Greetings IH,
I'm currently working on https://indiestack.org/ which is a community for independent entrepreneurs. At some point, I want to make it a paid membership. Everyone who signs up before moving to a paid subscriptions gets free membership, as a thank you for the early support.
The problem I'm having is, when to make it paid? A community is interesting in that people won't want to join, let alone pay, without some action inside the community. When do you start charging? 100 users? X amount of posts per day?
If you believe in your idea, concentrate on creating a community. When you have a lot of people, then you can monetize it:-)
I think X number of posts per day is a better way. I am making a tool for artists and I had the same confusion. But I have also decided that I will let users to send only x number of requests per day and after that they have to pay. I haven't implemented it yet, it is in early beta version, but I will do it in next release. http://wpdemo.justgreen.in/as/home.php
This is a cool idea! Yeah agreed, I might need to do that. The problem I'm having is users are signing up, but no ones posting!
I think people are signing up to try new things. They will only start posting on something, when they will see that the post will generate some value to them.
I can post all day with amazing threads, and I’ve posted some interesting threads already, but no ones replying. Perhaps they aren’t as good enough.
Are you promoting on other social platforms as well? Because in the time like this it is necessary to promote everywhere. People will start posting slowly.
Only twitter at the moment. Yeah you’re right, that’s a good idea which I haven’t tried just yet!