A Quick Ask to Our Community Members

[peter]

Hi Everyone,

First, thank you for being here since the early days — your support means the world to me.

Here’s where we’re at: our community has been growing fast (over 51 – 63% per month, month after month for the last few months). Google and AI tools are starting to recommend LinkedMusicians when people ask about the best forums for plugin and sample library deals and for music producer forums, contrasting it with the big forums as a friendlier, welcoming environment without the toxicity commonplace on the big forums. That’s huge and, in terms of sesarch and AI presence, we’re sliightly ahead of where I expected we’d be at this point.

Here’s the big challenge from my perspective: my tendinitis has gotten very bad from all of the work on this site, but I know that if I stop posting deals, this community will die a quick death, because we’re not seeing much posting activitiy beyond my posts. While I’m posing more deals than the other forums -yes even the major ones (I monitor the deals sections and commercial announcements of all all of them each day — not actually visiting the sites, but using scrapping that automatically updates in a single interface, so I can quickly see the deals and new product and service announcements at each major forum, subreddit, blog, etc.). We have A LOT MORE deals than any of the big forums and far more than the small developer owned forum many of our earlier members came from. However, when all visitors see is a bunch of deals posted with no responses, they don’t register to join the site.

The differences in the number of people registering on days where we have even several people posting comments and the days where we only have a few people commenting — which is most of the last couple weeks — is dramatic. Even more, Google and AI interpret that lack of interaction on the threads as a sign that the community is dead and, subsequently, we lose the high rankings and mentions — very quickly. All of the work we achieved is soon lost, and I would expect that we’re on the cusp of that happening right now. In short, a quiet community = low engagement, and that quickly hurts both our growth and our visibility online. Even more though, I created this community as a passion project. It’s been a money pit, TBH, and I can’t say that I have an interest in continuing to post deals when people aren’t interacting. The joy I get out of the community is our interactions and people sharing their joy of music — sharing, learning, and enjoying this community.

So, here are two simple ways that you can help LinkedMusicians grow:

1. Comment on threads.
2. Share your thoughts or experiences with the plugins and sample libraries posted. Even quick reactions or likes make a difference. Yes, giving a post a like and commenting “This sounds really good!” makes a difference to visitors, search engines, and AI tools.

Communities thrive on conversation — when people see interaction, they join in. Without it, they just lurk and move on. The more activity we spark together, the stronger LinkedMusicians becomes.

Thanks for helping keep this community alive and growing. Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd — and you are the spark.

– Peter

LinkedMusicians Founder. Your friend who keeps the beat.

Check out my music. 

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[Dorian Gray]

ive been a lurker for some time and just registered today. its a nice site with an excellent deals forum. i agree on the lack of people posting keeps people from bothering to register. i thought it would be worthwhile for getting notifications and private forums mentioned. hopefully people will get more involved. i like what ur doing with the site.

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[LinkedMusicians]

First, our community is starting to post a little more. That’s really appreciated! Please keep going!

Our website traffic has more than doubled over the last 7 days over the prior 7 day period. But we’re not seeing a lot of referrals — that is, our members telling others about LM, so we can really use your help spreading the word.

I expected to see a significant increase in traffic as we near Black Friday, and that’s exactly what seems to be happening. People are anticipating deals with deep discounts and freebies as they had seen in recent years, starting in October. So, it’s a huge opportunity to turn a bunch of those folks from lurkers to members, and it takes them seeing conversations on the site to do that. We could easily double our membership in the next two months if we can increase the number / percent of threads where people comment.

And just from the discounts and freebies we’ve seen on the first day of October, I think we’re going to be seeing a great deal of very deep discounts and freebies over these next two months. Heck, the next three months, really.

What do you think?

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[peter]

In case you didn’t see it last time, I even wrote a song to encourage you to post. It took me all of 5 minutes to write and around an hour to record and complete. Nothing impressive, but I thought it was slightly amusing. I wrote it for you!

LinkedMusicians Founder. Your friend who keeps the beat.

Check out my music. 

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[LinkedMusicians]

We still have less than 1 percent of our site visitors commenting. Come on guys! It’s not much fun to completely ruin myself with tendinitis pain posting deals and not hear from you! I did this site for people. Let me know what you want to see, what you want to discuss. We have the canvas and can paint on it anyway we see fit. Okay, well, within certain limits of decency! 😉 But I don’t see a point in continuing with this site without interaction. It’s seeing major increases in traffic, but people are mainly using it as a deal site, not a place to discuss making music and our shared love of music, which is what motivates me.

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