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Shawn Gossman

Shawn Gossman

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I'm in a fairly saturated forum niche - admin forums.

There are still quite a few admin forums out there, many mixed in with promotion forums.

I try to be different in the content I post. I try to post important topics that resonate with forum owners. I also try to post articles on a regular basis. Maybe in time, as the forum grows, I'll add more benefits to make this place unique. I'm definitely open to your suggestions as well.

But with that being said, let's turn the mic over to you!

If you've entered a forum niche that is saturated or highly competitive, how are you remaining different? How are you preventing your forum from just being another needle in the haystack?
 
Shawn Gossman said:
I'm in a fairly saturated forum niche - admin forums.
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Me too!

It is a horrible, terrible, strategic mistake LOL. I cannot emphasize enough how bad and irrational of a decision it is. It's a shrinking niche in a shrinking industry with a shrinking audience. From a strategy perspective, it's literally one of the worst target niches you can pursue 🙃
 
I have an admin forum also. Biggest mistake I ever made was getting in that niche.

I bought Admin Addict when it was at its peak competing well with TAZ. At the time TAZ and AA were the de facto forums for forum admins. I expanded AA by acquiring Admin Talk. During that time Lisa an admin at TAZ started Admin Extra. It took more traffic from TAZ. AA was not affected. Lisa and I had a good relationship so our 2 communities promoted each other.

The problem with AA and TAZ at the time was the bickering and sniping by the different software fanboys. TAZ was started as a vbulletin fan site. I suggested, when I was admin there, that the site expand it's focus. Howard agreed. Problem was it already was a place for vbulletin admins. When guys from IPB or other software came along they were beat down until they left. I resigned as admin and bought AA to be a more friendly place. It was for a time. Then xenforo v vbulletin started. AA was flooded with anti vbulletin pro xenforo stuff. That's when I sold it. I was lucky I sold it when it was still popular and at the top of the admin forum food chain. Now it's a ghost town. It resides at Admin Talk Forums.

Anyway I'm rambling. I still love forums and always will.
 
AWS said:
I have an admin forum also. Biggest mistake I ever made was getting in that niche.

I bought Admin Addict when it was at its peak competing well with TAZ. At the time TAZ and AA were the de facto forums for forum admins. I expanded AA by acquiring Admin Talk. During that time Lisa an admin at TAZ started Admin Extra. It took more traffic from TAZ. AA was not affected. Lisa and I had a good relationship so our 2 communities promoted each other.

The problem with AA and TAZ at the time was the bickering and sniping by the different software fanboys. TAZ was started as a vbulletin fan site. I suggested, when I was admin there, that the site expand it's focus. Howard agreed. Problem was it already was a place for vbulletin admins. When guys from IPB or other software came along they were beat down until they left. I resigned as admin and bought AA to be a more friendly place. It was for a time. Then xenforo v vbulletin started. AA was flooded with anti vbulletin pro xenforo stuff. That's when I sold it. I was lucky I sold it when it was still popular and at the top of the admin forum food chain. Now it's a ghost town. It resides at Admin Talk Forums.

Anyway I'm rambling. I still love forums and always will.
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Your story brings back a lot of memories, haha. I remember AA, and AE all too well. I loved them all but I also remember the bickering and the aggressive competition by TAZ. TAZ would block the domain of all of them. I actually registered "anotheradminforum.com" because that was a domain replacement that was often used. I remember someone telling me I was smart for that LOL

I remember when TAZ was or bought out Forum Forum. That's even more old school LOL
 
Forum Forum was the first and original admin forum. It was never bought by anyone. I inquired about it when it first went dark. They had a catastrophic database crash and lost everything. The owner wanted an outrageous amount of money for the domain. He did say if any of the data could be recovered he would include it.

The owner held on to the domain for along time. Same message when you visited it.
 
JoelR said:
What happened?? AT is a total ghost town now
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The group that bought it just left it stagnate. It remained active even with no staff being involved. Then it died and now only gets spam. I tried to get myself removed as admin and the super admin never replies to my requests.
 
AWS said:
Forum Forum was the first and original admin forum. It was never bought by anyone. I inquired about it when it first went dark. They had a catastrophic database crash and lost everything. The owner wanted an outrageous amount of money for the domain. He did say if any of the data could be recovered he would include it.

The owner held on to the domain for along time. Same message when you visited it.
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Now I remember something like that.

I was just a lurker back then. I was still very fresh at forums.
 
AWS said:
Forum Forum was the first and original admin forum. It was never bought by anyone. I inquired about it when it first went dark. They had a catastrophic database crash and lost everything. The owner wanted an outrageous amount of money for the domain. He did say if any of the data could be recovered he would include it.

The owner held on to the domain for along time. Same message when you visited it.
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I tried to Google it, and found ForumsForums! It's like what Reddit would be if it were forums 😆.

What a shame on AT. Literal ghost town. Pretty sure one of ifs most recent posts are my promo posts about Admin Junkies.
 
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