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Hi POTW Team,
I think having forum-owners agree to promote the election every week in our forums would be a great idea, in exchange for a list of Forum Sponsors every week, or a link to the list on the ballot, if it's lots of forums.
Also suggesting to everyone who's here consistently to link to each week's election in their signature file is a great idea,
And to share each week's election to Twitter & Facebook & Google Plus. If dozens of people agree just to do that, it will bring in more traffic.
I'm still concerned at the lack of people here in this forum, it's the same few people making all the Feedback comments and making nominations. Where are the 50 to 60 voters and their opinions? Approximately half the voters make comments during the election, sometimes nearly two-thirds, but we're not seeing them visit here to give Feedback.
I'm also not seeing many public forum promotions of the election or many links to the election in signature files.
The majority of voters are not participating in making nominations, many don't have active forums themselves...if all voters who make comments at the election would start/reactivate their forums, that would be a lot more eligible people.
Voting is up, but community-wide participation that leads to nominations has not gone up much.
Lots of people who had branded themselves a long time ago have lapsed into branding-failure and let their forums lapse and stopped visiting other forums, and some don't make comments when voting or help promote the election.
Hi Kathleen
Like you i have 8 years in adlandpro under my belt.
You have been in adlandpro as a long time active member.
This is what i'm seeing in adlandpro as you say there is lack of everything from most of the members.
The business side of adlandpro is holding it's own.The social side of adlandpro is what sucks these days.Like Kathleen buts it that have non active forums they don't post in the forums.Some may vote but they just do it and do not post.There is lack of interest in the adlandpro social.We only have a few that post full time in this forum.This is how it is all through adland.
POTW prizes will help up to a degree but it will not hold there interest for long.
Bottom Line is they want to come into the adlandpro community to place there ads and move on to another place to post there ads.
FB has Zanga games this is Huge for FB.Those Zanga Games point at the social side of the FB members.Adlandpro needs something that can bring in these kinds of people and hold them.
I'm going to Rant a little
I'm seeing in many peoples About Me.Most say they want to help people.I don't believe that for one minute.Why do i think this we'll where is the help???Where are the Votes??The social have left the building.We have lost most of those people.To save the social part of Adlandpro we need to focus on the New Adlandpro Signups This is why the 100 friends to the new members would be a good thing.Out of 100 new signups about 10 % are social.Those we need to keep in touch with the most for the POTW sake.
Dennis