How to make paid community memberships work
Rosemary O'Neill
Community ManagementCrowdstack
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Suggestions❤️We are trying to bring a bit more organization to our various model train forums. We are experiencing a lot of threads started in the wrong forums. One of our members made a good suggestion I want to run by you. Currently the RECENT POSTS widget displays the thread title and the timestamp of the latest post to the thread. It does not display the specific forum where the thread is posted. Can that be added to the listings? It could look like this: The red text is the name of the forum where...
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Blog Post Comment❤️I'm so glad to hear that Chrissanne! I also learn something new every time I look at one of our customer communities. Jane's a great role model in more ways than one. Maybe we can do a Lakeland profile next
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Topic Reply🔥Hi, DBenoit. Thanks for giving us some more information about you and your goals in your profile . From your profile What's your community's big goal? The goal of this community is to foster the exchange of experiences, issues, information, and inspiration toward overcoming personal health challenges in the hunting and fishing communities. Have you found any places (physical or virtual) where like-minded people congregate? I'm picking up on Rosemary's thoughts about brick and mortar...
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Blog Post Comment200 members is great but how many are free and how many are paying? What business model was used as far as pricing was concerned? The standard $25 a year? Or a larger monthly fee etc? I never watched the video, so sorry if it is mentioned there - 3am here I am too tired.
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Topic ReplyI take this to mean that this eliminates the extremely useful near real time email notifications in the new model? Why can't the models co-exist and let the user choose what is right for them instead of such a heavy handed "we know better" approach?
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Topic Reply❤️That was a long message, so I want to make sure I understood the bottom line. With the new model all members will be put by default into weekly digest mode, that is, they will get an email once a week summarizing all the posts that were made in the past week. As the administrator I would like to get an email each time a post is made. Will I still be able to change my settings to make that happen? Mark
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Topic ReplyHi @ANON_BM - you are welcome to stay on the current model. We can't have the two systems co-exist because a major part of the change is simplification of the notification settings for members. There would be no simplification at all if they were to co-exist... in fact, it would be more complex. @Mark Neal - Yes, you will be able to subscribe to ALL posts across the entire Crowdstack site. That will be a new option... the key point being that you cannot slice and dice that by content type.
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Topic ReplyHow can I, as a member, select to remain on the current model? I don't see that as being touted as a possibility.
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Topic Reply@ANON_BM - there is no member preference. The site owner/admins determine which notification model to use and it applies for all members of their Crowdstack site. As I mentioned to Mark above, the new model does support subscribing for notifications about all new posts on the site.
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Topic ReplyANON_BM, you have perfectly described our situation with your truck site analogy. We run a site about model trains. Here is a small portion of the menu structure from that site: Train Forums Traditional 3-Rail O Gauge 2-Rail Scale Forum 3-Rail Scale Forum Tinplate Trains O Scale Narrow Gauge Forum S-Scale Trains Subways/Transit/Traction Real Trains Layout Building Forums Track Plans and Layout Design Electrical Forum Scenery and Structures etc. Someone who is into Traditional 3-Rail O Gauge...
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Crowdstack Discussion🎉❤️🏆📈We run a Crowdstack Site focused on Model Trains. We also publish a magazine called O Gauge Railroading . The magazine published its first issue in June of 1969, almost 52 years ago. We have been here since the "Eve" days, and may be Crowdstack's oldest customer. On January 3, 2013, one of our members started a thread entitled "What did you do on your layout today?" Yesterday, that thread reach a very unique milestone. 1,000 pages and 39,990 replies! I think that might be a record.
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Crowdstack Discussion👏The "What Did You Do On You Layout Today" thread in our Crowdstack O Gauge Model Trains forum reached a huge milestone today when Publisher and CEO Alan Arnold made the 50,000 post to this thread! The thread was started on January 3, 2013 by forum member Alex Malliae. Here we are, over 11 years later, and the thread is still going strong. Amazing!