2024 - Promoting ExtremeHW

[ENTERPRISE]

Hello all, 

 

2024 will be a year of promoting the community through appropriate avenues to let the world know "We are here!" and increase community traffic. This will be done through the avenues as listed below and this post will be updated accordingly with respects additional avenues used and when the promotion has been completed/ in progress.  

 

• Promote EHW via Technology related Facebook/Twitter groups - Feel free to suggest any groups!
• Promote EHW via Local Media Outlets
• Promote EHW via International Media Outlets (USA/CA/EU) - Feel free to suggest any outlets!
• Pay Per Click Google Ads
• Supply EHW Business Card/Pamphet with every Ebay (or similar) sales. - If you are happy to help with this, I can supply you with the media to do so!
• Clean up YT Channel, better descriptions with backlinks and improved Thumbnails. Possibly merge Podcast videos to Official EHW channel.

 

I am keen on promoting the community to increase interactions between our membership and to increase the volume and variety of content for all to enjoy. I am dedicated to making this community the best it can be, we (in my opinion) have the platform down which for me was always an integral stage. Now it is time to bring the people! 

 

Online discussion forums is a competitive space and these days it is hard for a new start-up to gain traction. We have done well up to this point through word of mouth. Thanks to all who have spread the word of EHW and I hope you will continue to do so

 

If you have any suggestions on any additional avenues you feel would help, please feel free to post. I feel the more minds put to the task, the better. 

 

All the best,
E

 

 

[ENTERPRISE]

Release.

[Avacado]

I am on board with distributing material through ebay sales when I have them. I'll have to think on the rest. Do you have any ideas on how to promote EHW through media outlets without paying them?

[ENTERPRISE]

2 minutes ago, Avacado said:

I am on board with distributing material through ebay sales when I have them. I'll have to think on the rest. Do you have any ideas on how to promote EHW through media outlets without paying them?

 

Awesome

 

No ideas on the media outlets so far as which are free and which are paid, but I will cross that bridge when I start really delving into it. Free obviously better, but if the cost is worth it, I am all ears.

[pio]

I'm always promoting EHW.

Anything I can do to help further our site's reach so the tech communities start realizing we're here, I'll do.

Edited January 8 by pioneerisloud

[GanjaSMK]

How can I help!? 

 

[UltraMega]

Maybe a quick 15 second YouTube video commercial? Then we could link it to stuff. Maybe YouTubes algorithm would recommend it to some tekkies with a little luck. 

 

"Are you tired of those other forums?" 

**cuts to clip of Linus apologizing for something**

"Try EHW!" 

Edited January 8 by UltraMega

[ENTERPRISE]

4 hours ago, GanjaSMK said:

How can I help!? 

 

I will certainly give you a shout once I have things a little more organized

1 hour ago, UltraMega said:

Maybe a quick 15 second YouTube video commercial? Then we could link it to stuff. Maybe YouTubes algorithm would recommend it to some tekkies with a little luck. 

 

"Are you tired of those other forums?" 

**cuts to clip of Linus apologizing for something**

"Try EHW!" 

YouTube ads could be another reasonable way to advertise the site, no doubt. Good idea

[GanjaSMK]

3 hours ago, UltraMega said:

Maybe a quick 15 second YouTube video commercial? Then we could link it to stuff. Maybe YouTubes algorithm would recommend it to some tekkies with a little luck. 

 

"Are you tired of those other forums?" 

**cuts to clip of Linus apologizing for something**

"Try EHW!" 

 

YES. Oh lawdy. 

 

 

[bonami2]

I was thinking maybe a Linkedin Page. 

[ENTERPRISE]

10 hours ago, bonami2 said:

I was thinking maybe a Linkedin Page. 

Hmmm, Now I could be wrong but isn't Linkedin best for singular people to show off work history and portfolios? Not sure if it would be a good fit.  

 

Thanks for the suggestions so far guys.

[Slaughtahouse]

PM sent

[pio]

24 minutes ago, Slaughtahouse said:

PM sent

same

[Slaughtahouse]

1 hour ago, pioneerisloud said:

same

[bonami2]

7 hours ago, ENTERPRISE said:

Hmmm, Now I could be wrong but isn't Linkedin best for singular people to show off work history and portfolios? Not sure if it would be a good fit.  

 

Thanks for the suggestions so far guys.

I need to take a look. They are kinda like group so it true it may not work for us. I need to rethink about my weird idea haha.

 

[ENTERPRISE]

17 hours ago, bonami2 said:

I need to take a look. They are kinda like group so it true it may not work for us. I need to rethink about my weird idea haha.

 

 

All ideas welcome...even if weird

[UltraMega]

I think ehw needs a new YouTube channel separate from the podcast channel. I'm not  sure how this would work exactly as far as uploading, but if there were just a handful of interesting videos of various PC stuff, it would go a long way towards creating a presence there that might bring in a few users. 

 

Maybe there could be a cloud storage that people could dump video files onto that could later be uploaded to an ehw channel, assuming anyone would want to donate some video content. I'd be happy to put a few in game benchmark videos or just gameplay videos up. 

 

There are definitely some unique builds here, and a video that was something like "demanding game running on 4090 SLI" would definitely bring in some views. 

Edited January 10 by UltraMega

[Avacado]

16 hours ago, UltraMega said:

I think ehw needs a new YouTube channel separate from the podcast channel. I'm not  sure how this would work exactly as far as uploading, but if there were just a handful of interesting videos of various PC stuff, it would go a long way towards creating a presence there that might bring in a few users. 

 

Maybe there could be a cloud storage that people could dump video files onto that could later be uploaded to an ehw channel, assuming anyone would want to donate some video content. I'd be happy to put a few in game benchmark videos or just gameplay videos up. 

 

There are definitely some unique builds here, and a video that was something like "demanding game running on 4090 SLI" would definitely bring in some views. 

This is actually a good idea. I second this opinion.

[ENTERPRISE]

21 hours ago, UltraMega said:

I think ehw needs a new YouTube channel separate from the podcast channel. I'm not  sure how this would work exactly as far as uploading, but if there were just a handful of interesting videos of various PC stuff, it would go a long way towards creating a presence there that might bring in a few users. 

 

Maybe there could be a cloud storage that people could dump video files onto that could later be uploaded to an ehw channel, assuming anyone would want to donate some video content. I'd be happy to put a few in game benchmark videos or just gameplay videos up. 

 

There are definitely some unique builds here, and a video that was something like "demanding game running on 4090 SLI" would definitely bring in some views. 

Hmmm, I am not 100% sold on the idea of another channel. The current YT Channel would suffice, all that is required is to organise it into playlists such as Review Content, Podcasts and another category to be named for user based uploads. I do not see the benefit of managing an additional channel strictly for a different category of content that relates to the same subject matter . Perhaps I am missing the point?

[Avacado]

1 hour ago, ENTERPRISE said:

Hmmm, I am not 100% sold on the idea of another channel. The current YT Channel would suffice, all that is required is to organise it into playlists such as Review Content, Podcasts and another category to be named for user based uploads. I do not see the benefit of managing an additional channel strictly for a different category of content that relates to the same subject matter . Perhaps I am missing the point?

If pushing out our newer content on the current channel can be done than that would be a bonus. In order to inflict dopamine hits for Gen Z, we will have to adapt video content for sure. I need to bug Simmons about the podcast, we need that back

[UltraMega]

1 hour ago, ENTERPRISE said:

Hmmm, I am not 100% sold on the idea of another channel. The current YT Channel would suffice, all that is required is to organise it into playlists such as Review Content, Podcasts and another category to be named for user based uploads. I do not see the benefit of managing an additional channel strictly for a different category of content that relates to the same subject matter . Perhaps I am missing the point?

 

You're right the current channel is fine. I was only aware of the podcast channel. Just saw that there is a second one. 

 

Looking at a few of the videos on that second channel that have more views, there are no links back to ehw. There are links to review articles but not to the home page. Links to the EHW homepage should be at the top of every video description. 

 

Looking at that channel, you can see there is also a clear relationship between thumbnail quality and views. Some of the more recent videos have pretty weak thumbnails and hardly any views. 

 

 

But yea we could use that channel to put out some more community made videos for sure. Looking at what's on there now, a couple case review videos got decent views but most of them are just way too specific and boring. 

[ENTERPRISE]

15 minutes ago, UltraMega said:

 

You're right the current channel is fine. I was only aware of the podcast channel. Just saw that there is a second one. 

 

Looking at a few of the videos on that second channel that have more views, there are no links back to ehw. There are links to review articles but not to the home page. Links to the EHW homepage should be at the top of every video description. 

 

Looking at that channel, you can see there is also a clear relationship between thumbnail quality and views. Some of the more recent videos have pretty weak thumbnails and hardly any views. 

 

 

But yea we could use that channel to put out some more community made videos for sure. Looking at what's on there now, a couple case review videos got decent views but most of them are just way too specific and boring. 

I agree that more effort must be made on the video descriptions/thumbnails with appropriate back links. It is something I will add to the list

[UltraMega]

29 minutes ago, ENTERPRISE said:

I agree that more effort must be made on the video descriptions/thumbnails with appropriate back links. It is something I will add to the list

 

What are your thoughts on setting up some kind of drop box users can dump video files onto? 

[neurotix]

Here's my suggestion:

 

@ENTERPRISEI know it's on the back burner for you, but you have multiple t-shirt designs you need to sample and then add to the store.

 

Going into a Microcenter or a Best Buy and possibly other places wearing a shirt with "Extremehw.net" in big letters across your chest is some good real-world (meatspace lol) advertising. Surely someone would notice and possibly check the site out and join.

 

[UltraMega]

1 hour ago, neurotix said:

Here's my suggestion:

 

@ENTERPRISEI know it's on the back burner for you, but you have multiple t-shirt designs you need to sample and then add to the store.

 

Going into a Microcenter or a Best Buy and possibly other places wearing a shirt with "Extremehw.net" in big letters across your chest is some good real-world (meatspace lol) advertising. Surely someone would notice and possibly check the site out and join.

 

 

I second this. I know when we were doing the t-shirts it was probably design overload at the time, but I was just having fun with AI image gen at the time and seeing what it could do. There has to be room for a couple more creative designs. 

 

It would be good to have the EHW YouTube channel setup so that each video description starts with a link to the EHW homepage followed by a link to the EHW merch store. With a couple creative designs, who knows. Maybe the merch would bring in a few sales straight from YouTube. 

Edited January 15 by UltraMega