I've been working on promoting my new
charity voting website. It's hard getting new visitors onto a new site, so I offered people $1 for making a few posts, advertising on the Buy/Sell forums at Digital Point and Namepros, two webmaster forums.
Both offers were very similar, but the Namepros post attracted 5 new users, while the Digital Point post has attracted none. I shall therefore try to identify the cause of this lack of interest from Digital Point visitors.
- The Namepros post was entitled
Do you want a dollar?. The DP post was entitled
Get $1 for helping this charity site, first 20 people only. I believe that the shorter, questioning, title of the Namepros post may have helped to attract more visitors.
- The NP forum has 33,130 members. The DP forum has 26,964 members. These numbers are fairly close.
- In the NP post, I just specified what people had to do to get the dollar In the DP post I described my plan.
Conclusion?While it's too early to draw a full conclusion, I'm speculating that the reason for the relative success of the NP post is due to it's simplicity and directness. I'll need to bear this in mind in my future marketing efforts.
Poker Stuff?Did a couple more SNG's with Rosie and J last night. Rosie got busted out going all in with AQo against KK. J and myself ended up heads up at the end. As usual, J got lucky and got 1st place. SMT SMT.