Drumming Up More Members For Ab

[naomi24]

Has admin considered advertising and letting the world know we’re here?

[emmie]

i fell on AB by accident back in 2011, and it seems that's the way most people find it. Advertising it would be a step forward. We need more people, new blood

[1ozzy]

Every time a new member posts something they get ridiculed by the self confessed stalwarts of Answerbank.
Go think??

[naomi24]

1ozzy, I don’t think that’s true. I’ve seen a couple of ‘incidents’ but we were all new once - and we’re still here.

[Spicerack]

Personally, I like the 'intimacy' of AB.
Does anyone know, is the membership in decline, steep decline or is it just 'bumping along' at much the same level as it always has.
There are plenty of impersonal Q&A sites about.
By reaching for the stars we may end up in the gutter.

[bobbinwales]

keto/cbd spammers dont seem to have trouble finding it... maybe Ab is advertising but in wrong places??

[roadman]

this is very ironic

[naomi24]

^In a way … but it’s an idea.

[youngmafbog]

Advertising costs money though. But then you have to speculate to accumulate.

As Bobb points out we get bombarded with Keto ads so how do they find it?

Not sure really what the answer is.

[douglas9401]

Embrace the gummies?

[Deskdiary]

I stumbled upon AB in about 2004 (under a different guise) when I was trying to find the name of a song in an advert, Googled it, and AB sprang up.

I've never seen AB referenced in any media, so I would imagine the vast majority of people stumble across it.

[douglas9401]

Aye, and the lucky ones don't fall and break a hip.

[Zacs-Master]

How would you advertise it; as something which provides answers to questions (ooops...Google has that covered) or as a chat site?

Difficult one, huh?

[LadyCG]

Perhaps caution should be exercised before opening the floodgates.

[naomi24]

Both, zacs, and not difficult. The site’s blurb on the homepage page says it all.

LCG, what do you mean?

[Sqad]

Zacs @15.52 as put his finger right on the problem.

Do you want an AB or a CB......you can't have both and survive? Ten years or more ago it was an AB but over the years CB has strangled the life out of AB.

Deterioration is in fukk swing.

It should be a CB with no holed barred and the only function of the Mod should be.....sifting out the adverts.

[naomi24]

Oops …. That’ll be just one page. ;o)

[Zacs-Master]

Go on then, N. An Answerbank Ad pops up as I'm, say, looking for the cheapest toilet roll.....what does it say to pique your interest?

[naomi24]

See my post at 15.57, zacs.

[Zacs-Master]

You couldn't fit all that on plus it wouldn't grab peoples attention. It needs to be a snappy strapline.

[barry1010]

Sqad, have you got a yearning for the wild west days of AB, missing the 'what's a crackalacking' posts where insults were hurled with abandon and at least one regular was hounded in real life as a result?