Yeah, it's mostly just a waiting game until a big tournament, and trying like hell to keep those newbies interested. The idea of advertising has been thrown around before, but it probably wouldn't be very effective. 95% of us probably found this site through Google.
It comes in all forms; not just pertaining to soccer or the sports world. You have big forums and little forums. It's not a question of emulating their success or methods, as each group is unique. We just need to find what works for us. However, with expert not around a lot, the initiative to do such a thing coupled with the means to do it, is not very high.
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more members doesn't necessarily make a forum better though. the reason i like this site is because everyone has gotten to know everyone pretty well. also, new members get settled in well.
Yeah, I agree that things a bit slow nowadays. Unfortunately advertising is not really an option since the forums don't really earn anything. Even if they did, I'd probably give the profits back to the community like back in the day when we gave away books and stuff.
For now, I don't think there's not much we could do. It's nice to keep EF avaiable sort of like an online 'refuge' for young players. Who knows maybe things will pick up again in the future.
I agree its good having a small tight knit community where everyone knows everyone so its all good, this is a very friend ly community too which is a bonus for noobs.
Are experts videos on youtube?
If not that could be a starting point and it's free, would just take a little bit of time to set up. I wouldn't mind making an account on youtube and forwarding all the videos to people interested in football to generate traffic.
The thing with EF is I think we have a lot of useful information, and a lot of people drop in off a search engine with specific technical questions. Just because they aren't posting doesn't mean the site isn't getting hits.
We could make a promotional video and put it on youtube. Youtube really is the way to promote yourself whether its sports highlight videos, music, short movies, product reviews. Why not websites?
just put somebody with big boobs in that video, and you'll have 100 new members by next week fact-!
no but seriously, this topic rises up every 6 months, users come and go, maybe we could all make a little effort in giving them reasons for wanting to stay
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There is always an increase during the major tournaments. I saw a lot of old members come back during the World Cup to talk about the games. However, that was short lived.
I think in terms of the old members a lot of them are not playing soccer anymore or trying to make it pro. I think playing soccer is the main reason we all found this site. I think a lot of the older members have moved on so there really wasn't a need for them or incentive to keep posting after the World Cup. They came to talk about the game maybe because they had no where else to discuss it and left once the tournament was over.
