Advertising Coral Swap....ground rules?

Subject: Advertising Coral Swap....ground rules? Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:41 am

Recent discussions regarding the advertising of CS on other forums has been raised. I do think that we can offer some ground rules to promoting CS I have also been guilty of posting threads on other forums so this is just a short guide or suggestions really of how to advertise the forum. I know it is exciting to have a small forum which offers good priced frags and an avenue to swap frags - I hope I havent offended anyone - Captain Nemo has done a great job getting more people to the site and I am certain that this forum will grow.....

Other forums
It may be an idea to pm or email admins on other forums to see whether they would want to support coral swap in some way. Search on a forum for threads which have free frags within them or coral swap within them - make sure that you arent duplicating - perhaps a friendly bump (post supporting the thread) boosts the position of the posting to the top of the list.

Individual members - an effective advert for coral swap is a link to this site through your signature on other forums. I have put CS on my signature and have made it clear that it is an external site.

Websites
It would be good to have banners and links from individual websites, blogs and other sites such as myspace, bebo and facebook.

Ebay - Not sure whether we can place links on items for sale but if people can send out links to this site that would be cool

Aquatic Classifieds Links to this site may help to bring new people to the site.

Business cards
I am planning to produce some business cards which can be sent out to people when I swap frags etc within the packaging and given to people during any club meets, raids and road trips - I will also be sending out coral cradles, heat packs ect to people on here.

Posters Perhaps we can look at logos and produce a small poster for placing in supportive LFS and other businesses......

Clubs
If you are a member of a reef keeping club perhaps encourage members to look at coral swap through articles in newsletters (email and paper) and from banners on websites -

Always discuss where you have managed to place adverts and links with Josh and the mod team

J

Subject: Re: Advertising Coral Swap....ground rules? Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:58 am

Great Ideas j. Looked into ebay they say you cannont place links to other website(although there are loads) but you place the address on the pic.
I place an ad on Aquatic Classifieds every time i pop on a few frags
http://www.aquarist-classifieds.co.uk/php/detail102_103539.php
and up date every day for a few days so its near the top.
I dont use the other forums because i was online with a well know forum and read/saw what happened with josh.

Subject: Re: Advertising Coral Swap....ground rules? Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:13 pm

I am curious about this

pm me the forum pls

J

Subject: Re: Advertising Coral Swap....ground rules? Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:27 am

Some great ground rules NMK! I did get permision once from someone on MFUK to use his pictures for a coral for this site!! I never got round to this and im unsure if i can still use hes pictures!! I'll get in touch with him and see what he says!!

I also know a few places to get some good business cards so i'll look into that also!!

Thanks NMK!!

Joined : 31 Jul 2007 Posts : 155 Location : Norwich

Great post Cranners and the 'rules' are ones which we will need to follow if we are to hold any respect with the forums.
Please can we request that no more new threads are started on the forums. If you do use other forums just add a small signature thread to your profile so it shows each time you post. If you are unsure how to do this just drop Josh, Cranners or NMK a message.

Subject: Re: Advertising Coral Swap....ground rules? Wed Aug 06, 2008 11:39 am

yea who started all this anyway??

sorry

thought it was common sense if you read a post somwhere not to go and copy that post on the same site lol.