How do you make a community feel like home to your audience?

[Heatman]

It's only when your community feels like it's a home that you're going to have loyal members. This is because today in the forum field, loyalty is fleeting and if don't do everything possible to keep yours, it's going fly away before you know it.

How do you keep your members being loyal to your brand?

 

[Shawn Gossman]

You're definitely right.

You have to make to turn your forum into a tribe or a family if you want to create loyalty. You have to befriend and get to know your members. You have to care about your members and your members care about you.

I think many forum owners get stuck on just wanting to be the biggest forum and they let opportunities of building a loyal audience with what they got get away from them.

It's probably what causes most forums to fail.

 

[Heatman]

I feel so bad whenever I come across two forum owners trying to compete with each based on the one that's going to become bigger without knowing they're simply running themselves down instead of growing.

Recently, SWC and VSP owners had such mindset as they kept going at each other. Where are they today? Gone and forgotten because SWC couldn't keep up with the competition and VSP also fell apart as it kept using AI chat bots to reply and boost contents which no one likes.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I feel so bad whenever I come across two forum owners trying to compete with each based on the one that's going to become bigger without knowing they're simply running themselves down instead of growing.

Recently, SWC and VSP owners had such mindset as they kept going at each other. Where are they today? Gone and forgotten because SWC couldn't keep up with the competition and VSP also fell apart as it kept using AI chat bots to reply and boost contents which no one likes.

Aggressive competition is a red flag for me, indicating that I should avoid a forum.

 

[Heatman]

Aggressive competition is a red flag for me, indicating that I should avoid a forum.

It's a very big red flag and a ticking time bomb that's going to eventually blow up in their faces sooner than later.

SWC owner at the time had to start doing all sorts of shady deals to get more people posting on his forum just to keep up post count competition with VSP. In the end, he couldn't pay up all those whom he hired, banned them on the forum for calling him out to pay. It was crazy couple of months with what went down between the two forum owners.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

It's a very big red flag and a ticking time bomb that's going to eventually blow up in their faces sooner than later.

SWC owner at the time had to start doing all sorts of shady deals to get more people posting on his forum just to keep up post count competition with VSP. In the end, he couldn't pay up all those whom he hired, banned them on the forum for calling him out to pay. It was crazy couple of months with what went down between the two forum owners.

Well, if it's the original owner of it, he's banned from here to for threatening me via-PM.