Jeff Fuqua
Well-known member
After having the site up for a couple of months, traffic has been scarce and participation non-existent. I've promoted it via the city's Facebook page, did a little Facebook advertising and reached out to local merchants to list their business. I'm not seeing the results I expected and, before investing more money into it's promotion, wanted to address a couple of concerns:
1. Is a message board something people are interested in for a city? The Facebook page has 2.5k likes so I'd assumed that means people are very interested.
2. Is the format of the message board easy enough for people to learn or does it seem to be overwhelming when compared to Facebook? I've included tutorials but, I assume, someone would really want to take part in order to read/learn if they didn't already know message boards.
I'm too close to the site to be as objective as I need to be. If anyone wants to take the time to give it a look, I'd appreciate their thoughts. Thanks.
http://www.talkfranklin.com.
1. Is a message board something people are interested in for a city? The Facebook page has 2.5k likes so I'd assumed that means people are very interested.
2. Is the format of the message board easy enough for people to learn or does it seem to be overwhelming when compared to Facebook? I've included tutorials but, I assume, someone would really want to take part in order to read/learn if they didn't already know message boards.
I'm too close to the site to be as objective as I need to be. If anyone wants to take the time to give it a look, I'd appreciate their thoughts. Thanks.
http://www.talkfranklin.com.