Facebook group

[godanesgo99]

Is there a facebook group for big purple fans? I couldn't find one, so I created one this morning.

 

It's called UA Big Purple Fans

 

I'll delete it if there is another one. And if anyone wants to be named an admin of it, send me a pm here and I'll be happy to make you one if you are a respected member here.

 

I'll delete it if there is another one, but I thought it might be a good way to drive traffic to this site if people join and post links to threads here.

[Eli]

Joined...but as a moderator of the worlds biggest Nissan/Infiniti forum I can say that FB groups tend to have the opposite effect on forums. They drive traffic AWAY from the forum because FB is MUCH easier to use than a forum, especially from a mobile device.

[GreatDanes06]

joined...not sure what you want the group to develop into, but I will give it a shot

[godanesgo99]

Made Eli an admin.

 

The point isn't to take people away from this site, so I hope that doesn't happen. Just as another site to chat and hopefully grow the fan base.

 

Ultimate goal is to help develop more rabid fans that want to attend games. Share info. Get involved.

 

If people don't like it or it doesn't develop into an active group or if it takes away from this site, I'd rather delete it.

Edited October 29, 2016 by godanesgo99

[Eli]

I can help manage it from a moderator standpoint but I won't be able to really dedicate any time to this in terms of getting it out there, building a userbase, etc. partly because I don't want to detract anything from this place.

[GreatDanes06]

sounds good to me...I'm down.

[Clickclack]

I think Facebook group serves a purpose...not everyone knows of this board. Maybe we'll catch some people who google UAlbany on Facebook and get them over here.

[godanesgo99]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/350543125291254/

[Dane Pound]

Thanks for setting that up Godanes99.

 

I'm not familiar with Facebook. I'm guessing it's a social networking site, something like Yik Yak, maybe?

[godanesgo99]

LOL. Facebook is now for the old folk. I'm sure there is one of them there new fangled social media platforms that would do a better job of driving fan interest...

[Eli]

I'd actually be curious, DP, to see if you can run some stats from when this was created to now and how it has affected traffic to this site. GDG99 has posted links back to here, so curious if it's helping driving traffic.

[godanesgo99]

Id say the new traffic generated would be EXTREMELY low at this point as there are only about 20ish members of the group. Need people to start adding friends and other fans to the group to make it reach anyone.

 

The real question would be if there are any new registration requests on this site coming from it, and how that would flow. There was the one woman who said her boyfriend has been trying to register here with no luck.

 

In retrospect I probably should have made it a "page" instead of a "group"

Edited November 2, 2016 by godanesgo99

[Dane Pound]

No real change in number of posts or registrations yet.

[godanesgo99]

The only real way for it to work is if people grow the group member list, and keep posting links to discussions on this site.

 

Join the group. Add friends to it. Convince others to do the same. Get a few hundred in the group and then you might see the increased traffic that we all desire

Edited November 2, 2016 by godanesgo99