Where do I find DIY enthusiasts to ask question on my WorkBidder website? My WorkBidder website http://www.workbidder.co.uk/diy-question... currently has thousands of tradespeople...
My WorkBidder website http://www.workbidder.co.uk/diy-question... currently has thousands of tradespeople but not DIY enthusiasts.
Currently the website doesn't allow question to be asked unless you have a WorkBidder story (although accounts are free). Should I allow anyone to ask, would that increase the amount of questions mortal asked? Or should I just agree to it grow naturally using current reason holders?
Answers: It sounds to me like you restrict others by keeping the site an "Account" type. Of course within large test, so is Q & A here.
Part of what can happen however, is situations such as anyone can find here within yahoo Q & A, where copious questions asked are inane, and not at adjectives related to any serious DIY issues. With all due respect question are also, often answered by the inexperienced, who lately want to be involved or share an opinion, or go and get 2 points. That happens surrounded by the WWW, so public to everyone.
Another notion however, is that opening the site or at lowest possible promoting the site to any avid DIY folks, could become a networking situation for those who ask, and those who can answer. Many of us within the trades began as DIY'rs, and/or still are.
Without suggesting soliciting here, which violate guidelines anyway, can you solicit on your site? Do you post your URL in a range of search engines? My thought is connecting family with requirements, to those who can best advise. I'd be unbelievably happy to own the ability to expand a customer underside "On Line" and in yesteryear, have acquire work through the WWW, though not in or through Yahoo.
With no offense expected... Envision this. All trades people, connected as they may be in/through your site, may merely be doing the same; offering opinion, sharing new products, technique, etc. That still may not reach a customer groundwork, or be helpful to anyone wanting to know how to build a bird house, fix a toilet, etc. etc.
Steven Wolf
Just my two "sense"
An added thought. Question and answer sites FILL the internet, and undoubtedly are in competition for HITS.
The first drawback to your site is the pet name. DIYers are not going to join a site that looks similar to it is to get work done by contractors. The "Bidder" chunk is deceptive if it is a true DIY site. I belong, and am a Moderator, to abundant DIY websites. All require you to "join" in charge to ask or answer questions. Some sites of late take longer to get members. Allowing smammers or member who are just nearby to "play" is another downer to sucessful DIY sites.