Comments on: Nielsen Report: New Moms Heavy Socializers http://www.startasocialnetwork.com/blog/2009/04/24/nielsen-report-new-moms-heavy-socializers/ Tips, resources, and strategies for starting and marketing your own social networking site. Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:33:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ric Mazereeuw http://www.startasocialnetwork.com/blog/2009/04/24/nielsen-report-new-moms-heavy-socializers/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Ric Mazereeuw Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:41:32 +0000 http://www.startasocialnetwork.com/?p=121#comment-24 Great question, Jules... Starting a social network from a standing start is tough, and by the time member #2 joins, member #1 may have given up hope. I recommend building a launch list first (like I've done to the right to promote my book) so when you do launch, interactions can start right away. Let them know a community is coming, and invite them to secure an invitation, as with this site: http://www.phonographers.com/ Great question, Jules…

Starting a social network from a standing start is tough, and by the time member #2 joins, member #1 may have given up hope.

I recommend building a launch list first (like I’ve done to the right to promote my book) so when you do launch, interactions can start right away. Let them know a community is coming, and invite them to secure an invitation, as with this site:
http://www.phonographers.com/

]]> By: jules http://www.startasocialnetwork.com/blog/2009/04/24/nielsen-report-new-moms-heavy-socializers/comment-page-1/#comment-23 jules Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:31:43 +0000 http://www.startasocialnetwork.com/?p=121#comment-23 Hi, any advice about when is the right time to add a social network to a website. if you have a blog or website should you wait until you have loads of hits or subscribers to a newsletter before launching something like a ning subdomain in order to have a chance of populating it and make it look reasonably busy from an earlier stage Or should you just go for it early on and accept it will look empty for quite a while as it builds? or will this put people off. thanks j j Hi, any advice about when is the right time to add a social network to a website. if you have a blog or website should you wait until you have loads of hits or subscribers to a newsletter before launching something like a ning subdomain in order to have a chance of populating it and make it look reasonably busy from an earlier stage

Or should you just go for it early on and accept it will look empty for quite a while as it builds? or will this put people off.

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