Comments on: Entrepreneur’s Journey Forums

By: Forums Relaunch » Internet Marketing For Small Business - Entrepreneur’s Journey - by Yaro Starak

Mon, 02 Jan 2006 02:54:49 +0000

[...] A while ago I launched a forum here at Entrepreneur’s Journey to see if there was enough community support to sustain one. There wasn’t and I removed all links to the forum and let it sit online doing nothing. [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 22:27:29 +0000

wow…thats one heck of a demand there. dont get me wrong, i was pleased to be named first in your list, oh holiness of blogs!

By: Hermann Klinke

Hermann Klinke — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 21:31:07 +0000

There seems to be a bug in your forum: “2 User(s) are reading this topic (1 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)”. I didn’t know that 1 + 0 = 2.

By: Hermann Klinke

Hermann Klinke — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 21:04:15 +0000

Yeah, not having a feed might kill it . No seriously, I don’t go to any website or forum that does not have a feed, because its to hard to keep track of them.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 16:59:09 +0000

Hey there Yaro,

To be honest with ya, I think it’s going to be hard to get this up and going. As you said – there’s nothing worse than an empty forum.

I, myself, am a member in 4 business-related forums (I lurk at about 5 others) that have thousands of members, and there’s just never enough hours in the day to do what I want with them.

Unfortunately it’s a numbers game too: there are two types of forum members IMHO. 1) the dedicated forum member who simply loves the interaction and posts and posts (in the minority) and 2) forum members who get involved but essentially are there to market themsleves (the majority).

It all depedns on what you are happy to achieve with it: a membership of say 200 (like a social network) or in the big leagues: 2000+ members.

Also, from friends in the forum field, I know that it’s a very time-consuming job managing/moderating a forum.

Personally, I’ve thought long and hard about setting up a forum myself in the past – but I decided against it: too much risk for little reward.

Sorry if this all sounds too negative – and there’s nothing wrong with closing it down (it takes guts to admit something has failed and to act on it)

After all that, good luck

By: Yaro

Yaro — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 12:53:55 +0000

No Al, new forums don’t take off because there are bigger and better forums out there that target the same markets. I think there is plenty of room for new forums provided they are unique, have a large enough market to support them AND the are promoted well.

Plus time and patience. Man, if only you could buy patience…

By: Alborz

Alborz — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 12:36:34 +0000

I am not a big fan of Forums anymore, a good example of a WORKING forum is whirlpool.net.au, mainly because they haev some 100,000 users and have been around for like 8yrs.

New forums hardly take of anymore because people prefer different methods of communication.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 09:44:24 +0000

Hi Hermann,

What you just wrote would be enough of an introduction but no pressure, you contribute if you feel you want to.

Ahh the power of RSS. Unfortunately this version of the forum doesn’t support RSS, it is too old.

Signs are not good for the forums staying around so far. I’ll give it a week or so but if it’s clear people don’t need another entrepreneurship forum I’ll delete it. An empty forum doesn’t look good for my blog

By: Hermann Klinke

Hermann Klinke — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 08:53:53 +0000

I am already registered . Is there a feed for Forum entries? I don’t think I have much to write for in an introduction. I am just a .NET Developer from Germany who wants to start his own business at some point in time.