Replies to post #26267 on The Question and Answer Board (IHUB)

[Churak]

who woulda thunk it? A blondie that has a good idea. OK fess up...where did you read that? Wait...I know... Alpha Trade!!1 LOL.

Nevertheless, that is a very good idea. I would put mmmary in charge of the membership drive.

[Mattu]

This is actually one of the things Bob and I talked about this weekend. I like your idea. The first MDC was largely successful, in my book, except for the mass amount of shirts Bob ordered. hehe

I'm getting more and more inquiries about the site from a "Hey, we've got a group, what can you do for us" perspective and a lot of folks from there are checking us out, so it must be getting bad.

The whole problem with RB is, quite frankly, I don't want *all* their users. I just want to cherrypick the good ones and when RB folds, they all the idiots (Churak's friends) go to Yahoo.

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

Probably wouldn't be a bad idea to have a "Blue Light Special" and lower the membership fees for a month or so.......or give anyone who joins a "free" premium month.

IMO, if someone won't pony up $8.95 to try out the advanced features for a month, they won't pony up $4.95 or even $1.00.

I'm going to have a look this week, though, and see if I can easily implement a couple of weeks worth of Happy Hour while still displaying ads. Ad revenue is finally at a level that I don't want to completely close that spigot for any length of time.

[Mattu]

Susie: Update

In regards to this post, our new members/day is up 4-fold this week so far. Nearly all are coming from RB, so the word is certainly out that we are "the place" to go upon the death of RB.

I'm getting a lot more e-mails asking questions about moving groups over, so things are looking good.

MB