Market Gems, as a business, will probably come back because TheStreet.com has partnered with Silicon Investor. TheStreet.com uses MetaMarkets which has Busiest Boards area.
thestreet.com
link to The Street.com article
Money and Pageviews Shape Message-Board Rules
By James J. Cramer
Originally posted at 4:01 PM ET 9/21/00 on RealMoney.com
And don't I know it. At one point I suggested that TheStreet.com allow anonymous posters because I thought it would help pageviews. I was wrong. The editors were right; they didn't want to turn a pristine, albeit profitless, pool into a lucrative cesspool. Since then, TheStreet.com has decided to partner with Silicon Investor, one of the big message-board providers. Silicon Investor requires users to buy a premium membership in order to post messages on its boards; this results in much stricter rules and fewer anonymous attacks -- and I am grateful that we partnered with them. They do care.
thestreet.com
3/12/01 1:46 PM ET link on TheStreet.com site.
showing Silicon Investor and the busiest threads of the day. I believe it is changed around noon every day
Silicon Investor
Intraday Updates
Clown-Free Zone
Tim Luke Banned for Life -- let's talk about it
Tim Luke Petition to Unsuspend Him.
Market Gems -- Banned by Jenna
find.thestreet.com
Busiest Boards history of busiest boards go back to 10/29/99 07:21 PM ET as of this moment
As long as the business,which has a thread and posts here on Silicon Investor, such as Market Gems or any other business that has a thread, has the business name in the header(and that is probably why SI had that business name removed from the name of the thread when critics started one), why would they NOT want to post here . It is called business and getting on that list for the day.(free advertisment which will direct people to the business). The secret is really not a secret. Just make a lot of posts, even if you, the business owner, make all the posts, it will still show up there at TheStreet.com.
So if you are wondering why just one person, an owner of their business, posts a lot of posts on their thread, with little response from members, which makes it appear that they are even posting to themselves, wonder no more.
Business people have to sometimes work 15 hours to 20 hours a day unless they have a lot of members who post or can hire someone to make posts also to keep the post count up there to stay on that list daily.
iHub will be smart to use this and are probably checking into this right now.
This is my opinion and observations of someone being smart in marketing and perhaps will be helpful to some of you out there with your business plan. I know I have learned a lot about marketing on the internet from my observations. |
