Yes after few month of very high hardwork and dedication, i think i should except that Ning-3 IS NOT what it appear or pretends to be!
Its been close to 3months and i have not been able to make my site up...
Basic features like - social sharing of groups, article images sharing, especially to fb is not there, group feed is absent, group notitifactions is not available!
Its a very simple and proven fact that people tend to be more engaging in inner circles and enage more with similar people, thats why facebook and linked has groups, and most of people enage more in groups rather then on wall or outside pages!
The worst part is member invite google app shows INSECURED and email-notifications lands up to junk! So all the possibilites of your member enagements are closed and you just can think of scaling up with such fractured system.
If anyone can please help me in any above part - please feel free to drop a comment and help me to make my site atleast standup on feet. I will be able to also pay but not huge amount.
Thanks
Ashish
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Ning team.
You took the words right out of my mouth. I started with Ning when it first launched. With all the cool features and third-party widgets and apps, my site took off. I was gaining about a 100 new members per week. With 3.0 I've have only gained 60 members and cant grow. After the company was sold it to a swan dive
Yes, thats not good.... But imagine i am sitting on duck! Not even 10members per week, can you please help me and show how do i solve these problems and how can i get members started coming? Feel free to invite me to your site, i will learn.
The internet is different from early 2010s. Features aren't going anything. What you need is a stratigey. What is your platform about? Who is it for? How are you going to improve their lives *What tools are you offering*? You gotta also push for good SEO and Advertisements. Advertisement doesn't just start or end with Adwords or Facebook ads. Granted those are some places to begin as you can target people pretty well. But also video marketing is very helpful.
Everyone always cares about growing. But need to look at what they have and use it to actually grow. All the ads and videos you release won't make you a popular website. What will do that is LOVE and NEED. You must create ONE or Both for your users ( Members, Fans. or whatever you call them).
Ning doesn't need to be the same old platform for you to be popular. Get creative.
At least compete with the current trends. Live stream is where it's at. And according to ning, they have no plans to even explore.I know use Use youtube. It's a shame all these members are struggling to just use 3.0 platform. And how many techs are there working 2? I have to make some tough decisions over the next month. I cannot even get the Ning logo off the bottom of my site page. They are more concerned about advertising than meeting customers need. I waiting for the, get a creative comment or some pacifier reply.