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May 8, 2007 at 1:02 am #26927MrEggsaladParticipant
I don’t have any quote for you from something else we have said like Dave does, however, I do have a point to be made.
If someone were to ask you what the benefits of being a premier member were, what would you say? I’ll bet many of you don’t even know what they are or how much it even costs.
Here is what it says the featuers are:
“Premier members have access to the special Premier Members forum, increased private message storage, custom avatars, custom titles and more!”First off, everyone has custom avatars. You can’t advertise something they have. Second, I know I only PM so much, increased PM space would mean nothing to me. Custom titles is really all I am seeing there, and that is not worth $12 a year to me.
I think we need to think of some more things we can give these wonderful people. Maybe they get a free BBB Shirt or BBB product of their choice. Like a voucher for one free item from the BBB store.
We also need to start adding premium content into the premier member’s forums. I’m not sure what that content would be however.
Any comments/questions/ideas ?
May 8, 2007 at 1:08 am #160932PhilipModeratorRyan, if you haven’t noticed, the Premier Members forum is as dead as a doorknob (unless they have another exclusive forum area for themselves?) I don’t know about anyone else, but I would think very hard about joining or becoming a Premier Member.
May 8, 2007 at 1:11 am #160928DavidParticipantWhen we have a contest, they should get lead-time on it. Like a day or two before it is posted to the rest of the community.
How about an @bigblueball.com address?
Maybe http://user.bigblueball.com?
An IRC vhost?
+v on IRC?
Adfree content?
extended BBB profile?
May 8, 2007 at 1:11 am #160930MrEggsaladParticipantHonestly as of now, I would NOT join up as a Premier Member. That’s why we need some fresh ideas to bring them in. Try to think, what would make you want to join? What would you want (realistically)
EDIT (Dave posted before I finished :P):
All good ideas Dave. I like Adfree and an @bigblueball.com address. Those are probably the most popular two (or at least that is what I would think would be). Voice on IRC as well just makes you feel special, it’s nice. An IRC vHost probably wouldn’t mean much to people.May 8, 2007 at 1:13 am #160929DavidParticipantNo rate limits on posting.
May 8, 2007 at 2:01 am #160926detn8rParticipantWasn’t the premier member thing a cash grab thing anyway? maybe rebrand it, to “Exclusive BBB VIP”. I dunno…. the whole premier is pointless and a waste of time trying to figure out.
May 8, 2007 at 3:36 am #160931NessaParticipantdetn8r;218229 wrote:…I dunno…. the whole premier is pointless and a waste of time trying to figure out.It’s not the idea that’s pointless it’s just the fact that this topic has been brought up endless times and regardless of how many ideas have been thrown out, nothing is ever done about it. Hence why i repeat why i think it’s about time we stop throwing ideas out there and not doing anything about them because it’s discouraging. It’s like when a new discussion comes up not everyone comments anymore because they know nothing may come out of it, or they just get a response to wait for upcoming changes which don’t seem to be coming…..
The site does need income from somewhere other than ads, especially to at least try to throw out a contest once in a while, so making easy changes to add this “exclusiveness” might be worth it.
May 8, 2007 at 4:40 am #160933PhilipModeratordetn8r;218229 wrote:Wasn’t the premier member thing a cash grab thing anyway? maybe rebrand it, to “Exclusive BBB VIP”. I dunno…. the whole premier is pointless and a waste of time trying to figure out.I’m with detn8r on this one…just looked at the main BBB forums just now. Every section had somebody viewing it except for the Premier Members section. I take that to mean 0 viewing? 😮
May 8, 2007 at 6:07 pm #160927detn8rParticipantThere are only 2 paying members to be premier anyway, correct? And one of them was banned? The rest are just retired staff. Start up a VIP campaign. This way, you don’t NEED an extra forum, and we don’t have to worry about something to give them. Obviously, it’s more so something to give back for donations, but if that is something we are wanting to throw out there, perhaps that is something we can think about when we are better off on our feet.
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