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Knocking out the competition
11-07-2007, 10:04 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 1,354 Location: Spring, Texas  | Knocking out the competition Do you guys have any competition with your communities? Does someone run a similar community to yours? Well, have you guys ever thought about merging with your competitor - or just buying them out? I don't like to buy out my competition, but if I see that they have our ideas and such, then I'll buy them out and merge - also; bringing along their staff members to. So, if you have any competitors; what are your plans to knock them out and take all of their traffic?   | ||||
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11-07-2007, 10:24 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,357 Location: United Kingdom  
| My competitors have alot more money than i do, and a bigger memberbase, this is the big ones, but i've recently merged with a small graphics site and become one, so we will probably keep doing this for a while to get a community going.
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11-07-2007, 11:37 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 1,354 Location: Spring, Texas | Well, how do you know they have a lot more money than you do? | ||||
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11-08-2007, 01:13 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 1,280 Location: Gainesville, FL  Recent Blog: UFC 91 PPV Buys 
| That's not necessarily true Flash. I would say my sports site looks like we have a lot more money than more active sites because of how it's set up. | ||||
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11-08-2007, 04:45 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 10,246 Location: Athens, GA  | I say if you can afford it, then yes, you should buy out your competitors. We've done this twice here at AF. Not only does it make your forums larger, but it also decreases the competition - two birds with one stone! Any merger or acquisition needs to be well thought out though, there are so many things to consider and so many things that could go wrong. You need to decide what stays and what goes. Who stays on staff, who goes? Can you even perform the merge? How do the members feel about it?
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11-09-2007, 12:20 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,321 Location: Delaware Recent Blog: French say they need biggest condoms | i only have one competitor, it's massive compared to me. they would never sell since they are a million dollar news outlet. fortunately for me they have a popular forum with lots of activity that is extremely lightly moderated so i can spam it all i want...lol everyday i post there i take usually 2 of their good posters......its coming along nicely. | ||||
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11-09-2007, 12:22 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 1,280 Location: Gainesville, FL Recent Blog: UFC 91 PPV Buys
| I plan on trying to buy out some of the smaller competitors. I would never be able to buy out rivals.com (I don't think) but there are fan sites that have thousands of members that I may try to buy out. | ||||
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11-23-2007, 10:06 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 144 Location: Southern California
| Our members and my competitors' members absolutely hate the crap out of eachother. I don't think they'd be very happy if we merged.  | ||||
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