Monetizing/making 2+2 better

[El Diablo]

sam,

I think this merits a "Construct 2+2 Real World House" thread in OOT.

[MyTurn2Raise]

a 2p2 real world house would be cool around WSOP time.

I'm sure many are renting in Vegas for the period anyway. Get them together and see how it goes. Daily reports are expected

[Kneel B4 Zod]

these are great ideas, but I think 2+2 is better served by trying to figure out how to decrease critical mass in it's most popular forums and create other forums devoid of critical mass.

[4thstreetpete]

El Diablo these are excellent ideas and a great thread. I love every single one of them. I think it's really about time that 2+2 implement some of these ideas. A lot of other forums are moving forward and being a lot more innovative. It's time for the best community on the internet to move up.

[adsman]

Great ideas here. I think that a real strength that 2+2 has as a business is the loyalty of their customer base. Here you have customers that are taking an active interest in the improval of a business that is not their own. I hope that the 2+2 team realises what a valuable assest this is to have.

[BradleyT]

How many people on here would subscribe to "The 2+2 E-mail Newsletter"? Lots and lots and lots more. And that's forcefed money making. I don't even have to do anything except open an e-mail THAT I WANT TO RECEIVE, THAT I CAN'T WAIT TO RECEIVE. I can be working in Dreamweaver on a website and see an outlook popup that the new 2+2 Newsletter has came in and I'd stop what I was doing to read it.

Edit - and the reason that i want to recieve it and can't wait to receive it was mentioned by the poster above me. The 2+2 brand.

[El Diablo]

Mat and mods,

How many of the ideas in this thread have been previously suggested/discussed in the mod forum?

I'm frankly a little surprised at the lack of mod participation in this thread. Seems like a lot of mods get up in arms and spend tons of energy over stuff like whether or not to split off a 2+2 Comic Book forum, yet imo they would be much more helpful to 2+2 focusing on real traffic and revenue-enhancing ideas like many in this thread.

[diebitter]

I'm interested in the blogging idea, but haven't had time to figure out how it could be done to make it interesting enough. If everyone did it for example, 99.99% wouldn't even be read by anyone. I guess if it were you El D. or one of the ladies or real ballas, then yeah, it would be cool and widely read.

I'll think on it more.

[BradleyT]

Also I think they need to impliment a community portal content management solution.

There's guys in the money making forum who can't even spell HTML that have better designed sites than 2+2 because of the capabilities of CMS today.

[El Diablo]

db,

You're not even thinking of the right things. I don't want to attack you, but as I've said before, most of your suggestions in these matters (forum splits, etc) show a complete lack of awareness about how to build community and revenue in an online media property. 2+2 offering blog-hosting, for example, would be primarily as a community-building and stickiness thing, not a page view driver (though that would be a secondary effect to some degree). I think the best thing you could possibly do if you really wanted to help is step back for a while and just listen to what people with experience and understanding in these matters have to say, then once some good plans have been put in place, volunteer yourself to help support them.