Originally Posted by
RickLeigh
Right now we have 4 volunteers on the support team. One has been very active most of the time. I feel that once the advertising kicks in and the word spreads it will be more active. Only time and allot of effort will tell
I have some local tracks and hobby shops that have a banner, flyer, biz cards, and even my URL on their receipts to help promote the site. It has been less then a year online so we can only hope that our local and world wide hobbyists will give the site a chance. We are offering several options right now for hobbyists to promote their events, shops, products, tracks, etc. that would cost them money on other sites for FREE. I'm not quit sure that visitors understand that this is an option on YHC and we will be working hard to advertise it in the near future.
It’s hard to start a forum style site when there is nothing of interest in the forums yet. People want to jump in a conversation more then they want to start one. But, a forum won’t have any content endless someone posts it.
I've been trying to visit as many hobby shops, tracks, airfields, etc. as I can. This winter we will be working hard on the website to provide as much R/C content as we can and hoping to get the LIVE R/C SUPPORT team to grow in numbers to help the R/C community. I believe it will be fun and a chance to come closer to the hobbyist's needs to keep the hobby alive.
If you are using IRC, what server / channel?
PS: RcTEch had IRC Chat and no one used it. In the end I was maintaining the channel.
Cheers.
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