Does your community have any competitors?

Discussion in 'Managing Your Online Community' started by cpvr, May 4, 2011.

  1. Carlos

    Carlos Regular Member

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    I'm going to leave it alone and let some other person get pissed off by this guy's attitude. His e-mails to me were condescending enough... I mean, if you talk to a corporation with that "I will sell my site to a real corporation." comment, you end up losing that person. I was ready to pay the guy 3,000 all I have to do is ask for a loan. That's it. I have a business plan ready and is already in the hands of an accountant. All I need is to hear her comments and then I'm going to a loan officer or investor.

    The guy thinks I can't get investors. I already did 2 years ago, all it would take is a simple phone call and I'm in business.
     
  2. tronik

    tronik Regular Member

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    We got a few competitors in our niche, one of them has over 4 million posts. It's going to be extremely hard to becoming the #1 forum in my niche, but I am confident that I can accomplish this over time because I have a plan to achieve this goal.
     
  3. DarkGizmo

    DarkGizmo Mr. Awesome

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    Wow only 28k and open since 09? That's pretty sad, my site has 32k and counting and we've been open since 2010....we just turned a year old this past october...to answer your question, yes my site has plenty of competitors but my site is more active then both of these competitors, combined. :P
     
  4. MustangV10

    MustangV10 Regular Member

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    Yes, it does. Not directly AFAIK, but some forums have topics related.
     
  5. cpvr

    cpvr Regular Member

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    Gotta love that. You must promote your forum so much! I bet those competitors are always left wondering how your community is so successful.
     
  6. cpvr

    cpvr Regular Member

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    Yup, and contests usually help that activity, but I agree, all forums on the net could use more activity. I wonder how many people are using twitter/facebook to help get more posts on threads and such.
     

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