New Forum launched
This morning WickedFire.com went online.
Why should you care? Run by Jon of Super Affiliate Marketing Blog they are doing a few things that the other forums have avoided, including allowing graphical sigs and affiliate links. Right now its a Saturday morning and there are already 35 members and over 150 posts within 6 hours of launch.
Jon is also running providing some very big incentives to bring in new members and posts. If you are one of the first 10 people to 250 posts or can refer 30 new users you’ll get a free site created by his team. If you are going to refer people through your site or blog be sure to tell them your username so they can enter it when they sign up (mine’s Andrew.)
Will WickedFire be able to compete with the big three — Sitepoint, DigitalPoint, and WebmasterWorld, in addition to the SEO boards? I’m leaning towards a yes.
Update: It appears that WickedFire.com is ending day 1 at just under 2,000 posts and 100 members. This is a perfect example of how to launch a new forum.
Getting people to post by bribing them will only take a forum so far. At first sight, I don’t see this one competing with the likes of Sitepoint, Digitalpoint, and WMW. Those three are far more than just forums, looks like WickedFire.com isn’t.
Comment by Peter — June 25, 2006 @ 10:02 pm
Did you listen to Shoemoney’s interview with Lee two weeks ago? They discussed at length using incentives to push community growth. Listen to what they say, the two of them have made millions of dollars from forums. In pure dollars they top out most owners of other huge forums on the web.
Comment by Andrew — June 25, 2006 @ 11:18 pm
Peter, the forums two days old. It’d probably be smart to wait a bit before making any predictions, positive or negative.
Comment by JD — June 26, 2006 @ 3:59 am