BuzzerBeater Forums

My name is BB-Mark, and I’m one of the founders of BuzzerBeater. I really wanted to make an effort to be more active in some of the national forums. I was born and raised in Toronto (as many of you know), so I am very excited to be the BB liaison to our Canadian community. If you don't consider Toronto to be a real part of Canada, go talk to BB-Sascha, our resident Ottawan, instead. Also, piss off :-). I’ve created this sticky thread to better communicate with you guys as an official BB liaison to Canada, and I will try to check and respond to it often.

We really feel that the bigger our community, the better the experience is for all of our users. I would like to ask for your help expanding our Canadian community. There are two ideas I wanted to put to the community:
- If there are any big basketball or sports forums you know about or in which you are active, we would love to have a presence on those forums. If anybody knows some places that we should contact (or even better, runs one of these sites and wants to make an exchange), do let me know. Recently, we arranged for a news post and banner ad exchange with a Lithuanian forum, and they established a BuzzerBeater folder on their site for us – we got over 500 users in the first week as a result!
- We have also been asked to do interviews with the local media, and we’re more than happy to have the publicity. If you have any contacts at local or national newspapers, magazines, or other media, we are certainly free for an interview if they want to do a piece on us.
- If you have any creative ideas for things we may do, I’m open to suggestions!

If there are any complaints specific to Canada, please do let me know. For example, we recently found that people in Serbia were not able to use our PayPal system to purchase the Supporter package.

Finally, we have had a couple complaints about the banner ads shown on the site. These ads are provided by a banner ad network, and in most countries it is very difficult to control whether the ads that are shown are appropriate for our audience. If anybody knows of a company that wants to advertise on BuzzerBeater, we'll gladly pay you a commission on anybody you find that can help us serve better and more targeted banner ads.

Thanks for your help with this. I would love to see the see Canadian community grow to be one of our core groups!

Thanks so much! I'll look into it. You don't happen to have any contacts at SportingNews, do you?
Cheers!

Hi everyone,

I'd like to ask for someone to help out with the marketing in Canada... I'm trying to juggle a dozen countries, and I could certainly use the help growing our community.

In some other countries, we've appointed an official Marketing Associate to help us draw more users into the game and draw in some more revenue -- they contact sites on our behalf, try to set up link and banner exchanges with other sites and communities, and look for other groups who would like to buy our ad space or become a sponsor of our game (for all users or just for Canada).

This has turned out to be very successful in some cases, and we will gladly offer a commission for all banner sales (and perhaps even some financial compensation for bringing in users or Supporters to the game). if anyone is interested, please do let me know!

Thanks for your help. I've seen some very dedicated people in this community, and I would very much appreciate it if there is anyone (or a few people!) who are willing to help out directly.

Take care,
Mark

Last edited by BB-Mark at 5/21/2008 4:55:05 PM

Im willing to help out. I dont have any fancy comp or internet skills but I recently got laid off and am looking for something to fill in a bit of time. Anything (almost) let me know