The Chalk Bucket is a gymnastics community powered by vBulletin. It started out as a natural extension of my gymnastics pro shop, Leotard Crazy. I just thought I would stick a message board on the site and people would start talking…I was wrong.
12 months and little to no activity.
I was under the impression that there are magical people on the internet that would come to the my forums and load them with high quality content. I built it…they did not come. I forgot about the whole project, just gave up on it. Shortly after 12 months with little activity I logged in and noticed that I did have one or two members that were very interested. At that point I new I could make it work, but I also knew it would take some work.
How did I get more members?
The Chalk Bucket is now about 18 months old and going strong. We are gaining great new members everyday. The posts are interesting and right on target with the subject matter. How did I get new members? I became one….I started taking a real interest in it. It has gone from something that I started to earn a living to something that (even though is earning very little right now) has great potential, something that I really care about.
Great story…how does that help me?
Ha…I love to talk. The Chalk Bucket is based on vBulletin. I have many hacks installed that are very important. I also have very specific SEO and advertising strategies that have been working with great success. Now we have the intro out of the way, we’ll start off with the basics tomorrow. If you have a forum (or want to start one) you’re going to find out how.
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