MISTAKE #1:

HIDING THE COMMUNITY!

If the only way to find your community is find and click a small link on one of your menus, you're making a HUGE mistake. Don't count on people to find it, they WON'T! They have better things to do than click every single link on your site! PUT THE COMMUNITY IN FRONT OF THEIR FACE, PREFERABLY ON THE HOME PAGE.

When people don't SEE your community, they FORGET your community. It's that simple.

MISTAKE #2:

NOT MAKING THE COMMUNITY AS ADDICTIVE AS IT CAN BE

If Your Community Isn't Addictive, Every Minute Of Every Day More Members Are Leaving.

In order for members to engage, post, share, like and comment, you must make your site highly addictive. But how? You probably think that making a site addictive will cost you money or time.

However, read on... I will explain that it's none of the above.

How Can You Get Your Members To Promote You Totally Free?

Think about this, do you think Facebook paid even one dollar for promotions? No way! The members did all the work! They turned it in a viral machine by sharing, liking and commenting and, of course, inviting their friends. But what made Facebook so addictive that people could not help but share it?

What Is The One Thing That Will Make Your Users So Addicted To Your Site That They Can't Help But Using It, Every Day?

It's The Secret To Facebook, Twitter And LinkedIn Success And It's Easier Than You Think

In one word: ALERTS. Those little red/white visual cues at the top of the page, they grab your attention, they make you STOP everything you're doing to see what they're about. Who liked my post? Who shared it? Who commented? You must know NOW...

Facebook Does It, Twitter Does It, LinkedIn Does It? How About You?

All the big social network KNOW what makes a site ADDICTIVE. They studied it, they learned it and they use it to make billions. They ALL use a TOOLBAR with HIGHLY ADDICTIVE alerts across the TOP on ALL pages of the site. This toolbar with its alert is what makes these highly successful site SO compelling!

Things May Be Happening In Your Community, But No One Knows

Users may get emails, may have their videos and photos "liked" and even may have comments on their posts, but they simply won't know about it. (That is unless they get an email alert. But this can happen a lot later, and not in real time while they use your site). UNLESS….you get a TOP TOOLBAR with alerts that keep your members engaged ALL THE TIME!

MISTAKE #3:

Fancy Or Complex Designs That Make People Run Away In The Other Direction

The Most Successful Social Networks Have Another Thing In Common:

SUPER SIMPLE designs!

Just look at Facebook, you can see a screen capture below. Can a design get any simpler? It's simply a blue toolbar on top with alerts and search, left navigation to access the rest of the pages and that's it! Blue links, white background. Nothing groundbreaking.

Did you ask yourself why? Surely they can afford the best designer in the whole world! They can have beautiful colorful design and eye-catching graphics, but they don't. The reason is simple...keep reading…

What The Big Social Network Sites Know, That Most Don't

They know that in order to make a site addictive and have people come back, they MUST keep the design simple. Yup, simple! No moving graphics, no colorful backgrounds, no fancy fonts! The simpler - the better!

A Fancy Design Will Distract Your Users From What They Came To Do: Participate

IT'S ABOUT CONTENT, NOT DESIGN

By keeping their social network designs simple, they make sure people don't get distracted with “this or that” design element and can focus (and get addicted) to the actual content that their friends/family/contacts post, those pesky alerts and, of course, advertisements to click!

Alerts + Simple Design= Addictiveness

Now stop and ask yourself this: does your social network have all the elements required to make it addictive and the HUGE success it can potentially be?

• Is it visible, right on the HOME PAGE and other pages?
• Can people see ADDICTIVE ALERTS on ALL pages?
• Does it have a simple design that's not distracting from the content people post and the alerts?

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