the forum.."underused"

Clan Chieftain · Post by **Clan Chieftain** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:40 pm

8) i feel the forum is underused. there are a regular 35 who are on the forum constantly and 60 odd all in.its great for a whole range of topics from the technical aspect to the ridiculous(which i am guilty of ) and this is good. but could there be many more out there who could use it and contribute more to the general discussion and maybe throw fresh ideas around. there are only 3 from up here use the forum on a regular basis. or is it like membership in general there are a hard core who are interested and the rest tag along.

~Sam~ · Post by **~Sam~** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:54 pm

hmm it's a tough one, forums tend to have the "die hard" members and then a high turnover of people who probably were after a specific thing and came on just for that, got the answer and left. If they are not a fan of inane mindless banter then they probably don't have many reasons to stay

I can't really see a way of getting a significantly higher percentage of members on here, and then retaining them.

Clan Chieftain · Post by **Clan Chieftain** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 6:25 pm

8)i got it wrong paul, there are 4 regular contributors to the forum up here. it isnt a lot really and as you say not everyone is on the net.

Uncle Frank · Post by **Uncle Frank** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:04 pm

That`s a tough one Larry, i think people tend to use the forum as and when it suits them, usually when they are bored or are looking for something in particular, you will always get the die hards, who will always participate in everything as you do with the clubs, as far as i can see that is probably how it will always be, you can lead a horse to water..........

martinmarina · Post by **martinmarina** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:15 pm

EL Presidente IOW wrote:That`s a tough one Larry, i think people tend to use the forum as and when it suits them, usually when they are bored or are looking for something in particular, you will always get the die hards, who will always participate in everything as you do with the clubs, as far as i can see that is probably how it will always be, you can lead a horse to water..........

Aye and you can get it to drink if you use a couple of Bricks

Post by **MarinaCoupe** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:10 pm

For my four penneth - let's say that there are 600 owners of cars on the road (it's a guess) if we have 60 contributors, that means we have 10% online and interested in Marinas.

I think that that's probably all that we can expect. It's a smallish pond.

Chris

marinast · Post by **marinast** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:22 pm

I like this forum, it's about right. Yes there are not vast numbers of people coming on here and posting topics, but the previous post is right, there are not many cars left, those which are are owned by people with more than one, so I'd say out of 600 cars, there are perhaps only 400 owners....

Mind you I think Ben used to have around 1/10th of the entire Marina breed in his garage at one point.

marinastevie · Post by **marinastevie** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:18 pm

Well does anybody have any good ideas to promote the MARINA/ITAL so we can get more members interested.The more we use the cars the more interest we get for them

Clan Chieftain · Post by **Clan Chieftain** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:42 pm

8) hence the cowley plan....up until then i dont know. mind you look at the turnout of marinas at our events this year. we certainly made the public and other clubs aware of our existence. as for the forum 10 % isnt too bad i suppose.

dandaz · Post by **dandaz** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:10 pm

You have to look at popular cars like mini`s and vw campers on their forums they have stats like these....

Threads: 109,363, Posts: 1,167,546, Members: 29,600
Welcome to our newest member, dandaz

We are not worthy...

8)

~Sam~ · Post by **~Sam~** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:37 pm

Yeah we don;t have 900 cars on the roads let along 29,000!!

If we had let all the spambots stay we would ave had over 600 members