[100 days] DeuceAce.com - Poker discussion forums

[John D]

Hey everyone,

Time to get the community challenges going!

The site is www.DeuceAce.com

I am trying to aim pretty high for a new forum of mine, I will be putting a lot more into this one than my others and I think I can reach my goals.

Here are my main goals:

[ ] Write 20 poker room reviews myself
[ ] Write 10 poker related articles myself
[ ] Add at least 2 flash poker movies
[ ] Have a steady rate of at least 200 unique visitors per day
[ ] Generate an income of at least $300/month average
[ ] Reach 600 registered members
[ ] Reach 7500 quality posts
[ ] Improve my custom design
[ ] Add a directory to the site and get at least 200 submissions


Some of these are high targets to reach because I run quite a few sites but I know if I put a lot of effort into the site I can manage it.

I will keep this thread updated with the progress of all my goals and cross them off when I reach each.
I will include what I am doing to reach my goals and if they are working or not.

Any feedback, ideas or suggestions let me know

Good luck to anyone else doing their own challenges!

Once more: www.DeuceAce.com

John

[John D]

Just an update...

Have been really busy lately so haven't had much of a chance to work on the site but I will be starting from today again.

I have two other sites that I am finishing off but they should be finished soon so I can work on DeuceAce full time

Still think I will meet my goals!

[PHPGeek2k3]

good luck some of those goals are pretty high for a new forum. But if you keep at it you will achieve them.

Thanks
- James

[John D]

Ok its time to cheat

I don't have enough time so I'm going to pay someone to start doing articles and room reviews for me.

My stats are going up at a small but steady rate, I think I will reach the avg. of 200 uniques/day hopefully with some help from google when the content gets indexed more

I have to think about the poker flash movies..I think it is difficult coming up with ideas on what to do the flash movies about so I think that just needs more thought.

Income...doing well in this regards and starting to get people just signing up for ad space through my advertising page. I have most of my space booked up for a few months and I am hoping to get a few long term sponsors worked out maybe by the end of my challenge.

The hard part...members and posts.
I think this is the hardest part of my challenge, although I haven't started doing any paid advertising - Any money I have made is going into content and paying for coding I have had done.
Any poker players here? Time for you to help me out with this challenge

Custom design..I have a contest going on right now for the navigation bar but I really haven't seen anything I like that would fit the design - If there are any designers here the contest ends tomorrow (Tuesday) - PM me for a link if your interested in doing a nav bar.

The directory hasn't had many submissions simply because I haven't advertised it anywhere and it isn't even in the navigation bar because I'm waiting for a new design - So this is another problem!

[Sahisp]

Just to into the admin panel / forums & moderators / forum permissions then change it just for this forum so posts can be edited.

Is that what you mean?