Hi Lee & Keith,
first of all big thank you and cheers to both of you. You do and have done an amazing job for an extremely long time with this forum. I can totally understand your reasons about the price drab but I think this is a good time to change some things.
First of all I think the price draw is great and should stay in one or another way. Second I think this could be the time to rethink things and restructure some things. Why? Because B&O changed, people on the forum changed and as you said things for yourself changed. Perhaps this could be the time for Beoworld 3.0? I mean the current Beoworld is amazing but perhaps people want something different.
These are things I could think about (just some brainstorming).
- General things
- Where will the forum be hosted in future?
- How much will this cost
- What will be the core system of the forum? WordPress etc.
- Manpower
- Is there enough admins to handle everything?
- Can some people help with certain things without full admin rights?
- Financing the forum
- Are the current levels of membership the right ones?
- What differentiates these levels?
- level cost – will more people be willing to join the silver level if it is cheaper?
- Ads on the page?
- Perhaps bronze level will have ads on the page and all other levels only the sponsor and no ads?
- sponsorships
- b&o affiliate store? If members buy from a Beoworld affiliate store (or b&o partner store) they get a free gold membership?
- Are the current levels of membership the right ones?
- Content
- What content do people expect?
- new categories/structure for the forum? Something Like Home Automation
- Perhaps there is a differentiation between old and new b&o stuff?
These are just the 2 thoughts I had while walking the baby. I think in general the one or other poll would help to get numbers behind those questions.
In general I thing neither you or Keith should be paying a cent for this page as you donate us all so much of your free time. Thanks for your amazing work!