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Plan for Jim Rowley

Name:	Jim Rowley
Date Posted:	May 30, 2004
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Website moving forward.

My new website www.funcited.com is finally coming together and starting to move forward. I've designed the site as a news and links portal using PHP-Nuke and I'm very happy with my progress thus far. I am currently receiving an average of about 25 unique visits daily, but few are actually registering at this point. This will certainly change as I begin to create more incentive for the free registration. I am researching the best ways to actually get rank on search engines and I'm finding the competition is steep! I believe the best way might be to manually go out and discuss the site with other like minds to set up link exchanges since Google and other engines use external links to sites as a big factor in ranking. Please come take a look and leave me some feedback. I believe I've ironed out most of the glitches now and content is starting to build. Thanks for all of GarageGames fans support, you guys are great! By the way, you can also get a sneak peak at my first title under development using Torque on the site. I have remained fairly quiet about this project on this site until some of the copyright and other legalities are fully settled. Come on fellow Indies, let's take the gaming industry by storm!

On a seperate note... I have thus far been quite unhappy with the Bush administration and John Kerry is not my choice for a great president in the future either. I think I'll write in Jeff Tunnell for pres :)

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Jay Moore (May 31, 2004 at 16:52 GMT)

Interesting site. A couple thoughts from a marketing perspective. Content is still king. Positioning comes before packaging and promotion (your tag line is catchy, but still doesn't tell me anything about the site),

Answer questions like:
Who is your audience?
Who is going to maintain all the categories of stuff you've listed and where will the content come from?
Why would people come and what would bring them back?
Why are you different that any fan site or game review site?
What are you building a community around (advanced gamer site / developer)?
What is your voice? Why would someone care and get involved in this site?
Are you creating the site you've always wished you could find? If so... how many of YOU are there in the world. Why is the world a better place for having this site? Another generic gamer or game developer site doesn't really move the needle ... what will?

Answer the hard 'so what' quesions right and you'll build a portal... maybe.

When you have an about statement you passionately believe in and its unlike any other site and people connect and 'resonate' with it you'll start to get members. Then you'll be able to consider getting linked.

Jim Rowley (May 31, 2004 at 19:10 GMT)

Thanks Jay, its so nice to get some REAL feedback, especially from the marketing guy since that has not been one of my strongest assets. My mind does tend to wander, but I HAVE been attempting to design the site that I would like to see and use. The questions you pose are very valuable and each will be considered as I continue to progress. Its quite apparent that you really know your stuff! Ok, time to start narrowing my focus a bit and carving out my own little niche :)

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