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09-14-2008, 10:54 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Dallas, Tx
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| How to attract more members? I was just wondering....... How could we go about attracting more members, other than people doing a search on Yahoo or Google? I know we have discussed a T-Shirt since many of us visit airshows and such. How about business (web address) cards to hand out? Other thoughts? Admins, if I'm overstepping my boundaries here, feel free to delete this thread and accept my appologies.
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09-15-2008, 01:14 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2007
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| Podcast.
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09-15-2008, 07:40 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Jersey
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 | Well some of my friends..absolutely love WWII aircraft I could talk to them.......All my other friends don't know I like WWII aircraft shhhhh! |
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09-15-2008, 09:35 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Central Coast, NSW, Australia
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| Word of mouth. Mention it when you go into model shops and the like, even make up a flyer and print 20 of them off and leave them there. But then again, there's 18,000 members, and probably 150-200 active at least once a week. So why are they coming, joining and never posting, or never coming back? I know it's the way it goes with all forums, but still.
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09-15-2008, 09:36 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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| Get some of the lassies from "Breaking News" thread as members! 
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09-15-2008, 10:11 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Dallas, Tx
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| See!!!! That's why I like you, Jan. We think alike!!!! ha ha ha
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09-15-2008, 10:45 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Melbourne, Victoria
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| To be honest I thought the amount of 'active' members on this site was pretty impressive. Then theres people who have enough time for their interests but not say a forum. Still pushing the name can only work for the positive. 
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09-15-2008, 11:16 AM
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| "World Traveller"   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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 | Of course spreading the word is a good thing but in some ways it can be intimidating to come to a forum where the main participants have known each other for a couple of years. As a whole though I would say the forum is doing very well and it will continue to grow whether or not we spread the word.
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09-15-2008, 11:44 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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__________________ JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!" | |
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09-15-2008, 12:08 PM
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| Older Than Dirt   Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia
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| I tend to agree with Gnomey. This forum will grow with or without active work by the members to entice people to join. People do a Google search for an airplane picture or info, and they can be directed here. I'm hoping the Tee-shirt thing will get off the ground. Charles
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09-15-2008, 12:38 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Dallas, Tx
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| I agree also, and please don't misinterpret this as something negative. I am simply trying to think of ideas to make sure we are the best (not necessarily the biggest) site on the web. I wish nothing but success here, thus the 4 years of my life I've shared with you goons.
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09-15-2008, 03:54 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Jersey
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| Ya look at the User's list 97 % don't have ONE post |
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09-16-2008, 02:40 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2008 Location: New Zealand
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09-16-2008, 02:00 PM
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| The Pop-Tart Whisperer  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
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| I'm not so worried abount quantity of membership as quality of membership. Its a high standard here that I keep trying to reach (sometimes not effectively! )Looking through other boards, this is the best.
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09-16-2008, 02:39 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Ozarks
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My son-in-law is a computer web designer guy. He taught me the necessity of creating what he calls" "hyperlinks" - the meaning of which I have not got a clue. However, it has something to do with making sure the name of this website gets linked whenever ANYONE is searching for any of the words that the human mind might be thinking when searching for info about such things as: WWII airplanes air combat air forces USAF RAF aircraft military aircraft historical aircraft airplanes in war etc etc etc Somehow, there is a way to put together a huge list of such words, and then tag or connect this website WITH all of those words in cyberspace. I don't know how to do it, but he did it for my private professional website about 3 years ago, and my hits saw a steady and regular increase in number every single month thereafter. BTW, he also had a way of keeping track of my hits on graphs. 
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