Get people in charge as editors of your new site who are allready within the community. Who allready have respect. Thats the way to have your community-based niche sites to lift from the ground. These will be able to “spread the word” and “give people something to talk about”.
Advice number two: remember to Design for Selfishness. There should be something in it for each contributor. Giving a voice is not enough. You need extra-fame opportunities or money to make it roll.
Those were among the words of Derek Powazek, founder of 8020 Publishing. He’s just left the stage here at the knock-knock conference in Aarhus. And three days ago he started his from web-community to printmagazine community website jpgmag.com.
Those are great advices, I think! I’ll hereby ad them to my free all-giveaway businessproporsition the day before yesterday – you know the From me to you: A usergenerated niche-site cashcow (idea)