First off, sorry for the lack of updates. Last weekend was my birthday so I was pretty busy celebrating. Thanks to everyone that wished me a Happy B-Day!
As mentioned a few posts ago, I purchased Fuzion Poker on PAW. The last few days I have been working hard on trying to build up the forum and have really realized that trying to get a forum going is a lot of work! The forum had around 3000 members when I received it, but most of them are from a while ago, so I am trying to get them to come back and post. My main goal with the site is to build it up into a fun little community where we have a bunch of special events for all of the members. I don’t really expect it to make any money for a while, but if it does sooner then that is great too.
My plans so far are to offer a bunch of prizes and rewards to the posters on the site to get some of them back posting again. Some things I am doing to do this, is by making a minimum number of posts so that members can see all the special site promotions. I will run a few freerolls (any affiliate managers looking to help out, let me know), then eventually try to get a league going. There are a few good members there already that are posting quite a bit, so IMO it is off to a decent start.
Unfortunately this means that I have spent countless hours working all week (18 hour days) and am currently averaging only 4 hours of sleep per night. I knew it wasn’t going to be easy, but I like the challenge. If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them!
I am also going to have to put a little work into the SEO for the site to try and get it ranking a lot better. I will keep you posted on how things are working out with the forum and think this will be a great case study.
Hey Graham, I think your going to do great on the forum….I am a member of alot of forums but only one kept me posting for almost 2 years (daily)and contributing to not only the forum but the leage. I will shoot you a PM later with a couple ideas to what kept me on that site. I have so much respect for people who can keep them running, it is alot of work.
Thats a bum deal man. I hope they have some sort of fraud department. However, its online gambling so you might have a better shot getting a refund on some bad crack you bought on the streets on Toronto. I’m not saying anything (kyle healey)
Contact me I might be able to help you out. I own several forums and am always looking for sites I can partner up with. My main site is http://www.freerolltourny.com