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I'm sure the majority of you have seen the news thread about the amazing growth in Hong Kong. I believe all of BB should give them a round of applause for their great work of 350% growth in two weeks. Now this brings the question up of why the US cant experience at least 100% growth and double our user base. According to the most recent Nielsen ratings (Which was for the week of April 5th) the number one watched program on Broadcast TV was the NCAA Basketball Championships with over 23 million viewers yet our current BB community sits just under four thousand users. There is no reason why by the end of this season we should not be breaking five thousand members and I think we should set it as our mission to catch the current top user bases by the end of Season 13. If each USA manager makes it a point to either invite one friend, make a short post on the forums they read, or putting it in their Facebook/Twitter status we will see an influx of new managers.

Now the first step is to get them in the door, there is a great FAQ made in the help forum by NakerVirus and many managers that are willing to lend their advice but we first need to entice people to sign up for Buzzerbeater.

What I want to hear from the rest of the community is how have you been successful in getting new members to join Buzzerbeater and what ideas do you have that could help us catch the biggest user bases.

I hope all of you are as motivated as I am to help BB USA grow to be the biggest user base in BuzzerBeater.

Fatcurry is 100% right on the money. More poeple make games more fun, it's like a vicious circle. If you don't have players, the game isn't fun. If the game isn't fun, you can't get players. However, once the game starts to grow, it should be the opposite effect, the game is fun therefore people want to play.


My experience with this game. I started playing in November. Bfiddy told me about it. He found out through 2-3 other people that we learned had been playing this game for a while. As soon as I joined, I forced another friend to play (then he drafted a broken player and we were all mad cuz he didn't even care) and then I got 2 more friends to join within 1-2 months. They've already started recruited other friends to this game. People who are invited to this game aren't the ones leaving, the ones leaving are the ones stumbling across this website randomly, or the ones who aren't good.

Like I've been saying all along, community fosters growth. You can form your own community with your friends whether real life friends or digital friends that only exist via cyberspace (the ones that told me about this game). And then take it upon yourself to teach the basics to people. I skype/msn/phone call/text my friends and help them learn the game as I'm leaning it form those that recruited me. The exciting thing for me and the federation I'm in is just to see us starting to excel and do really well because we're all helping/giving advice. Again, the community factor.

So basically, invite a friend, then teach them! if you don't know, ask somebody who has been playing longer! If somebody rejects you, ask somebody else. Probably not the best idea to ask somebody in your own league that is trying to beat you though ;) unless they're nice. I spent the season in d5 trying to give advice to my opponents and they didn't listen, but whatever.

One suggestion I received from my buddy Knicktard (23122) is that one way to increase retention would be to expand on the Mentor thread and have mentors automatically assigned to a new player from higher leagues. Obviously not everyone would want to be a mentor so a system would have to be set up to fit everyones needs but having mentors automatically assigned instead of saying "Here's the Manual, Here's the FAQ" would increase interaction between players and hopefully keep more managers around. Its a similar idea to how companies assign mentors for new hires or fraternities assign big brothers.

Last edited by FatCurry at 4/21/2010 3:17:33 PM

true but 1/3 of the teams that join who play is obviously better than no one joining. I would love to help expand the amount of u.s. bb players. What can i do besides telling friends and posting in forums? Is there any other way to attract players?

Magnets.

I'd like to see someone make a flier that we can post at colleges or game shops.

You do seem to have some photoshop skills after using Popcorn to make your logo.....