Comments on: GPS Site Confusion…ideas? http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2005/10/gps-site-confusionideas.html talking about outdoor adventure... Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:30:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: James Corbett http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2005/10/gps-site-confusionideas.html#comment-176 James Corbett Tue, 01 Nov 2005 19:48:29 +0000 http://www.bytesurgery.com/gearedup/2005/10/gps-site-confusionideas.html#comment-176 You could try that too Robin..... we would have never stooped so low of course! :p ;-) You could try that too Robin….. we would have never stooped so low of course! :p ;-)

]]> By: Robin http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2005/10/gps-site-confusionideas.html#comment-175 Robin Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:53:27 +0000 http://www.bytesurgery.com/gearedup/2005/10/gps-site-confusionideas.html#comment-175 Or talk to yourself, under different usernames... cough cough, did I say that? Or talk to yourself, under different usernames… cough cough, did I say that?

]]> By: James Corbett http://blog.TeamGearedUp.com/2005/10/gps-site-confusionideas.html#comment-174 James Corbett Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:51:04 +0000 http://www.bytesurgery.com/gearedup/2005/10/gps-site-confusionideas.html#comment-174 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! 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!

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