Behind the scenes of poker forums

[freeringo]

Does NDN or anyone have any insider news about forum life?
What are the other forums doing?
How to start your own forum?
Competition amongst forums?
Are there sister forums?
Are there forums we should be aware of?
How many forums are there now?
Is poker forums growing and by how much?


The inner workings of maintaining a poker forum is quite intriguing.
Yet we know very little about the forum world.
Are there any experts out there to shed some lite on this topic?

Except Eejit, With all due respect, I am not interested in his oppinion on this subject.

[eejit101]

Fine, but fu** you, so ill post it anyway.

Forums are hard to get going. They take years of marketing, link exchanging, and development. Its a full time job.

You need to buy a domain name, host it, buy the template for the forum, get it loaded. Edit everything about it. Make up names, ideas, and whatever.

Then set up games by becoming an affiliate just about everywhere. Some casinos are merged into one group, some are seperate casinos and poker rooms, so you need to send about.... 600 emails. All different. And sign up at 600 sites. With different info.

Then you need to get links, make marketing campaigns.

Then you need people to get their sites through you, which is mainly google based. Gl with that. I do it for a job, it sucks. Only way to move up google nowadays, as everyone can manage keywords ok themselves, is paying for it, or being an old site.

After all this you then set up games, leagues, all the time spending your own money. Then you need to reward members, with your own money. Then you do promos, with your own money.

ITs basically alot of cost and effort, and if you get satisfaction from it, great, gl, and im sure itd be popular if you had the man hours to put into it.

But it really is a full time job if it gets over a certain size.

Having poker games to get new members is fine, but you need brand new members. Finding that these days = hard as anything.

Gl

[freeringo]

Didn't Rogue say he was an expert on this subject?




Hey Rogue, whats the news out there about forum life these days.




From the look of the OFC listing, forums have really boomed.




Some insight would be most helpful.




That's what we are here for.

[eejit101]

This will turn into you talking to yourself soon.

[targetguy1]

Didn't Rogue say he was an expert on this subject?




Hey Rogue, whats the news out there about forum life these days.




From the look of the OFC listing, forums have really boomed.




Some insight would be most helpful.




That's what we are here for.

i may seem forums are booming but i dont see it that way really. i seen more forums either go down the tube or merge with others this year. i would like to know the % of forum that makeit it after their first year. cant be too high

[freeringo]

i may seem forums are booming but i dont see it that way really. i seen more forums either go down the tube or merge with others this year. i would like to know the % of forum that makeit it after their first year. cant be too high

I would love to see a list of which forums are connected.

Some forums are just shells and lucky to see any activity in them.

Some forums are so big, your voice isn't heard.

[nodepositneeded]

What is the purpose of this thread?

If you are not happy here, please look elsewhere. I am sure you will be able to find a place that you will enjoy.