[Zephyr]

Well, this idea has come up pretty continually. Where do we start? Going to forums online and posting doesn't work well. Not only is it considered "spam" due to advertising, but people are already comfortable on their current forums. Youtube can drag in a few members, but most of the time, people are looking for very board-specific topics. For example, a Pokemon player is looking for a Pokemon forum, or very active board such as pre-current Pojo. What do we have to offer? Where can we acquire new members?

People at school are interested in gaming, so I'll throw the link around at school a bit. It would help exceptionally if we had some VBA tips and downloads. Maybe a list of the top ten RPGs and some guides?

I'll throw a few links onto Youtube and see how it goes. I have a good 50+ subscribers, so it'll be seen if I post a new Pokemon battle. Anyone willing to kick it off and be my first narrated battle?

[Lollin]

Good topic, but before we start the die hard advertising please wait until the new domain is working - so we can easily link people to thegamingforum.org straight off.

The best form of advertising in my opinion is either befriending someone in a forum (start PMing them, hi how are you, nice post, etc) and a few PMs later say 'oh check out my site, just launched, etc' and give them the URL. This method will work 95% more than mass PMing spamming the site to those on the online users list. Don't go for users who have 1000+ posts, but for the ones with 100 or 200, etc. Secondly just PM your forum friends, they like & trust you, so they are bound to listen to you as well.

I have no experience on YouTube but the same as I said above may work.

As for what we offer, that is a really good question. I should be working on an answer to this if we are to succeed. I'd say a forum for mostly all gaming related topics, our reviews, cool rank system, nice layout (need more to add to this)...

I was thinking of add sub-forums to the 360, Wii, PS3 boards for their online features (Xbox Live, Wi-Fi Connection, PSN). In addition to this maybe an Ask The Forum or Support board?

[Reza]

Advertising is easy tbh.

[Lollin]

Well it's more of a case of finding the IP address by phishing, e.g. get your victim to visit one of your pages. Then you gather their details/IP address. With their IP address you can do a few things which may possibly harm their computer (e.g. perform an attack of some kind).

[Zephyr]

Hahah, avoiding that, it sounds like spreading the site slowly, and letting the new members drag people over from there. Does that sound about right?

We need something unique. Like a game night where we have multiple people use live streams and compete to finish a game first/best. (I got the idea because Abra's Asylum has live streaming for Pokemon battles. They'll do a marathon on the Xat box once ever few days. Mondays are also a movie night.) Being a gaming site that lacks spam and certain restrictions separates us from GameFAQs, but not by much.

[Kanvas]

How abouts creating Counter-Strike, TF2, L4D 2 servers named TheGamingForum.org and run scripts on each server so every now and then the console says "Checkout www.TheGamingForum.org and discuss your experiences amongst avid gamers like yourself, it only takes a min to register and become part of this thriving community", and you can sell admin slots to help fund the sites' further development?

[Annvin]

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广告是很容易tbh。
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嗯，我不同意你的看法。 我认为这是非常困难的！

[Lollin]

Annvin, on 27 July 2010 - 05:02 AM, said:

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广告是很容易tbh。
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嗯，我不同意你的看法。 我认为这是非常困难的！

这是如果你有钱...但我没有，所以这就是为什么很难：（

[ProjectTitan313]

Ok seriously, I can't read the last two posts. Its in Japanese

If you want a battle to narrate, I can give you one. Can't promise a fantastic party, as I have only trained 8 things in the last 6 months. Actually, 7, Ninetales is still being EV'd but shouldn't take too long.

I should be able to form a party though. Anytime is fine, and do I need to do anything specific for ya? I'll avoid stalling as best I can, it kills narration

As for the advertising, I got nothin. This is the only forum I frequent. YouTube ads put the name out there, but people generally don't stick around. I think we need to get some of the ol' guys back (Maul, Gangsterboi, all them guys) to spark some life around here then watch the flame spread.

Uniquity, I don't know. I mean, we have Me, and if I am not the greatest thing to grace this earth since Elvis I don't what is.

OH, I KNOW! We should make some shitty social networking site that people can use to lifelessly stalk everyone they've ever met in their entire life! We'll get millions of companies looking for free advertisement members and be on every business-related commercial in america

Just start small at YouTube ads and see what happens from there. Can't hurt right?

[Zephyr]

I may battle you, Titan. It's been a while. Who knows, I'm a lazy ass now that PokeSav has shit itself.

[Kanvas]

Bought a facebook ad for the site, hopefully it gets through to a few of the 50 million facebookers out there :')

[ProjectTitan313]

Kanvas for president/prime minister/czar/emperor/king/khan. So many titles for leaders these days. And zeph, I think I almost have a team.

[Kanvas]

Lmao, I'd prefer to remain a manslag thanks xD