Looking for discussion forum sponsors

Well, maybe I should try something different.

I want to get the discussion forums really moving. But I guess I need some people to help me out with this by being a regular anchor point for each of the forums. So here's what I would like to do:

I would like to have a volunteer for each of the discussion forums who has a keen interest in that particular topic. I would like this person to be interested enough to start discussions and keep them ongoing, which means taking the time and putting the effort into such an endeavor. In other words, I want them to basically sponsor the forum by being THE main presence there.

In return, I will let them create their own advertising post for their own business/website, which I will stick at the top of the forum and highlight to catch attention.

If more than one person volunteers for any one forum, I will flip a coin to pick one of them to be the sponsoring. Or if I think it warrants it, I may decide to have more than one sponsor for the forum.

How does this sound?

Webslave,

If you want to use my help I would like to volunteer for the General Business Discussion forum. One way or the other I spend a lot of my time there.

Regards.

Well, I was hoping that this would provide incentive for people to get over to the ANIMAL discussion forums, but this might not be a bad idea. You certainly have enough "time on the field" to be a candidate.....

Thanks.

rich if you need help in the leopard gecko forum or boa forum i would be willing to help....

Rich-

I would be happy to help out on the Gecko or Leopard Gecko forumes. Just let me know!

I missed it!! I'd love to donate some time to this site!!! I'd be more than happy to help in any area you would like. I've got 15+ years in the business, and 20+ in the hobby. I feel I could provide you w/ an adequate list of personal references if need be. My passion is for all Reptiles but most of my experience is w/ various Pythons, Boas, Colubrids. Thanks for considering!!

OK, this is more like it!

I need people who will help get some discussions going in those dormant forums that people can't seem to find. What I am offering is to provide a fixed hilighted link at the top of the forum to be an advertising link to your business/website in return for help in this area.

I don't want this to be overkill, but I think at least two sponsors would be a good start, even if those two only talk among themselves in the particular forum they are in charge of. At least that should start the spark to get things running at a better clip then I have seen in the past.

Also along these lines, I would like to see the chat room utilized more fully as well. There is a separate chat room dedicated to each of the discussion forums, so you would be free to schedule a chat any time that would suit you and the majority of people frequenting YOUR forum.

If I can get my programmer to figure out a way to put an actual 120x60 banner graphic in the header of the forum, I will offer that as well, but please don't hold me to that one quite yet. My programmer has MANY times pulled me down to earth when something I wanted would be a strain on the system.

So, what do you say? Does this sound like a fair trade? Should I post some sort of notice about this offering in ALL the discussion forums to get attention, or should I just resign myself to having to post this on the BOI to get any attention?

Or if you know of someone with expertise in some particular forums, please let them know about this offering. Of course, you are welcome to be a sponsor to more than one forum, since at this point I doubt it would tax anyone severely to do that.

Thanks.

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Rich
I would also like to help , in the invertebrate section cause those are my alley. I breed a lot of them and I thoroughly enjoy them.
Hell I can remember driving across alligator alley from Naples to Hollywood to sell baby red rump tarantulas to Strictly on the day before hurricane Andrew.

Is there a feeder forum? OR would that be in the feed,caging, etc forum? Feeders happen to be one of my biggest specialties, especially the rodent variety, so I would love to work on that, if I knew which was the appropriate forum, otherwise I'd be very happy to be the "Talkative" one on the kingsnakes forum. Now that I have 6 cal kings, 1 eastern, 2 outerbanks, 1 pyro, and 4 blotched, I'm starting to feel a lot of topics coming up. Anyway, I will do what I can there if you would like. Come the end of may I'll be around an awful lot as I go into my yearly 9 week vacation! (The only reason teachers actually RETURN to teaching.... they get a big chance to recharge their batteries)

Anyway, I would love to do what I can with feeders or with kingsnakes.

And I'll take you up on the advertisement of my site... once I make it!