Well, after Lunarpages gave me the equivalent of one of the less desireable aspects of prison last week, I've been making a mad dash to move onto a new server. Long story short, it looks like my vbulletin forum is going to be back up and running after a being down for 6 days. AHHH!

I am furious, but that's another story. Now I'm in the mode of getting back on the horse.

I've been keeping my member's updated with the progress via my Aweber mailing list (which sits at around 6,000 members so far), but I'm afraid that it may be slow going for a while once we get back up.

Any ideas as far as how to revive this thing?

Brandon

emailing is what I would do as well, how many members does the forum have? or is that the 6k list you've been using.
Have everything up and ready for the members when they come back, try and make some new post and threads with the according content.

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Well obviously the newsletter is going out. That one is a given. The forum has about 12,000 members. I think 1,200 of those were active in the past 30 days.

Yeah, that's pretty much a given all the time. I was just curious if anyone has been in a similar situation and if there were any specific tricks a person could utilize to get the site back to normal quicker.

I guess it comes down to conventional marketing tricks.

Brandon

I've helped bring a number of dead forums back to life with the crowdgather network.
For example, this forum Eternal Allegiance - Celebrity Gossip went months without new post.. We are getting new post almost every day and new threads and new members every week. We haven't sent out an email to those old members yet, we are building up a few thousand new post or close to 1,000 new post for any old member to login and see the forums.

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I would make sure that the site is 100% working before you send a mass mail to all members apologising for the downtime, also I'd make a heap of posts so members have something to read/respond to when they come back.

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My forum is pretty deserted too... except for the members that come to play the arcade games, i haven't got some posts in quite a while. Looks like only the staff started posting anything.

But i'll be sure to bring it back to life and improve it by the end of the exams

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This is my school holiday project too, to rejuvinate my site.

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Well... this is going to be my NEXT project as i'm graduating in about 6 weeks... and then i'll be able to dedicate more time to the vB stuff

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