Team Geared Up

I like the site design Robin but I think one needs to be really patient nowadays for a niche website to takeoff. There’s just so much choice now that every new content site is a microscopic needle in a cosmic haystack.

My main business revolves around forum which I started 7 years ago. Eventhough it was focused on quite a niche and the online audience was so much smaller back then, it was relatively quick to gather momentum.

On the other had I started off another niche focused forum two years ago which is only now gathering any kind of momentum in terms of participation.

What I have found is that people are very slow to jump first - ie. to start talking (to themselves?) where few others are talking. But if if a forum/feedback/comment area seems busy people are much more inclined to participate. It is the proverbial chiken and egg problem. One way to kick start things is to invite your friends, associates, anyone you can bribe to comment as much as they can. That’s what I did in 1998 and it was incredibly effective.

Best of luck with the new site!

Or talk to yourself, under different usernames… cough cough, did I say that?

You could try that too Robin….. we would have never stooped so low of course! :p ;-)