All of us would want our boards to be big. A few of us made it while the rest of us don't. How would you measure the success of your site? After that, what's next? Make it bigger or just lose that zest to make it even bigger? Will the success makes you lose touch with other webmasters in sites like these since some of us think that site like this are for newbies and failures.

I've always been fond of webmaster sites. It just like a gathering for professionals to touch base on what's the latest scoop in the community and as for success, I would measure my site as a success as long as people enjoys my site and new posts everyday.

I'd view my site as a success when it pretty much runs itself, there's no more features I could add, and the members are happy.

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I agree with Danny. When I'm not having to helpfully prod members along once a month and there's nothing left that I can do, then it would be a success. Till then, I'll continue plodding along.

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Each to their own really yeah!! I suppose it depends on what your site/forum objectives are and if you have a strategic development plan for your site.

I do have objectives, targets and a strategic development plan for several of my main sites, and with this in mind I measure 'success' in terms of several factors;

• New members
  • Actual member count
  • Rate of growth
• Thread/Post cctivity
  • actual number of posts
  • rate of posts
• Revenue generated
• Delivered pages / page impressions (counts non-registered member use)

I also look at which pages/threads have been replied to and viewed the most. This gives me an idea as to what my members actually lilke viewing and doing on the site. I also try to keep on my toes and introduce several new features throughout each year.

In business it's called a USP - Unique Selling Proposition - and if you are serious about your site and very much want it to succeed, there's every reason to have one and no reason not to...!!!

Differentiate between you and your competition... why should people come to your site first, more, for longer etc... make it unique. Make it have that WOW factor...

Good luck...

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I never have any problems with members posting, as my forum is more a casual community than a thriving website, I never push anyone to post, they just do it because they like coming online every once in awhile and expressing themselves, which is fien with me.

That's a great action plan you have there John. Perhaps you can translate that into an article for this site.

Aren't there any success story to share from the rest? C'mon now, don't be shy....

Sure, I can write something for BB... I'd be happy to. I just need to find a few extra hours in the day somewhere... hehehehe

I'm sure I'll do something for BB soon.

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I always managed my site on how well its doing by

1) Ammount of members on that day
2) Ammount of new threads/replys in a day

The hardest part is keeping it that way too.

numbers to me are everything. the higher the better and i take that as a success.

OK, each to their own, but doesn't quality mean anything to you too?? Surely you want quality posts... no??

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