To gain more members

[Xenn]

The forum has been growing in popularity, but we still seem to be under 40 active users during peak hours. Despite several attempts, our active member flow remains approximately the same. However, we have a new idea for a sharp boost in popularity, advertising at www.nuklearpower.com. With tens of thousands of daily active users, it would be a great way to promote the forum. Unfortunately, a month of advertising costs 200 dollars. This is a steep cost for one person (Chruser), but if you would like to donate a few dollars, we could reach the cost fairly readily, and be well on our way to hundreds of active users constantly online.

So, thanks for reading this, and all donations are greatly appreciated.

Click here (https://www.paypal.com/xclick/[email protected]&item_name=Zelaron.com+Donation&no_shipping=1) to donate to trustworthy Chruser's account via PayPal.

[Jamesadin]

Dont have Paypal, but good idea though..

[Adrenachrome]

In a few weeks I will setup a paypal account and give atleast a few bucks :D

[tacoX]

We tried with something awful. I dislike this idea.

[Randuin]

ya.... hardly anyone actualy click on those banners

[!King_Amazon!]

I never click the banners when I go to nuklearpower.com. But it's a cool site none-the-less. Brian is a cool guy too.

[tacoX]

We tried with something awful.. brought it 800 or something hits.. not worth it at all... AT ALL.

A better plan would be to sponser players.... Warcraft III that is.

[Strider Fury]

Originally posted by tacoX
We tried with something awful.. brought it 800 or something hits.. not worth it at all... AT ALL.


oh well. at least it got me and servral others here here.

[Xenn]

And nuklearpower would bring much more.. the general community there is more likely to visit forums than the people on somethingawful.

["CRØNîC-KîLLå"]

wtf is nuclearpower... i dont see anything special about it...

[!King_Amazon!]

It's the home of 8-bit, a fairly popular comic by Brian Clevenger.

[DarkestFears]

i will as soon as my next paycheck comes..

[Wiccan][V][asta]

I don't have paypal... is there any other way to donate...? :(

[Xenn]

If Chruser wanted to give you his address yeah, but the shipping would probably be pretty harsh (that is if he's in Sweden o_O)

[Randuin]

money order?

[tacoX]

There is no way in hell we should do this. Its a total waste.

[Randuin]

ya i mean we can do much more with all that money

[Chruser]

A HiveMail registration would cost $180, for instance. Very costy, but it can be 100% managed, and fully integrated with the board. In other words, a very fast webmail for all members with no popups and so on.

http://www.hivemail.com

[Lady Ice]

For what it's worth, we have you guys on our links section at Brawl-Hall. I have no idea if that is generating any traffic for you or not, but our webmaster is a cool guy anyhow. ;)

[khwiii]

Ah.. I have a question. I thought in prior discussions, this website want more quality, and more quanity. How can you insure the quality of the people that come from a banner ad? Just curious, I am sure there are other ways, if all you are interested in is sheer numbers...

I dunno... I'm still new here.

Ken

[Jamesadin]

He has a very good point. Maybe our traffic is good how it is.

[Shpook]

Well, the majority of the time the few people we don't want here will feel it and leave. I've said before, we cant expect all new members to stay. but if 20-30% of new members do stay, we'll be doing good.

[BlueCube]

Originally posted by tacoX
We tried with something awful. I dislike this idea.

*Shrug* That's how *I* found this place, through Something Awful.

Nuklearpower's biggest asset is the 8-bit Theater section, that'd be the place for banner ads.

"I like swords!"

[Randuin]

well as soon as i get my ebay thing set up with my friend i'll be able to donate in the hundreds

[Xenn]

Originally posted by BlueCube


*Shrug* That's how *I* found this place, through Something Awful.

Nuklearpower's biggest asset is the 8-bit Theater section, that'd be the place for banner ads.

"I like swords!"

Banner ads show up on every page on nuklearpower.com, including the comics.

[BlueCube]

Yeah, but are there separate charges for separate places? Or is it one flat fee to have it show up everywhere?

Probably the "show up everywhere" one...

[Randuin]

but hell... that expensive? why do we NEED that many members anyway? it's not like it let us make major cash

[slaynish]

Originally posted by tacoX
There is no way in hell we should do this. Its a total waste.

taco, u just dont wanna donate, i think its a great idea... and chruser is nice to us all, we should SOMEHOW repay him... christmas present??? i would , but lol i cant if u want me to go on WC3, or D2 ill spam like in channels with spam thing... but thats all i can really....:wierd: :p

[Chruser]

Personally, I'd rather spend the money on different things, whether it be some kind of software or a faster server. It really depends on what we could find neccesary.

If anyone would have any idea on what could benefit the board (even if it costs money), feel free to post it in this thread, or PM me. HiveMail is one thing, but of course, $180 for it is a fair lot.

[Randuin]

exactly! listen to chruser and his words of wisdom! but hivemail just isn't worth it i think

[Chruser]

Then what IS worth it? If we're not planning to spend it all on advertising, then I could appreciate to get some help to improve the board. Search engine rankings shouldn't really be neccesary.

[Thanatos]

Originally posted by !King_Amazon!
It's the home of 8-bit, a fairly popular comic by Brian Clevenger.

lol, I wish I had found this site sooner. This is hilarious. :)

[Randuin]

heh i like swords! :D

[BlueCube]

I like the fact that he slips quotes from movies into the comic..

[Randuin]

lots of ppl do that... right? i mean almost everyone copy from star wars... blah blah blah i'm ur father

[Chruser]

Payment From Tom Eagle: $5.00 Nov 30, 2002 Completed

Payment From Robin Li: $5.00 Nov 30, 2002 Completed

That's right, taco and Randuin donated. :D

[!King_Amazon!]

I really don't like the idea. What's the point in PAYING for members? We get plenty of new ones every day anyway, they just don't stay. We need to spend the money on something that will hook the members, not bring them.

[Randuin]

tom eagle = taco's daddy! :D

[khwiii]

Another question, Maybe the users of this forum have something they wanna pawn off, Hence maybe they could pay you to put a link on a sponser page? I dunno if anyone here is interested.. or has something they wanna get out there... Just another thought

LOL and i am still new here.

ken

[Adrenachrome]

Originally posted by khwiii
Another question, Maybe the users of this forum have something they wanna pawn off, Hence maybe they could pay you to put a link on a sponser page? I dunno if anyone here is interested.. or has something they wanna get out there... Just another thought

LOL and i am still new here.

ken

Perfect!

[LiveWire]

if it helps any i have a banner on my website for zelaron

[Jamesadin]

Good job. You have recieved a gold star.

[Gsus]

you should have a d2 item donation type thing. Then sell those items on ebay....im assuming theres a lot of people under 18 who visit zelaron that dont have a paypal account, but would donate items from d2.

:bling:

unless of course you already have that set up, and ive never seen it, because i fear leaving the d2 section.

[Penguin]

*STICKYED*

[Penguin]

Sorry, I win!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Payment To Christian Hagg -50.00 Dec 4, 2002 Completed

[Chruser]

That's it, I'm making a donation section. :D

[LiveWire]

Originally posted by Gsus
you should have a d2 item donation type thing. Then sell those items on ebay....im assuming theres a lot of people under 18 who visit zelaron that dont have a paypal account, but would donate items from d2.

:bling:

unless of course you already have that set up, and ive never seen it, because i fear leaving the d2 section.


Love your idea makeing thread now;)

[Randuin]

rofl donate section? :D

[LiveWire]

Hey, what ever it takes to help out zelaron, Im there

[Randuin]

well ya once i'm verified i'm gonna think of tons of crazy ideas to get cash... and well it's tons of cash for zel :D

[JRwakebord]

verified for what? and is there anything those of us without paypal can do?

[Chruser]

"There are currently 12 members and 129 guests on the boards."

They just aren't signing up. Altering the colors of the registration button doesn't help at all. Oh, of course, members isn't everything, but it's always fun to have more active people, especially outside the D2 forum as well. :)

[Adrenachrome]

Wow we have a huge amount of guests at the moment. Without a d2 dupe method posted.. Where are they coming from?

And is there an estimate for how many of the guests would join or something?

[Gsus]

people are probably trying to find out info about bots and banning....bnet caused alot of curiosity, and i know i found this site searching for more info about pindle bots.

[Titusfied]

What do you mean, "outside of the D2 Forum" Chruser. I thought Zelaron was stricktly a D2 Forum?

;)

[slaynish]

well, lol i recently joined, and well that was like 2 month ago maybe im not countin, but the thing that pissed me off is i had to fill out that crappy registration form... it took too long, i just wanted to get to the point and post lol.... Maybe you can take some of that stuff out like the thing where u post what ur dream job is lol i dont think anyone realy wasts time on that(not that i dont like it) (i actually liked that one) and there was somthing that i cant rember made me want to go though that giant regristration form... i know ! its bcuz i was a d2 fan looking for free stuff! thx adrenachrome =) actually a lot of Nice people drove me here, like king amazon and adrena, i think the nicer we are to ppl, the more they come, and i told my friend about zel... fighter_ba, dont scare him off lol he is a nooblet

[WetWired]

Much of the registration form is optional or works fine with default values.

[tacoX]

*UnStikied*
- Off topic and a waste of money.

[Randuin]

may be we can MAKE them register before they read the forums :D

[Titusfied]

It cost money to sticky posts?

[Xenn]

How about this:

A quick register box!

Since guests don't see the quick reply box, we could just have 4 fields, Name, Password, Email, Verify Email. I think this would make many people sign up, because they obviously think that the register form is intimidating.

[WetWired]

So where do you propose that this quick register box appear?

[Penguin]

Originally posted by Xenn
How about this:

A quick register box!

Since guests don't see the quick reply box, we could just have 4 fields, Name, Password, Email, Verify Email. I think this would make many people sign up, because they obviously think that the register form is intimidating.

I think the verify email is intimidating >=x

[Xenn]

As was inferred in my original text, "Since guests don't see the quick reply box..."

It could go in that space. Maybe we could do something about the verify email, like not require it until you've been registered for 5 days.

Actually, I think that would be very beneficial. It'd take some work, but it'd be good for posting on vbulletin.org as well.

[WetWired]

The verify e-mail is to ensure that the address was typed correctly, so that you will not lock out a username from use.

[Xenn]

Er sorry, I meant activate account (via email) not verify email.

[WetWired]

The point of activate through e-mail is to reduce the ease of flooding and to assist in keeping banned people banned.

[Xenn]

But does it? And that's why we could set it as temp, so maybe they have an hour or two to do stuff before they are required to activate.

[WetWired]

Then the flooders wouldn't have to activate.

[Xenn]

Ok, well anyways, we need it on the DiabloForum, StarcraftForum, and WarcraftForum also because those are probably the 2nd most popular styles for guests. I added the same template to DiabloForum, but apparently it didn't work.