Category: nologam

  • I love my community!

    Would you believe it, but Nologam is nearly a year old already. It has grown up so fast, that I have actually lost track of what’s happening and that is…sorta bad.

    In all my time of running a community site like Gamers and Geeks, I have never had this much activity. In nearly 12 months, we have got about 80+ members…not one of them are spam bots…they are genuine people who have signed up to a community and made it what it is today.

    In May, I took on a couple of people who were willing to help me with the running of the site, generate some ideas on how to improve the site and even gain new members. It has been the best decision that I have made and it was worth it. They have put in a lot of effort with the site and I greatly appreciate it. It’s so great to have someone, at least one person, to help with something as big as a community.

    Now, I am meeting new people everyday and they are willing to help me with improvements, from a server refresh to re-branding Nologam just makes me want to cry in happiness.

    I had lost track of what happened with my community when I left for London last Monday when I didn’t have access to a computer for most of the week and then getting sick when I came back, but the community still went on without me and it felt awesome that I didn’t have to be there to keep the site going.

    Back when I was trying to get Gamers and Geeks off the ground…I would spend hours on end trying to get genuine members on the site, but it never worked…with Nologam, it has.

    So, here is a tip from me in order to get a community going: Get a friend, get talking and make awesome. A community is not just about YOU. It’s about everyone around you also.

    Join the community at http://nologam.com – Follow Nologam on Twitter: @Nologam
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  • “What does it take to get recognised around here?”

    That is something I have just asked people on Twitter. And it’s related to nologam.

    Ever since I launched nologam back in January, just like Gamers and Geeks, it has become a failure…with just over 10 members registered and 2 active members, it seems like a lost cause already.

    And this got me thinking, “How can you make something that is already big and over-saturated, known”…As in “How can nologam become part of the “big communities list” along with sites such as Boards and Facepunch.

    Granted, there is 2 pretty huge sites and at the rate that members are singing up, we are never in this lifetime ever going to hit that member numbers that those have.

    And what I have found out is, you and your site has to be…unique. You have to stand out from the crowd and do something different in order to get recognised. Look at Facebook, Look at Twitter, Look at boards and look at Facepunch.

    They have all done something unique to become where they are today. And that is the dream that I have with nologam. I want to become as big as Boards and Facepunch. And I know that is never going to happen.

    I have tried for 5 years to get Gamers and Geeks up off the ground and nothing. We haven’t got anywhere.

    I don’t know what I am doing wrong, I don’t know if there is something which I am missing that is making me fail.

    What I do know is, that if I keep posting on nologam on my own, every forum category and thread will have my name in it and that will look bad to every guest that would come onto the forum.

    So, what action do I take? Do I start placing ads everywhere or do I have to spam inboxes…At the moment, while I don’t like either…It’s something that I might have to consider.

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