If you owned Pixel2life, where would you advertise it?
#21
Posted 11 August 2006 - 06:14 AM
#22
Posted 13 August 2006 - 03:41 AM
Adding a proper download manager, Art Gallery, Resource Center and maybe even Blogs to Pixel2Life to increase member participation and the word will spread P2L has it all (btw IPB has all of these components and they are a simple install that fits into the sites look no skinning nothing) I use them at 13 if you want to test them out.
Personally, I feel that even with just the Toplist there's too much weight placed on IPB around Pixel2life. Now you have TWO coders, and 1-2 others that are working on smaller 'google ad' sites I feel that you could code any of these features yourself - and to use IPB mods would simply put more focus away from the main site and onto the forums.
#23
Posted 13 August 2006 - 08:38 AM
Adding a proper download manager, Art Gallery, Resource Center and maybe even Blogs to Pixel2Life to increase member participation and the word will spread P2L has it all (btw IPB has all of these components and they are a simple install that fits into the sites look no skinning nothing) I use them at 13 if you want to test them out.
Personally, I feel that even with just the Toplist there's too much weight placed on IPB around Pixel2life. Now you have TWO coders, and 1-2 others that are working on smaller 'google ad' sites I feel that you could code any of these features yourself - and to use IPB mods would simply put more focus away from the main site and onto the forums.
Could you imagine if Pixel2Life had their own coded Forum - can see now all the comments that would turn up in the most strangest places saying the coding is bad.
#24
Posted 13 August 2006 - 09:22 AM
Adding a proper download manager, Art Gallery, Resource Center and maybe even Blogs to Pixel2Life to increase member participation and the word will spread P2L has it all (btw IPB has all of these components and they are a simple install that fits into the sites look no skinning nothing) I use them at 13 if you want to test them out.
Personally, I feel that even with just the Toplist there's too much weight placed on IPB around Pixel2life. Now you have TWO coders, and 1-2 others that are working on smaller 'google ad' sites I feel that you could code any of these features yourself - and to use IPB mods would simply put more focus away from the main site and onto the forums.
Could you imagine if Pixel2Life had their own coded Forum - can see now all the comments that would turn up in the most strangest places saying the coding is bad.
My issue would simply be, why re-invent the wheel? The IPB systems works great, why change it? I think we could put the efforts of the programmers to better used, especially with their very limited time now that they are back in school or just about to be. I don't think there's anything wrong with a heavy focus on the forums, I'm all for developing a larger and more active community, but there's always over 10 times more guests that members on the site at any given moment, and you can bet they are using the tutorial areas, not the forums. In fact, the forums aren't even in the top viewed areas of the webstats stats yet.
Anyhow, I am looking for ad specific solutions right now, not what to add or remove to the site to generate traffic... that's an entirely different discussion. Jay - if you read this, what was that high end tutorial site/blog you showed me once where they are ubber specific about who advertises with them? I can remember the link.
Dan
#25
Posted 13 August 2006 - 09:57 AM
Edited by Jay, 13 August 2006 - 09:57 AM.
#26
Posted 13 August 2006 - 11:05 AM
I think I may have phrased it wrong or you guys may have read it wrong... I meant code the additions yourself into the site - and not use IPB mods. Thus bringing more value to the site itself (which as you said, is mostly used so will have the new features used more).
Ah ok, that makes sense... yeah that's what will probably happen anyhow because the IPB mods usually have some kind of limitation or it's just not quite right or something along those lines... the topsites thing is a great example... Neil ended up re-writing the entire security backend to it for us because the old security was... well... non existent lol! And that was just a small app. It's probably safe to say the bigger and more significant the mod, the more things that won't be quite right it'll have and require customization and coding added to it.
The other factor is I don't want to rely too much on IPB for stuff outside the forums because their large updates tend to cluster fuk the entire system. So the more I put on the IPB system, the more stuff I risk breaking when a major update is released.
So yeah, I see exactly what you mean and I agree.
Dan
#27
Posted 13 August 2006 - 01:34 PM
The other factor is I don't want to rely too much on IPB for stuff outside the forums because their large updates tend to cluster fuk the entire system. So the more I put on the IPB system, the more stuff I risk breaking when a major update is released.
Exactly
#28
Posted 13 August 2006 - 02:18 PM
I think I may have phrased it wrong or you guys may have read it wrong... I meant code the additions yourself into the site - and not use IPB mods. Thus bringing more value to the site itself (which as you said, is mostly used so will have the new features used more).
Ah ok, that makes sense... yeah that's what will probably happen anyhow because the IPB mods usually have some kind of limitation or it's just not quite right or something along those lines... the topsites thing is a great example... Neil ended up re-writing the entire security backend to it for us because the old security was... well... non existent lol! And that was just a small app. It's probably safe to say the bigger and more significant the mod, the more things that won't be quite right it'll have and require customization and coding added to it.
The other factor is I don't want to rely too much on IPB for stuff outside the forums because their large updates tend to cluster fuk the entire system. So the more I put on the IPB system, the more stuff I risk breaking when a major update is released.
So yeah, I see exactly what you mean and I agree.
Dan
Toplists/Topsites is not coded nor supported by IPB that's a 3rd party mod and well you take the highest risk installing any non supported 3rd party mods.
Mods are also a little outdated it's all components now and a 100% easier to install and maintain.
But anyways back to the original topic before you have a attack.
#29
Posted 14 August 2006 - 06:29 PM
#30
Posted 15 August 2006 - 12:05 PM
The other factor is I don't want to rely too much on IPB for stuff outside the forums because their large updates tend to cluster fuk the entire system. So the more I put on the IPB system, the more stuff I risk breaking when a major update is released.
Exactly
Not exactly true. If you do the upgrades by hand it'll work and if your too lazy to do that then you just need to redo the edits for the mod in the files that were updated.
Anyway, If I owned P2L I would print out like 5000 flyers and put on it "Free Hammertime! Use this coupon at any P2L store or at www.pixel2life.com and get your FREE hammertime!"
#31
Posted 15 August 2006 - 12:11 PM
#32
Posted 16 August 2006 - 12:29 AM
SitePoint it only costs $1000 a month I think. Although you can get traffic through PR and IBL so the more people you get linking to you the better.
#33
Posted 04 September 2006 - 11:14 PM
#34
Posted 05 September 2006 - 01:36 PM
Viral marketting: Viral marketting is something which alot of people would feel compelled to share (e.g funny videos & pictures).
Really if your considering heavy duty advertising you need to do alot of research. Find out where potential users hang about, their age, their gender and their education.
Also might be a nice idea to ask the community how they found the website to see what your current best marketting approach is (if you havn't already).
BTW: Do some more search engine optimization or something, if you search "photoshop tutorials" on google pixel2life.com is on the 5th page! (I would have thought it would have come up first as I consider it bigger than both good-tutorials and absolute cross).
Hope all is well,
- Adam
Edited by GCORE, 05 September 2006 - 01:40 PM.
#35
Posted 03 October 2006 - 09:40 AM
#36
Posted 04 October 2006 - 01:40 AM
SPAM, always the way to go is SPAM. Well if you want to lose people..
Spam is a BADBADBAD idea. Greycobra recently had a spam issue, lost quite a few members as a result.
I don't think it would really be a stretch to get P2L advertised on Adobe.com, you host Adobe Photoshop tutorials which may attract even more people to use the software if not only to create what your hosted tutorials have shown they can do.
#37
Posted 05 October 2006 - 05:00 AM
#38
Posted 05 October 2006 - 04:26 PM
#39
Posted 06 October 2006 - 11:40 AM
#40
Posted 07 October 2006 - 06:58 AM
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