5,000 members as of today ! :wave:
Sweet! This is a great place for use turkey crazies! :funnyturkey:
been on alot of forums truly is the best ive been on great people
Thats awesome. :happy0064:
Congrats to Old Gobbler.
:z-winnersmiley:
good place for addicts. must be an epidemic. :icon_thumright:
Now if we could get the suckers to post we'd really be on a roll. Maybe increase the Bingo prizes to guns and cars would do it.
We are all..........afflicted
Gman
Good news!
Quote from: Jay on March 06, 2013, 06:09:22 AM
Now if we could get the suckers to post we'd really be on a roll. Maybe increase the Bingo prizes to guns and cars would do it.
We happen to enjoy very high(est) rates of participation and interaction here depending on the time of year, that will dictate how involved our registered membership will interact with the site - I just did a quick look and members , and members that are about a week or so old have a %40-%50 participation , that number may even go higher after time passes, and members decide to post or ask something -we are doing well ... for example on many forums the going rate is about only %10 of the members ever post just once - I have the site set up to be friendly and informative -the place just runs it self these days and there are rarely any issues - people really enjoy interacting ,reading the site - I do ! Back to the guests or low post members - I cant tell you ho many times a 1 post or 2 post member contacted me or got a account to the OG site just to ask me about getting a call from me - all the callmakers here have told me this for years , guys we have never heard from register a account then want to buy calls etc.. lots of them --
Reader members - these are members that log onto the site and read it each day like you or I would read the paper , they tend not to say anything , but do greatly enjoy reading all the information posted , there are thousands upon thousands of these members , or in this case (non-members) out there - they just like to read - some are online all day , some check in for 10 minutes per day , some check in once every couple of days - some are more seasonal - these tend to be the {guests} we see online all day and night long - for forum boards ,although they don't post or contribute these are some of your very best members , they never cause trouble !!! forum statistics lead me to believe there are many ( undisclosed )times as many guests that visit the site briefly or extended daily as there are members - I remember when I started the forum 4-5 years ago , before the site had grown to the level it has today -we passed along some of the Google information to some important folks and they were about floored at the traffic coming in and out of the site - I was too !
Member numbers and posts are not a indication of how well a site is doing - for example we had a 100 post count rule to play in the turkey contest some years back - what we ended up with was relentless post padding in the birthday and welcome sections , people would go in there and pad up a average of 500 posts per day -thankfully, we did away with that . I have seen sites that had thousands of members but after close examination , there were about dozen members that accounted for 90% of all the posts ever - that gets boring --- so the membership numbers were not a real indication of the health of the site - Not that it is bad or good I have seen forums where a large majority of the posts have nothing to do with the focused purpose of the forum , shooting the chit or blowing off steam etc... in the off season is where this goes back to , as people get bored when season is not in- There are people that register to hunting sites to do nothing but cause trouble some turkey hunt some pretend to, I threw off about a half dozen infiltrators last year one in particular was out of brooklyn NY - and he was linked up with a few others across the country - they focused only on very left politics - PETA activists , - banned
Back to the bingos -- that was actually Annie's Idea !! I told her straight up it would not work on a turkey hunting site , boy was I wrong !! The bingo is so wildly popular ,and I have so many people wanting to host them , I have had to modify the registration process to allow a higher volume of them - I have been pondering on if I should run 2 to 3 of them at the same time on the same week because of the amount of callmakers and businessmen wanting to do them - I may have to spread them out throughout the year towards December if necessary - We have given away turkey guns , raffled of hunts etc.. I may in the future make a few phone calls and have some big ticket items like this , if I ever get around to it
This site is the best & where else can a turkey addict go & find people as good as the ones we have on here. Its more than a group of guys/gals talking turkey. Instead its like one huge extended family. (5,000 strong). My wife has made comments to me about why I am always on this site & I tell her its b/c I can relate to all of you. You all are the best group of "internet" people/friends that I have ever talked to. Thank you Shannon & Annie for giving us turkey fanatics an awesome place to share our addiction...... God Bless.....
No doubt this is my favorite site I've ever been on. I only wish I would've found it a few years earlier. OG rocks! :you_rock:
Wow...was I number 5000? And where do I pick up my winnings? :z-winnersmiley:
;D Shannon, jeez, I was joking. Actually, all sites are lucky to get 10% participation. If there was some way to send out a Site notification of the ones that haven't been on a certain length of time, many who have forgotten they registered would be back, but as far as I'm aware no one has figured out how to do that with a site program. If you don't think Bingo is popular, look at how many every night are waiting for the states to be posted. The prizes are excellent, and no need for bigger or more expensive. I wouldn't run them during Turkey season too much, being a lot of guys are on the road, and it's nice to have in the off season for something to do.
Congrats to Old Gobbler. That is quite an accomplishment!! Lots of good people here.. :happy0064:
Nice stats! Congrats!
You mentioned only 10% of active members post. I'm venturing a guess that a lot of people use the boards "search" feature, find what they wanted to know and never log on again. Or some boards require you register to see the pictures. Sometimes the pictures are the answer they were looking for.
Congratulations.
I do enjoy the site and the information it provides.
I love this site. There aren't a great deal of turkey hunters in my area, so its nice to get some fresh perspective on here. I've made puchases, sold items, learned a great deal of turkey knowledge, had a few laughs, and made great friends through this site. Can't beat it IMO
Congrats on 5000. Great place to "virtually" hang out! Not sure the boss would appreciate it but what he don't know... :icon_thumright:
I believe one of the biggest keys to the success of OG is NO LIBERAL BS and NO HEATED ARGUMENTS. I've been on hunting sites where they just argue on and on back and forth and its one of those that have just a few regulars. Some even have a political forum where libs and conservatives(maybe) can argue.
GREAT SITE! GREAT PEOPLE! GREAT MODERATORS! What more could you ask for! Congratulations and Thanks Shannon!
Shannon and Annie my hats off to you with the success of Old Gobbler!! Can't begin to tell you of the enjoyment I get from it.. Love to meet some of the fine folks on OG someday! Thank You, Gary
Quote from: Spring_Woods on March 06, 2013, 11:08:25 AM
Nice stats! Congrats!
You mentioned only 10% of active members post. I'm venturing a guess that a lot of people use the boards "search" feature, find what they wanted to know and never log on again. Or some boards require you register to see the pictures. Sometimes the pictures are the answer they were looking for.
10% on
other boards ,or forum boards as a generality - we do much higher than that 40-50% I think depending :icon_thumright:
I don't know if guests can use the search function here? Ill look into that
Jay, the bingo games notification , I can do it PM or Email - I did a Email years ago and some people don't like it , others
love it - The large internet providers hate it , like comcast etc... and they will flag you as a mass email spammer and block you off their routers and servers - There is a constant war going on with internet providers to block spammers out of eastern block (Russia) and ( china)
If you remember the sever crashed 2 years ago when we got up to 4,000 members and all Annie had to do was send out a mass email and we had 1,600 members in a month alone register back up again - I do enjoy the trouble free atmosphere I have now , its very laid back, easy going just the way
I like it , and it will stay that way
Bingo games take time to run , and when I am hunting I usually hold off , but I now happen to have a blistering fast sophisticated high tech "device" that I can monitor the site from the most remote mosquito infested swamp , so the games go on !! season is under way for me , but for northern hunters the excitement is building
5 years ago , actually 6 , I had OldGobbler 1 full year before I made a announcement , before I even had a single member , Annie made me up and got the domain name oldgobbler.com the site looked similar to the primos forum we made it and forgot about it ,It was intended for about 12 of my closest friends to stay in touch with - Saylfish, eric, Jimbob , Speckslayer and more are my lifetime childhood friends that we all turkey hunted with - we built a site that we would like ourselves , it just so happens a couple of thousand turkey hunters think the same exact way we do and keep on registering every single day -- a year latter we decided to let some people in so we re-did it with the more modern dark background made a few phone calls to some friends I already knew from before like Dave Smith , Pradco , etc... we had instant site advertisers right off the bat - I have actually had to turn down folks from adds cause we only had so many , or their product was a conflict of interest like (china) -
I will go more into depth to share with you how fast social media sites are changing .... 5 years ago there were no Iphones only some had a slower 2g blackberries - the site would have 20-30 people combined on the site through out the day as most people were working ,but at night it would spike as they logged on from home PC's - now many people have smart phones 3G ones , and many have 4g phones , and within 10 years the home phone will be extinct and literally everyone will have a 4G or faster phone - there is during the season about 200 people online all day long cause people can access the site via smart phones , and that # will go up in the years to come - the down side is that these devices are hard to type and post on , but some are getting very fast - and easy to type on
Congrats Shannon!
I really enjoy the site and look at it at least once a day. I just like to read the different posts. I enjoy reading.
Yeah, sometimes I have something to say, especially went it hits my sore spot.............GUN CONTROL!!!!!!
I am just about sick and darn tired of what this nation has become!!
This is a good way to get the word out and stick together!!
Godspeed "OLD GOBBLER!!
Awesome OG!!!! :icon_thumright: :you_rock: :happy0064:
I don't feel as if the day is complete if I don't visit old gobbler at least 3 or 4 times! Congrats on reaching 5k! I just like it because no one ever hesitates to help another member out. even if it's a off the wall question. Someone always helps out. Thanks for an awesome site!