made so perhaps I am on the right track:)

By: Steve Marino

Steve Marino — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:01:36 +0000

A nice read; the “why” aspect is generally the most difficult aspect of maintaining an online community. Even if you have a base community to start with, attracting new blood into your project is the very difficult part especially when there is a shift in the forum make-up which the original people don’t particularly like.

By: Mardah Beatz

Mardah Beatz — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:40:27 +0000

omgeee, I’ve been to sooo many boring communities, it’s like people just build them just to have a site and don’t even care what kind of content they post BORINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

By: jim

jim — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:14:23 +0000

Online communities is like any community, it’s about the people involved. I go down to my local pub more often than I go to the fancy places downtown not because I love wobbly stools and poor liquor selection, I go for the guys I know will be there. Same with every forum I am signed up too.

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By: Victor

Victor — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:55:15 +0000

Building a community is hard if you start from 0. The best way is to have a site with traffic and then build a community with some of all that traffic. If you have 1000 users a day it is easier to get 3 or 4 registrations a day.

The problem right now is that there are a lot of communities and you have to offer something different. I liked this post, insteresting point of view.

By: Justin Ledvina

Justin Ledvina — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:12:42 +0000

I’m a member of a few popular marketing/business forums and they seem to go hot and cold all the time. Sadly the hot times are usually based around people bickering and the cold is when people are agreeing.

I know I won’t post something unless I disagree with something someone said most of the time. No need to throw in my “ya I agree with you” post as it seems pointless.

Some of the most discussed topics in these business/marketing forums have nothing to do with either but religion and or politics.