Do your staff promote?

[Martee]

Do you find that you end up doing all the forum-to-forum promotional work for your site which including paying for reviews, packages, posting threads here there and everywhere or does your staff actually help you out?

Personally, our staff don't help us but we don't really expect them too. We have our current user base and we're happy with it so we do only minimal advertising anyway!

 

[Sam1]

I wouldn't expect staff to promote- if they do it's cause they love the site!

 

[Martee]

You'd hope that they love the site or at least like it if they became staff though

 

[Allan]

I do all the promoting myself for my forum. Sometimes I feel like that's all I do at times.

 

[Sam1]

I do all the promoting myself for my forum. Sometimes I feel like that's all I do at times.

That's the hardest part, spending ages promoting your forum- you just have to hope that it gets you some really active members....

 

[Martee]

I do all the promoting myself for my forum. Sometimes I feel like that's all I do at times.

It pays off eventually Allan.

 

[Allan]

Sometimes it wears you out, because in the mist of all the promoting you still need time to post an be active.

 

[Hotmess]

All by myself.

I need to update my own forum with fresh contents at the same time score the internet to promote it. Daunting doesn't being to explain it

 

[ford1001]

I have asked a fellow staff member just to put us in her signature on forums but not go out and actively advertise, I don't expect them to, that is unless I hire someone for advertising only, other than that it isn't in their job criteria, if they do it's something extra.

 

[Sam1]

I have asked a fellow staff member just to put us in her signature on forums but not go out and actively advertise, I don't expect them to, that is unless I hire someone for advertising only, other than that it isn't in their job criteria, if they do it's something extra.

Some people expect staff to advertise on a new forum- when they aren't paying them anything.... I think staff will advertise if they truly believe the forum is something special....

 

[Jason1]

It is upto them, i won't force or ask a staff to promote it in different sites..

 

[razelia]

I wouldn't expect staff to promote- if they do it's cause they love the site!

This! It's up to them if they'll be promoting, but the usually do since they love working for the site.

 

[dojo]

You really need to set the roles for the staff and not make them do more than they're supposed to. I'd expect the forum owner(s) to work on the promotion, it's their forum, their job. Moderators should help with the cleaning and be a little active too. That's what they need to do in my forums. it's not their business to promote the forums. of course, if they feel like it, it's OK, but their role is not this.

 

[Brentnauer]

Do you find that you end up doing all the forum-to-forum promotional work for your site which including paying for reviews, packages, posting threads here there and everywhere or does your staff actually help you out?

Personally, our staff don't help us but we don't really expect them too. We have our current user base and we're happy with it so we do only minimal advertising anyway!

In my case, any moderator I select would be doing the moderating in his free time. I certainly wouldn't expect them to go out of their way to promote us elsewhere. A forum signature would be nice but that's up to them.

 

[Sam1]

I have in the past bumped a few of the WGBB promotion topics because I really want more people to know about, and join, this forum!

 

[Atlaerom]

See. I had a problem on the first forum I ran, and that was that I was the sole and only one promoting it. It fell behind with activity as often I simply couldn't keep up.

The second time. I had such helpful staff, and even members were great!

 

[dexterlablab1]

I've never personally asked my staff to promote. But because of the nature of my site and because the amount of traffic helps THEIR pockets, they normally promote when they can without me asking.

 

[Kevin1]

If I were to hire staff, they would be required to promote.

 

[dexterlablab1]

If I were to hire staff, they would be required to promote.

I can understand that. In all honestly, if they're being paid, that does mean technically they should shoulder at least some of the traffic responsibility.

 

[Kevin1]

I can understand that. In all honestly, if they're being paid, that does mean technically they should shoulder at least some of the traffic responsibility.

Even if they are volunteers, if they actually want to help the forum, they should be obligated to promote