AUGD: 20K visitors on a UG site? Only from a nation of 1.3 billion...
AUGD: 20K visitors on a UG site? Only from a nation of 1.3 billion...
- Subject: AUGD: 20K visitors on a UG site? Only from a nation of 1.3 billion...
- From: David Feng <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:01:46 +0800
The funny thing about the Chinese version of the Beijing Macintosh
User Group's website, www.beimac.cn, is that it has two purposes...
1. to inform visitors about the Mac user group in Chinese; and
2. to serve as a mandarin Chinese news hub.
Purpose number two is totally, totally redundant and, I know, should
have been dumped before the dinosaurs came out, except for the fact
that...
1. China and the whole Greater China area are pretty short on Chinese
Mac news sites, with a majority of them being forums instead;
2. We're in a league of our own. This is where my knowledge in the
tongues of Thurgau (German), Toulouse (French), Torino (Italian), and
maybe bits of Tokyo (Japanese) and Taegu (Korean), actually helps me
to translate stuff so that people in Tianjin (Chinese), as well as
our fellow Mac-citizens in Taipei across the Straits, and elsewhere
in the nation of 1.3 billion and counting, can understand.
And how do we get from zero to 200,000 visitors from Nov 7, 2003
through to Jan 18, 2007?
1. Go after what they want. Exclusive reports, live coverage, maybe a
little grapevine stuff (although I see your frowns...)
2. Share the wealth. Partner up with other sites in your region.
Never go it alone.
3. Have unique advantages. Learn a unique language and do
translations nobody else could. The stuff that sets you apart from
others.
4. Pure, wild luck. Start a MUG somewhere where there's never been a
MUG before (in a different country).
5. Just stick with the site. Never give the whole thing up.
From the capital of 1.3 billion: bringing more and more Mac
knowledge, Wissenschaft, zhishi (Chinese) to the masses...
Just when we're turning five...
David Feng
BeiMac, Beijing
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