How to Kickstart and run Communities

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daddygotech
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How to Kickstart and run Communities

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How to Kickstart and run Communities

First of all, let's start with the main priority, explanation and description. Or in another words, I meant that let's start off with your goal. We're talking about kick-starting and running communities out of ideas or interest.

Without a goal or an idea, nothing is gonna work;
Yes, indeed. If your without any goal or idea in your assets, your not gonna have anything started and working. So, draw up a plan or think of a goal you've in mind. You see all those famous people out there? They got an idea in mind at first, and a big goal setted in target with vivid memory. Therefore, they got famous and rich.(- It would be either that or getting things done) Then get things started with Hosting first.

Hosting is cheap, uptime is valuable;

Even if you've got hosting, it's not of any use to you except for running the software and storing information for you. Uptime is of utmost importance compared to huge bandwidth and space in an Instant-Activation hosting. Once your hosting is down, you will either lose out or gain from it. (-It all depends on your smartness)

Software is the second ultimate decision;

Without a software, nothing's gonna get running. You'll have to either source for commercial or open source products or get one customly made for you: That's what Youtube did. If your going for E-commerce, get an Open Source product, it suits you if your on a low budget. If your going for a community for discussion, get PHPBB or MYBB, they're open source products and are pretty reliable and good. Look at the costs of commercial products, then compare them with all the other Open Source products you could think off. The features are in comparison.

SEO is your next, Marketing is your Sidekick;

When your site gets running, you need to work on both SEO and Marketing to get traffic and revenue to lower the costs of both servers and management, or whatever that triggers similiarly as an liability. Without any SEO, your gonna get pretty low traffic and eventually, a new idea that is similiar to yours, comes and take you on, making you lose out. Marketing is your sidekick when you've low traffic and activity. Give promotions with careful considerations. (-Always think of the overall)


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You have been credited 20 points for sharing the tricks.
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