07-08-2018 , 05:07 PM
Thanks for taking my suggestions and criticism like a sport.
For social media I haven't figured out a solution yet. Maybe try to give some incentives like... For every 3 successful referrals the participants will get an extra entry in the giveaway. (referred people should have a post count of 10 before the end of the giveaway). Keep trying different things. Someday something will click and when that does, stick to it. Right now the social shares aren't helping the forum. (I've tried with 7-10 successful referrals on the other forum but that didn't work. I think 7 was a bit more. Try with 3.)
For giveaway, merge all the threads and ask everyone to suggest giveaways that they'd like to see. After sometime, go through all the posts and see what software/services got the most requests. And try to get those. Or you can ask the community if they'd like to see a giveaway of the products that you have in mind.
For rules, 10 posts is definitely fine. But rules like 10 threads are discouraging. 10 threads for an old user might not seem much but for a new user who's still trying to figure out the forum, is very tough.
Winners: that's a rumour that I've heard. If it's false (which I don't doubt) then it'll fade away eventually.
The rumor about the late announcement of the winners must've spun from the fact that earlier you guys didn't put a notice that the giveaway is extended. A simple post is enough to rectify that.
Extra license: you can always keep those licenses for future giveaways but remember that the devs do check the activation status of the giveaway licenses. And not every winner activates their licenses. So for example, out of 20 winners, 3 failed to claim the license and 10 of the winners kept their licenses for future activation. What the dev will see it as... Out of the 20 licenses that we gave for the giveaway, only 7 licenses were used.
This isn't so good.
You might think that I'm exaggerating about the number of people not activating their licenses, but I'm not. I usually keep in touch with the devs even after the giveaways, reporting them about bugs or give them suggestions about what I'd like to see in their product. And during those talks I sometime ask them about the giveaway, and how many activations were made till then. And so I know that activation rates are more or less like 50-50.
By dev, I meant smaller devs. Like people who can create small but fun scripts, independent developer of smaller projects. Or guess what.... People who can create Adguard filters. It's not that hard and it'd be such a fun and interesting project. Some people will report ads and others can create filters, etc. This is just an example.
And finally, thank you for the offer but unfortunately I won't be able to join the team. I'm actually finding it hard to make time even for the other forum. However, I'll try to make a few tutorials for p2d. I can't give you a time frame. But once I complete it I'll post it here on p2d.
For social media I haven't figured out a solution yet. Maybe try to give some incentives like... For every 3 successful referrals the participants will get an extra entry in the giveaway. (referred people should have a post count of 10 before the end of the giveaway). Keep trying different things. Someday something will click and when that does, stick to it. Right now the social shares aren't helping the forum. (I've tried with 7-10 successful referrals on the other forum but that didn't work. I think 7 was a bit more. Try with 3.)
For giveaway, merge all the threads and ask everyone to suggest giveaways that they'd like to see. After sometime, go through all the posts and see what software/services got the most requests. And try to get those. Or you can ask the community if they'd like to see a giveaway of the products that you have in mind.
For rules, 10 posts is definitely fine. But rules like 10 threads are discouraging. 10 threads for an old user might not seem much but for a new user who's still trying to figure out the forum, is very tough.
Winners: that's a rumour that I've heard. If it's false (which I don't doubt) then it'll fade away eventually.
The rumor about the late announcement of the winners must've spun from the fact that earlier you guys didn't put a notice that the giveaway is extended. A simple post is enough to rectify that.
Extra license: you can always keep those licenses for future giveaways but remember that the devs do check the activation status of the giveaway licenses. And not every winner activates their licenses. So for example, out of 20 winners, 3 failed to claim the license and 10 of the winners kept their licenses for future activation. What the dev will see it as... Out of the 20 licenses that we gave for the giveaway, only 7 licenses were used.
This isn't so good.
You might think that I'm exaggerating about the number of people not activating their licenses, but I'm not. I usually keep in touch with the devs even after the giveaways, reporting them about bugs or give them suggestions about what I'd like to see in their product. And during those talks I sometime ask them about the giveaway, and how many activations were made till then. And so I know that activation rates are more or less like 50-50.
By dev, I meant smaller devs. Like people who can create small but fun scripts, independent developer of smaller projects. Or guess what.... People who can create Adguard filters. It's not that hard and it'd be such a fun and interesting project. Some people will report ads and others can create filters, etc. This is just an example.
And finally, thank you for the offer but unfortunately I won't be able to join the team. I'm actually finding it hard to make time even for the other forum. However, I'll try to make a few tutorials for p2d. I can't give you a time frame. But once I complete it I'll post it here on p2d.