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“Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on.” -from the 2001 movie Blow
When ad revenue is high, we can overlook other ways to monetize our communities. Many of...
Note: This is reprinted from the original on my Medium profile here, since I thought people on TAZ may appreciate the article too.
As nearly everyone in the web development world is aware, WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world. Responsible for powering 35% of the web and growing, the...
Note: This article was originally posted on my Medium.com account here, and rejected from at least one publication for being too negative.
As I’m sure you’re all aware, good UX design is not exactly common place in today’s software world. Whethers it in social media sites or games, mobile apps...
Note: I originally posted this on my Medium account here, but felt it was super relevant to the Admin Zone as well, hence the repost.
Over the years, there have many articles written about marketing mistakes made by companies and creators. From launching too late to not checking the market...
It’s time to return to Gutenberg, and see how things have changed.
Cause a month or so ago, I reviewed it in a lengthy review. In said review, I went over its pros and cons, the bits that were there and needed work, and the various use cases the editor had. In that post, I said Gutenberg had a...
As virtually every web developer knows, default CSS styles vary widely between browsers. Whether it’s the rounded, gradient based looks present in Safari or the more blocky one used by IE and Firefox, these differences end up leaving developers stuck using resets to get everything back to...
Let’s talk Gutenberg
No, not the printing press or the bloke who invented it a few hundred years ago. The new WordPress editor that’s now available WordPress 5, which aims to replace the crumbling old TinyMCE layout with a more modern, block based alternative.
It’s a big project, and it’s one...
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Stage theories in general describe how we go through distinct stages as we develop. Thus, rather than gradually changing, we typically make sudden shifts to different plateaus of perception and behavior. This may be associated with 'aha's of sudden understanding.
Levinger's...
https://hbr.org/2016/09/the-elements-of-value
When customers evaluate a product or service, they weigh its perceived value against the asking price. Marketers have generally focused much of their time and energy on managing the price side of that equation, since raising prices can immediately...
Note: I originally published the below story as an article on Medium in the Art + Marketing publication. It's being mirrored here so I can see what TAZ members think of the article and the views included in it.
In recent years, Discord has been growing in popularity. Designed as a chat service...
Hi TAZ!
I recently published a research about video advertising on my website and wanted to share a short and sweet version here on The Admin Zone. Ready?
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Videos are the marketing tool with the highest engagement rates nowadays on the internet. Every day, more marketers are using video...
Note: I originally posted this over on Medium, but have now decided it'd be good to post on The Admin Zone as well. Enjoy the article!
In recent times, we’ve seen a lot of articles about the problems caused by social media. It’s been accused of spreading fake news, it’s been said to bolster...
Over the last few years, we've seen a lot of comments about 'deterrence' and 'punishment' not working to stop crime. From numerous studies to online articles and examples taken from certain countries, the expert consensus seems to be that the threat of prison doesn't stop criminals and that the...
I’ve decided to make my first blog the story of how Nexopia “died” in 2010. Maybe it’ll save some other forum out there. If you have any similar stories I’d love to hear them!
Nexopia is an online community website which includes blogs, galleries, and forums. It was very similar to Facebook...
Well, this is interesting. Apparently I now have a blog, with my previous article on community management having been converted to a post on it. No, I'm not sure that's the case either. Perhaps The Sandman thought the feature needed more users?
Eh, it's hard to tell.
But either way, given this...
As you may know, I’ve been writing articles about community management for a while now. I’ve written them for vBulletin.org, with a general focus on that software and how it can be adapted for a good forum. I’ve written them for The Admin Zone (and every other website merged into it), with a bit...
When I sit back and think about all of the mistakes that I have made as a webmaster over the years. It's always been a short term vision of what I wanted to do with the project. And not realizing that many of the website/forums out there have taken years to establish themselves.
Especially...
In the last few years or so, Reddit has been through some tough times. It’s been accused of going back on its claims to support free speech. It’s been intense fire for banning certain subreddits and being hypocritical about others.
And with stuff like admins editing posts and staff members...
During the early 2000's you could put up a forum and wave the magic wand and presto you had a forum and you had forum members. And I can tell you from a user's perspective 90% of the forums that I have found over the years, I have found them by google searches. And 10% were recommended to me by...
The chances are that you and your forum have competition and rival communities out there. You can easily gather intelligence on your rival communities and use it to your advantage to better your message forum. As the title says, do what other forum owners don’t! Look to see what your competition...