Is this board growing too slowly?

[Sarah]

Hi Bubbles,

I just posted two Missions Statement examples for members to vote on in the ScubaMagazine site news forum.

For those unaware, I wrote both while staying up WAY too late.

[Daddy-h2O]

I read, I voted , I rant on!!!

[santelmo]

growing a bit slow but im ok w/ it...

ive voted already...

[santelmo]

maybe we could have smaller banners for us to post on our personal website (ex. multiply, myspace, friendster) like an advertising kit for scubamagazine.net?

[Daddy-h2O]

^ see that's what I am talking about^^^^

[86diver]

I just found this site by accident last week just wondering around on the net. If I can make a suggestion, I would do more advertising, get more people involved, REALLY COOL SITE!!!

[Sarah]

We are now doing advertising, and we are starting to have sites add links.

We are going to work on banners if the publisher does his Indonesia trip in August. We've picked up about 25 members in just the last 4 days.

Compared to other sites that have started several months before us we have more than a hundred more members.

We're doing quite well considering how hard it is to start any scuba forum, but we won't rest till we have complete and total world domination.

[Daddy-h2O]

We are now doing advertising, and we are starting to have sites add links.

We are going to work on banners if the publisher does his Indonesia trip in Augsut. We've picked up about 25 members in just the last 4 days.

Compared to other sites that have started several months before us we have more than a hundred more members.

We're doing quite well considering how hard it is to start any scuba forum, but we won't rest till we have complete and total world domination.

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!

[kirwoodd]

I agree with the OP,
my issue is similar. I am a new diver (27 dives) and as a n00b I think that I can learn from the more experienced. So I keep coming here hoping to pick out perls of wisdom.
I guess that its just a matter of critical mass and this board just isnt there yet. It certainly cant be easy for the site admins as there are other boards that are in direct competition with this one and they are going strong. The ONE thing that does suprise me is how closely this boards layout resembles one of their competitors. I am CTO for a software company during the day and I try to avoid copy cat user interfaces, its better to be new and exciting. I feel like if you too closely resemble the competition users will say "why switch, I already have THAT over here and more users/data as well."

as for advertising, good call, IIRC I found this site via google adsense.