The state of Parfumo - answer to Aromi's blog article
12 years ago
My answer to AromiErotici's blog entry has become a bit lengthy, so I put it here.
At first, I want to thank Aromi for his thoughts and his sympathy for this project. I think it is important to consider once in a while where we are standing at the moment.
I really like the small community that has already come together at Parfumo.net. All take their hobby seriously, and one can only be impressed by the high quality of the perfume reviews that are posted here. And they are already many! We will soon have 5000 + well thought out reviews here, and considered this is a much smaller community than Parfumo.de, we are more active!
A big thank you to all of you who made this possible!
The main focus of Parfumo are the users' reviews. There will be more discussions in the forum as well, but as a prerequisite, Parfumo has to attract more people. I would really love to see the forum become more crowded (not necessarily overcrowded and chaotic as you might blame some other boards). So, please spread the word! Link Parfumo to your site if you have one, tell your friends, and place a link once in a while at your Facebook groups.
In addition to the logged in users, Parfumo.net has many visitors every day. We are having readers!
Until Parfumo.net will become bigger, we can enjoy the benefits of a smaller community. Whatever you do here – it will be noticed by the other users. (I started my perfume hobby on BN in 2008, and I was getting hardly any feedback for my activities there.)
Having said that – may I remind you once again to give each other feedback? Please answer to the reviews you read, or at least tick the Award button if you liked them. Also, please welcome new users! Do not let anybody stand aside!
Don will continue to develop new features, and Parfumo is far from being finished! A big project coming soon will be the update of the adding new perfumes process. I am really looking forward to it, and I hope you all will like it. It will be a unique concept that nobody else has. Enhancing this site step by step is Don's way to promote Parfumo.
I want Parfumo to grow because I want more nice people to share this hobby. But we are not in a hurry! We do not have to have a maximum amount of clicks in minimum time in order to get as much money out of some ads as possible. We are all volunteers and make our living elsewhere.
We cannot expect everybody defecting to Parfumo from the older sites and give up the environment they are used to - no matter how brilliant our additional features might be. And this is good as it is: we do some things differently, and so we can attract a different type of perfume lovers.
There is one big obstacle for a newcomer like Parfumo.net, and its name is Google: You need many clicks for your site to get top positions in the perfume search results – but if you are not listed in the top positions, you presumably do not get lots of clicks. I have become aware that Google is not at all supporting the public by providing access to interesting content – they are rather obstructing it, but this is a different story...
So, Parfumo users spreading the word to other passionate perfume lovers is all the more important!
At first, I want to thank Aromi for his thoughts and his sympathy for this project. I think it is important to consider once in a while where we are standing at the moment.
I really like the small community that has already come together at Parfumo.net. All take their hobby seriously, and one can only be impressed by the high quality of the perfume reviews that are posted here. And they are already many! We will soon have 5000 + well thought out reviews here, and considered this is a much smaller community than Parfumo.de, we are more active!
A big thank you to all of you who made this possible!
The main focus of Parfumo are the users' reviews. There will be more discussions in the forum as well, but as a prerequisite, Parfumo has to attract more people. I would really love to see the forum become more crowded (not necessarily overcrowded and chaotic as you might blame some other boards). So, please spread the word! Link Parfumo to your site if you have one, tell your friends, and place a link once in a while at your Facebook groups.
In addition to the logged in users, Parfumo.net has many visitors every day. We are having readers!
Until Parfumo.net will become bigger, we can enjoy the benefits of a smaller community. Whatever you do here – it will be noticed by the other users. (I started my perfume hobby on BN in 2008, and I was getting hardly any feedback for my activities there.)
Having said that – may I remind you once again to give each other feedback? Please answer to the reviews you read, or at least tick the Award button if you liked them. Also, please welcome new users! Do not let anybody stand aside!
Don will continue to develop new features, and Parfumo is far from being finished! A big project coming soon will be the update of the adding new perfumes process. I am really looking forward to it, and I hope you all will like it. It will be a unique concept that nobody else has. Enhancing this site step by step is Don's way to promote Parfumo.
I want Parfumo to grow because I want more nice people to share this hobby. But we are not in a hurry! We do not have to have a maximum amount of clicks in minimum time in order to get as much money out of some ads as possible. We are all volunteers and make our living elsewhere.
We cannot expect everybody defecting to Parfumo from the older sites and give up the environment they are used to - no matter how brilliant our additional features might be. And this is good as it is: we do some things differently, and so we can attract a different type of perfume lovers.
There is one big obstacle for a newcomer like Parfumo.net, and its name is Google: You need many clicks for your site to get top positions in the perfume search results – but if you are not listed in the top positions, you presumably do not get lots of clicks. I have become aware that Google is not at all supporting the public by providing access to interesting content – they are rather obstructing it, but this is a different story...
So, Parfumo users spreading the word to other passionate perfume lovers is all the more important!