Latest Donation Campaign, new forum features and tweaks.
Entry posted by LaaMok
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[b]Making Pattaya addicts a one stop shop for pictures, videos, news, socialising and reviews - a bigger fix for members that are Pattaya addicts![/b]
We started Power Users over a year ago and our progress in increasing traffic through various methods have helped us increase traffic in various metrics. A years worth of progress can be seen throughout [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/topic/76980-power-users-supporting-the-forum-buying-domains-to-increase-traffic/"]this thread,[/url] the purpose of this thread was to prove that the donations are being spent and to educate and make members feel part of the community project.
Alot of forum owners do very little external work outside the forum and talk about lots of costs to keep the forums running, however my approach is to keep pushing the forum because I enjoy it and it benefits the users through more extensive info, faster replies, more discounts and trying to create a community in Pattaya, where guys can support each other.
We have now reached 4th place for "pattaya" on google.com, this is one of 40-50 rising keywords that can be seen on that thread. (only available to advanced users) The marketing approach basically started online and now I am looking at on the ground advertising, I have been speaking with business owners about co-branding and I have been putting stickers around. I had a meeting yesterday with a local nightclub to drum up some ideas of getting us more members from customers visiting their venue. (more info coming soon)
Baht bus advertising and flyers have been organised for awareness around town. The flyers wont be handed out on the street as that doesn't work, they will be handed to a captive farang audience at their homes through farang food deliveries.
[b]Lastest donation campaign[/b]
We started a quick donation campaign with a 2759 USD target to cover buying 1298 USD of domains, 10,000 baht for flyers, 10,000 baht for a months worth of baht bus and even more SEO work, which greatly improves our online presence. The donation tracker is here [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/donate/"]http://www.pattaya-a...m/forum/donate/[/url] and the thread is here [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/topic/100818-donations-received-thanks-guys/"]http://www.pattaya-a...ed-thanks-guys/[/url]
The domains aren't worth it financially for PA to come up with the money to buy, as they are hard to monetize, but I feel that many of them will become good traffic feeders for Pattaya-addicts.com and get us more worldwide mongers coming here. I recently was questioned about my [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/topic/76980-power-users-supporting-the-forum-buying-domains-to-increase-traffic/page__st__425#entry1644403"]goals and aims, I answered it here[/url].
[b]New Features[/b]
[b]Social Groups[/b] - This is a new app whereby you can create a private group between friends and share photos. This is for those that are hesitant about the advanced section. Its also a great place to have discussions and plan mongering outings with friends. The application can be accessed at the top of the forum. or here [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/groups/"]http://www.pattaya-a...m/forum/groups/[/url] The thread to ask questions about it is here. [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/topic/100994-new-forum-feature-social-groups/"]http://www.pattaya-a...-social-groups/[/url]
[b]Picture Section not shown in Thailand[/b] - This modification has been ordered.
[b]Activity Stream[/b] - You can now see what everyone is doing, this has replaced the redundant "content spy" and it actually shows more activity. [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/stream.html"]http://www.pattaya-a...rum/stream.html[/url] There is even a mini version on the forum index page on the right hand sidebar.
[b]Youtube Stream[/b] - As soon as anyone uploads a video to youtube with the tag "Pattaya" we get a new thread started with a thumbnail and link to it, there will be some bad quality ones included, but I have seen some cracking videos that I never would have seen and its more content to discuss for the members. It cost me nothing to do. Its up to the members to add a comment to the good ones, therefore naturally letting the old ones drop out of sight. [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/forum/243-youtube-videos/"]http://www.pattaya-a...youtube-videos/[/url]
[b]Latest Thailand News [/b]- We now have the latest Thailand news, this will be tweaked a little, but the idea is to save the guys going to other forums to see the serious news. [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/forum/237-thailand-news/"]http://www.pattaya-a...-thailand-news/[/url]
[b]Latest Pattaya News from two different agencies [/b]- We now have daily updates of the news from Pattaya One [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/forum/233-pattaya-one-news/"]http://www.pattaya-a...ttaya-one-news/[/url] and from Pattaya Daily News [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/forum/236-pattaya-daily-news/"]http://www.pattaya-a...aya-daily-news/[/url]
[b]Pattaya Pictures Gallery[/b] - don't forget that we have a [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/gallery/"]PA pictures gallery[/url].
[b]PA Blogs[/b] - We also have a personalised blogging site which is useful if you want to do a daily blog and promote it in your signature, there will be less discussion, which is advantageous for some. [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/blogs/"]http://www.pattaya-a...om/forum/blogs/[/url]
[b]Chat Room[/b] - Chat with other members in real time, useful for general chit chat and getting to know guys before your trip and keeping in touch with them after. [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/chat/"]http://www.pattaya-a...com/forum/chat/[/url]
[b]Events and Member Calender[/b] - Please add your trips and parties to our calender, this will generate new friends and get more people at your parties, good for the party and business owners. Keep our community strong! [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/calendar/"]http://www.pattaya-a...forum/calendar/[/url]
[b]Members Map[/b] - Find guys in your town by clicking on the markers, add your location to let other people find you! [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/membermap/"]http://www.pattaya-a...orum/membermap/[/url] Lots of addicts in your home town to meet with and keep the depression at bay!
[b]RSS Feed[/b] - If you would like to keep uptodate with certain sections, you can download a rss reader and add an xml feed from here [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/rss"]http://www.pattaya-a...s.com/forum/rss[/url]
[b]The Results[/b]
We have reached 70000+ members now, with an average of 70 new members per day, 1500 posts per day, 120 + threads per day, we are going to hit 6 million page views per month and in less than 50 days we will have more members than all the other pattaya based forums put together, Its work in progress and I still have my thinking cap on in terms of making the forum better for users. [b]The next project I am working on is to get more pictures on the forum.[/b]
[b]Please give all the features a chance and try them at least once.[/b]
[b]Written By LaaMok[/b]
We started Power Users over a year ago and our progress in increasing traffic through various methods have helped us increase traffic in various metrics. A years worth of progress can be seen throughout [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/topic/76980-power-users-supporting-the-forum-buying-domains-to-increase-traffic/"]this thread,[/url] the purpose of this thread was to prove that the donations are being spent and to educate and make members feel part of the community project.
Alot of forum owners do very little external work outside the forum and talk about lots of costs to keep the forums running, however my approach is to keep pushing the forum because I enjoy it and it benefits the users through more extensive info, faster replies, more discounts and trying to create a community in Pattaya, where guys can support each other.
We have now reached 4th place for "pattaya" on google.com, this is one of 40-50 rising keywords that can be seen on that thread. (only available to advanced users) The marketing approach basically started online and now I am looking at on the ground advertising, I have been speaking with business owners about co-branding and I have been putting stickers around. I had a meeting yesterday with a local nightclub to drum up some ideas of getting us more members from customers visiting their venue. (more info coming soon)
Baht bus advertising and flyers have been organised for awareness around town. The flyers wont be handed out on the street as that doesn't work, they will be handed to a captive farang audience at their homes through farang food deliveries.
[b]Lastest donation campaign[/b]
We started a quick donation campaign with a 2759 USD target to cover buying 1298 USD of domains, 10,000 baht for flyers, 10,000 baht for a months worth of baht bus and even more SEO work, which greatly improves our online presence. The donation tracker is here [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/donate/"]http://www.pattaya-a...m/forum/donate/[/url] and the thread is here [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/topic/100818-donations-received-thanks-guys/"]http://www.pattaya-a...ed-thanks-guys/[/url]
The domains aren't worth it financially for PA to come up with the money to buy, as they are hard to monetize, but I feel that many of them will become good traffic feeders for Pattaya-addicts.com and get us more worldwide mongers coming here. I recently was questioned about my [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/topic/76980-power-users-supporting-the-forum-buying-domains-to-increase-traffic/page__st__425#entry1644403"]goals and aims, I answered it here[/url].
[b]New Features[/b]
[b]Social Groups[/b] - This is a new app whereby you can create a private group between friends and share photos. This is for those that are hesitant about the advanced section. Its also a great place to have discussions and plan mongering outings with friends. The application can be accessed at the top of the forum. or here [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/groups/"]http://www.pattaya-a...m/forum/groups/[/url] The thread to ask questions about it is here. [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/topic/100994-new-forum-feature-social-groups/"]http://www.pattaya-a...-social-groups/[/url]
[b]Picture Section not shown in Thailand[/b] - This modification has been ordered.
[b]Activity Stream[/b] - You can now see what everyone is doing, this has replaced the redundant "content spy" and it actually shows more activity. [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/stream.html"]http://www.pattaya-a...rum/stream.html[/url] There is even a mini version on the forum index page on the right hand sidebar.
[b]Youtube Stream[/b] - As soon as anyone uploads a video to youtube with the tag "Pattaya" we get a new thread started with a thumbnail and link to it, there will be some bad quality ones included, but I have seen some cracking videos that I never would have seen and its more content to discuss for the members. It cost me nothing to do. Its up to the members to add a comment to the good ones, therefore naturally letting the old ones drop out of sight. [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/forum/243-youtube-videos/"]http://www.pattaya-a...youtube-videos/[/url]
[b]Latest Thailand News [/b]- We now have the latest Thailand news, this will be tweaked a little, but the idea is to save the guys going to other forums to see the serious news. [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/forum/237-thailand-news/"]http://www.pattaya-a...-thailand-news/[/url]
[b]Latest Pattaya News from two different agencies [/b]- We now have daily updates of the news from Pattaya One [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/forum/233-pattaya-one-news/"]http://www.pattaya-a...ttaya-one-news/[/url] and from Pattaya Daily News [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/forum/236-pattaya-daily-news/"]http://www.pattaya-a...aya-daily-news/[/url]
[b]Pattaya Pictures Gallery[/b] - don't forget that we have a [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/gallery/"]PA pictures gallery[/url].
[b]PA Blogs[/b] - We also have a personalised blogging site which is useful if you want to do a daily blog and promote it in your signature, there will be less discussion, which is advantageous for some. [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/blogs/"]http://www.pattaya-a...om/forum/blogs/[/url]
[b]Chat Room[/b] - Chat with other members in real time, useful for general chit chat and getting to know guys before your trip and keeping in touch with them after. [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/chat/"]http://www.pattaya-a...com/forum/chat/[/url]
[b]Events and Member Calender[/b] - Please add your trips and parties to our calender, this will generate new friends and get more people at your parties, good for the party and business owners. Keep our community strong! [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/calendar/"]http://www.pattaya-a...forum/calendar/[/url]
[b]Members Map[/b] - Find guys in your town by clicking on the markers, add your location to let other people find you! [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/membermap/"]http://www.pattaya-a...orum/membermap/[/url] Lots of addicts in your home town to meet with and keep the depression at bay!
[b]RSS Feed[/b] - If you would like to keep uptodate with certain sections, you can download a rss reader and add an xml feed from here [url="http://www.pattaya-addicts.com/forum/rss"]http://www.pattaya-a...s.com/forum/rss[/url]
[b]The Results[/b]
We have reached 70000+ members now, with an average of 70 new members per day, 1500 posts per day, 120 + threads per day, we are going to hit 6 million page views per month and in less than 50 days we will have more members than all the other pattaya based forums put together, Its work in progress and I still have my thinking cap on in terms of making the forum better for users. [b]The next project I am working on is to get more pictures on the forum.[/b]
[b]Please give all the features a chance and try them at least once.[/b]
[b]Written By LaaMok[/b]
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