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Welcoming new users into a paid online community when a free trial is offered
What are some innovate ways to help welcome and integrate new users in a paid community where a free trial is offered?
Let me provide my specific example, current solutions, and potential issues.
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Need help to understand the pros and cons between open source vs closed source license for webapp?
I'd like to ask you for the help/advise to come out of the problem that came out recently in our group.
We're working for 3-4 months on the web application similar to http://instagram.com/ or ...
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Would you put an open discussion forum on the products website?
We have a website, which is the entry point to install our software product. The software is targeted to wide range of individuals.
My question is - should we put a forum on our website and allow ...
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Is moving an established, central online community to 100% distributed a bad idea?
I run a community for pug owners. It's been around for nearly 7 years and it's a "popular" site within the pug community.
It's a completely custom site (I built the whole thing from scratch...didn't ...
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Promoting sub-communities of a social website?
I'm currently working on a social website that bases itself on specific sub-communities (something along the lines of Reddit meets Pintrest for lack of a better description). What are some effective ...
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How do Sites like Elance or Odesk Attract Freelancers?
I have a site that works like Elance and Odesk in a way.and I am looking for a strategy or at least an Idea of how I can go about attracting freelancers to join my site.
Any help will be highly ...
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Marketing for the initial community of a community-based startup
My team is soon to release a new website. Essentially, the site is a collaborative game that relies on the community to be sustained.
What are some techniques/ideas for gathering the initial ...
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Im having the chicken and egg problem; What's the risk of focusing on one group first to attract the second group?
My website is a hiring marketplace focusing on events sector (ex. if venue looking for a dj. The venue will post the job and djs submit proposals).
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FLOSS licensing: should I force copyleft notice in footer?
I'm developing a fairly large web-application with a public-facing JSON REST API, mobile apps for every platform (using AngularJS with Apache Cordova) and specialised e-commerce configurable by users.
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New business jargon you coined? [closed]
What business terms have you coined that have taken off in your own circles (i.e. have heard others repeat it)? It might be within your own company, team, from client, provider or garnered greater ...
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Profiting from a community-based website WITHOUT advertisments
What are some ways of profiting from a user-driven community-based website? The client base is for programmers, and it promotes getting individuals to come together, work, and showcase their final ...
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Compensation for employee participation on internal community site
I run a site which relies on an internal social network for communication between teachers and students. Most updates to the news feed (think Facebook status update) are students posting their updates ...
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How to gain members, contributers, and a community
In the next year or so I am opening up a website that targets coders and designers. Some features will be a blog (or blogs), categories to submit stuff and also a forum to help build a community.
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Tips and best practices for building a great forum community
We're building an online community which will have a very active forum with large user base. Please share your experiences and tips on building a large forum community.
What're the initial actions ...
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How do I judge if my online community is growing fast enough?
My partner and I started our own Q&A community for filmmakers. I realize this kind of community is not gigantic but there are a lot of sites out there servicing the needs of this type of ...
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Incentives for users in a community?
I'd like to brainstorm with some others on what you think are options for "incentivising" users to use a site in a community. eg. things like user retention, and increasing the odds that people are ...
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importance of a community?
I recently launched a web site but I have a dilemma between
building a community
completing business model
at the moment the site just MVP so it has some attractive features but doesn't have ...
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What are some concrete actions one can take to expand an initial community? [closed]
Once a few serious users have been established for a community-based website intended for programmers, what are some concrete steps that you have personally taken to expand it? For example...
Should ...
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How does a a online community gain initial users prior to launch?
Web startups with the theme of a "community" as in let's say a Match.com, a roommate finding service or even this site for that matter....my question is how do they gain their initial users? I am ...
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What to do with a semi successful side-project?
Beside my two startups I invest 99% of my time in, I have several side projects I started just for fun. Trying out new programming languages, those kind of things.
One of these side projects is a ...
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Dating website/community with forced Invites
i am running a dating website for 3 months now, have about 5000 unique visitors and 115k page views. My website was featured in a nationwide newspaper, really big though, and it is responsible for the ...
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Closest deployable software to current stackexchange software?
Are there anyone using stackexchange like Q&A for their product? How great has it been in building a community of helpers and engaging the user in how to use your software? I plan on making a ...
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Can Twitter really help to get users to a community site, and why?
Can Twitter really help to get users to a community site, and why?
I have read recommendations to use Twitter to market a community site, but I really don't understand how or why it can bring more ...
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Is there any websites/community of software early adopters to publish betas?
I'm wondering if there exist any community driven site, to join two kind of people...
Developers creating new software products (web, desktop, mobile) to be reviewed, but not as a paid tesing ...
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Should I use my competitor's videos on my website before scaling?
a bit of background before my question:
I've built a video sharing website that is specific to extreme sports, where users currently embed videos from third-party websites like Vimeo or Youtube. ...
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Best way to build community for this online debate site?
I am in the process of reaching out to various groups on linkedin/digg/reddit/twitter to find participants.
Anybody have input on my idea, or advice on the best way to organically grow this ...
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Recruiting Unpaid Content Writers
My marketing team and I are working with a new local online newspaper to build a SEO campaign as well as a recruiting campaign to bring in writers. We are pretty well versed on SEO, but I was ...
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Starting an Incubator, in a stagnant area?
For a couple of months now, myself and a couple of contacts of mine have been pondering ways to develop an incubator to bridge the entrepreneurial resources of NYC (Silicon Alley) with Long Island ...
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Commerical Open Source and Community Open Source
I am thinking on working on an ERP system that I can sell or support on it. Currently, I have OpenERP and Tryton in my mind. Based on the comparison done on Wikipedia and other website, I was noticed ...
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How do you get initial exposure for a community-based crowd sourcing website?
For the past year I've been working on a recipe-sharing startup called Fridge to Food based on the idea of crowd sourcing recipes. We went to public beta a few months ago and I've been doing rounds ...
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How do I choose the right sub-segment to market my new Q&A community to?
I'm launching a new Q&A community and was wondering how specific a market I should target while seeding and promoting the site in its early stages.
If the ultimate goal is for it to become the ...
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What are some good ways to bring in people to create an online “community”?
I know this has little to do with software start up companies. But throughout school and research I've concluded most startups have to go through the same things. I'm working on an event group that ...
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How to find people interested to participate in a brand-new open-source project?
I recently set up an open-source infrastructure for Obix.
Obix is a new, object-oriented programming language designed to help people writing more reliable code in less time. More information can be ...
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What's the best launching strategy when building a (social) community?
I'm contemplating a couple of options: A) Create a lot of buzz, just before the opening B) Create quite a bit of buzz about the beta phase and have interested people sign up/test C) Just let the ...
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Does my CMS choice limit the scalability or types of services I can integrate?
My start up business will be a social service that also hooks to a mobile application. I want my users to be able to interact with my service over their phones or on their PCs. Naturally I'm thinking ...
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How does one go about starting a community/forum?
Active forums and communities take on a life of there own. My question is how to get started. A forum with tumbleweeds rolling through it will never get anywhere. There is some kind of minimum viable ...
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How can I kickstart a community?
I have the idea to open a user targeted community. This is based on an unusual business case where the software developped is actually also / mainly used in house (and planned to be turned into a ...
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In a community based startup, what is a good community growth velocity? What is a worrying one?
I know this depends on the community in question, how actively I am marketing it, how well search engines have indexed it and so forth. But I was wondering if there are some good guidelines in terms ...
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Effective ways to build a community on your site
I'm trying to find out about startups who were successful in building a community around their product/market. I believe that you don't just build a product these days but you also need to build a ...
