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| Discussion on Romance.ucam.org
| Topic: "Recruitment and new members" |
| Date: 11th February 2011 |
| Introduction: RUO has been around for over 10 years now. In that time, we've had lots of successes (about 17000 members, 5 million messages, and 7 weddings!) , but we are now in need of new ideas. At peak, we
had 1500 members at a given time, but fewer now. Surely people aren't enjoying being single any more than they used to?
In particular, how are we going to get more people to sign up, and what are you going to do to help. The site remains free, and we have £1000+ available for promotion and publicity if someone will help spend it.
Cupid can't do this all himself any more, and Facebook ads don't work (enough views aren't available for sale at any price). I think it's down to word of mouth, but we need you, the members to help. Any ideas? |
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| Have you ever tried printing flyers to stick in everyone’s pigeonholes? I’d happily distribute them in my college, and I’m sure there would be volunteers from members in other colleges. It would at least let people know the site exists. I’d been here two years and a term before I ever heard of it, and that was just through a speculative internet search – if I’d seen something about it sooner I’d probably have joined a long time ago! | | [ Reply ] |
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| Whatever you do, focus on the women... men will follow. | | [ Reply ] |
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I agree.
The policy is simple:
1) get more girls on the site
forget Fakebook and other e-based media and go hard-copy: pigeonhole EVERY single female student in the University. Impossible? No! It does not have to happen in one day; as an example, over 5 weeks, a single promotion person can cover every College in the University at the rate of one a day, with days to spare. No need to rely in finding 'agents' anywhere
2) Disallow automatically the registration of more males when the ratio F:M goes above 1:1.7 . You may think that this will shoot down your chances of expansion, but believe me it will work, it is basic social dynamics... | | [ Reply ] |
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