http://www.danielfischer.com/2006/09/28/a-key-into-a-communities-success/ Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Los Angeles, Technology, Geek, Science, Life Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:58:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.danielfischer.com/2006/09/28/a-key-into-a-communities-success/#comment-63 Daniel Fisch... Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:20:23 +0000 http://www.danielfischer.com/2006/09/28/a-key-into-a-communities-success/#comment-63 [...] What you need to do, is make sure your forum, or community - whatever has a target audience. What does that mean? A niche. If you do not have a niche, you’ll fail sorry. No, a general topic forum will not succeed. There’s no chance, just give up on that thought. You have to be more creative than that to have a successful community these days. If you have chosen a community that is centered around the idea of a certain topic, THEN you might be successful. You still have to ask yourself if you have countless hours to spend on plugging your community and getting QUALITY link backs. The first thing I suggest you to do after you get a niche, is to make sure your forum looks good for your target audience. If your community looks like shit, you will have the hardest time in the world getting an active community. It would take years upon years to actually have any mass to activity. Think of it as a first impression, if someone doesn’t like the colors, or it’s just “meh” they’ll close the site and never come back. I have written a nice article on how to give a a community a professional look and feel (That is what you want to aim for, be professional. By being professional you can reach out to your audience and make them trust the site). [...] [...] What you need to do, is make sure your forum, or community - whatever has a target audience. What does that mean? A niche. If you do not have a niche, you’ll fail sorry. No, a general topic forum will not succeed. There’s no chance, just give up on that thought. You have to be more creative than that to have a successful community these days. If you have chosen a community that is centered around the idea of a certain topic, THEN you might be successful. You still have to ask yourself if you have countless hours to spend on plugging your community and getting QUALITY link backs. The first thing I suggest you to do after you get a niche, is to make sure your forum looks good for your target audience. If your community looks like shit, you will have the hardest time in the world getting an active community. It would take years upon years to actually have any mass to activity. Think of it as a first impression, if someone doesn’t like the colors, or it’s just “meh” they’ll close the site and never come back. I have written a nice article on how to give a a community a professional look and feel (That is what you want to aim for, be professional. By being professional you can reach out to your audience and make them trust the site). [...]

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