How do you spell success?

How do you spell success?

Is it spelled F - O - R - U - M,  or is it spelled S - A - L - E - S ?

That depends on many things.

Maybe you should make a more specific question.

Okay.  How does a commercial web site mesure it's success?  Does it do it with or without a forum for it's customers?  And does the forum generate repeat sales, or build trust to new customers so that they do buy for the first time?

That depends on what kind of site you have.

If you're selling stuff, then obviously it's S - A - L - E - S.

If you're a community, then obviously it's F - O - R - U - M.

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I think a forum is needed when the store has enough customers to make it active.

Success is not necesery the sales that an ecommerce site produces. That's the first step.

The second is to keep the customer buying from you, and in all terms this is what a company should focus. Because someone that we have allready selled something, know us, trust us, so it would be better to focus on how to sell this client something, instead of searching for new clients.

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Crystal, typical teenage answer.   

Nikolas, how right you are.  But, do you think, having a forum adds value to the site?  Hypothetically, if you have two equal sites, save one has a community forum; which do you think consistently achieves a higher rating from its sales and consumers?

I believe the former site would be the answer in my honest opinion.

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A forum would be an advantage only if :

1) It is a nice sub site (no default themed forum)

2) Has activity.

I will stick on the second one. Say that you are an online buyer. You visit a website to get information on a particular product. If this site has a forum, you will go there to check the feedback from other clients. This is something that every body will do.

Now let's say that before visiting the forum, everything you saw in the site convised you to buy, what happens if the forum has a total of 20 posts? Or what happens if the forum has a default theme phpBB?

Recently I faced the exact situation I descrive here and finally I didn't bought anything even that the shop and the product looked lot prommising.

Hey Red Matrix, you gonna continue being an ***? 'Cause this **** isn't funny, and I don't think Nik wants a fight on his forums.

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And I also don't like bad words in your posts.

I've edited your post. Do not use bad language in your posts

hmm, one more outburst out of Red Matrix or Crystal and i might have to lock this topic :S calm down guys.. age doesnt matter here

i guess forum is the success if you get more people you can divert their mind in anyway you want ,what you think??

A forum is success when it continues to grow and attract new members and when the members can share information and if they disagree are able to agree to disagree and not lower the forum and themselves with personal attacks. 

I have seen some sites where the main intent was to sell something, yet the forum had the spotlight. Their sales material was quite weak and made it even hard to distinguish that their main point was not the forums. Commercial sites with forums have to continue all the tried and true methods to make the sale and allow the forums to supplement and not become their marketing strategy.

I would suppose that success would be determined by whether or not the forum or the sales met and surpassed the original goals set for them.

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