Campaign to help revive this site and its members

[Kbabiasz]

Started this on DakotaUSA.com so this is the second site im doing this for

I am going to start going through the 20 pages 500+ member list and contacting people from start to finish. Hopefully reviving some old members since i have heard membership is dropping. Just another way for me to help out

I was wondering if mods or site admin or some one could get me a list of all current members in either a word or excel format(preferably excel) if possible, if not no biggie. AND i was wondering if there was a way to view the member list by last login in date or have it added. And that way i wont be bothering the active members with stuff they already know

Im going to mention the national meet and the possible revival of the RT rumble
Is there anything else i should mention?

[hskr]

Started this on DakotaUSA.com so this is the second site im doing this for

I am going to start going through the 20 pages 500+ member list and contacting people from start to finish. Hopefully reviving some old members since i have heard membership is dropping. Just another way for me to help out

I was wondering if mods or site admin or some one could get me a list of all current members in either a word or excel format(preferably excel) if possible, if not no biggie. AND i was wondering if there was a way to view the member list by last login in date or have it added. And that way i wont be bothering the active members with stuff they already know

Im going to mention the national meet and the possible revival of the RT rumble
Is there anything else i should mention?


This forum as it sits is pretty new, as in just a few months old, so you won't have much luck finding too many inactive members on here. And good luck getting a list of DRTC members with contact info. That's called privacy act information and wouldn't be legal for the DRTC to give it to you.

[tcuillier]

Started this on DakotaUSA.com so this is the second site im doing this for

I am going to start going through the 20 pages 500+ member list and contacting people from start to finish. Hopefully reviving some old members since i have heard membership is dropping. Just another way for me to help out

I was wondering if mods or site admin or some one could get me a list of all current members in either a word or excel format(preferably excel) if possible, if not no biggie. AND i was wondering if there was a way to view the member list by last login in date or have it added. And that way i wont be bothering the active members with stuff they already know

Im going to mention the national meet and the possible revival of the RT rumble
Is there anything else i should mention?

I applaud your enthusiasm and appreciate your offer to help pump up membership. That's exactly the kind of energy this club needs.

Tom

[Kbabiasz]

This forum as it sits is pretty new, as in just a few months old, so you won't have much luck finding too many inactive members on here. And good luck getting a list of DRTC members with contact info. That's called privacy act information and wouldn't be legal for the DRTC to give it to you.

Just going off of info i have been given and what has been discussed already. And i never asked for contact info, i just asked for a list. And as for inactive people. There is a 20 page member list. 10 of those 20 pages are members with 5 or less posts. Just saying, it wouldn't hurt to try and get them to be more active

[Kbabiasz]

And i noticed that this site was made this year, was there an older site before it? and is it still around?

[RagingRedR/T]

I think the old site got exploded... aka this one took its place and the old was deleted. Perhaps one of the admins has a copy of the old web on their personal computer.

[Kbabiasz]

I think the old site got exploded... aka this one took its place and the old was deleted. Perhaps one of the admins has a copy of the old web on their personal computer.


If the old site existed i would carry on over to there to get info on former members to try and contact them to see if they would come back here and sign up

[hskr]

I'm not so sure if it's an inactivity thing with some of the older nonposting members as it is people who have sold their trucks and carried on. What we really need is new members. Those who have bought their trucks used from someone else. I can't count the number of R/T's I've left note on that never contacted me, and there have been a few owners I've talked to in person who had no interest in joining any type of club or message board. It was just a truck they drove to get to and from work.

[Kbabiasz]

I'm not so sure if it's an inactivity thing with some of the older nonposting members as it is people who have sold their trucks and carried on. What we really need is new members. Those who have bought their trucks used from someone else. I can't count the number of R/T's I've left note on that never contacted me, and there have been a few owners I've talked to in person who had no interest in joining any type of club or message board. It was just a truck they drove to get to and from work.

Im gonna try anyway. Start with the people that are here, and then move outward from there. People signed up for a reason.

[BTLFED R/T]

Basically, before this site, there was the Yahoogroup mailing list, Delphi, and the handful of other Dakota sites. The only official club site was Yahoogroups. We have all info on every past member, but we can't give that out.

[SinCity R/T]

vBulletin is capable of sending out mass e-mails to forum users, and has many ways of sorting out your intended audience (ie: last login date). The DRTC Exec Board has the capability of doing this in one fell swoop if they choose without giving out any user data to third parties.

The old forum was not deleted from this website, but based on the user list that has been built up since vBulletin came online, I think we have almost all of the old bases covered - in fact, a LOT of older members have popped in to say hi.

[Kbabiasz]

Like i said on DakUSA

Your right about the mass email thing, but when you send out a message like that it has no personality to it. Its not personal. I would be more willing to respond to a personal Email sent out by a site then to a mass email that i know is sent out to a lot of people. But thats just my opinion. I use to get messages like that from dak-dur(i think it was that site) and 90% of the time, i ignored them

[BTLFED R/T]

Like i said on DakUSA

Your right about the mass email thing, but when you send out a message like that it has no personality to it. Its not personal. I would be more willing to respond to a personal Email sent out by a site then to a mass email that i know is sent out to a lot of people. But thats just my opinion. I use to get messages like that from dak-dur(i think it was that site) and 90% of the time, i ignored them

I agree!

[Kbabiasz]

You have to make a mass email appeal to the people you are sending it to. It should include site updates, the national meet, the possible comeback of the Rt Rumble and or a dodge magazine, future updates. Also it should include questions like how are you, how is your truck. State that the person has not logged in, in a while and ask why.

Theres a lot to be put into making a mass email as personal as possible


Also with mass email....If you send out a mass email to your 500+ member base and former members from the previous sites, what happens when a couple hundred to a couple thousand people decide to email you back with comments, questions, suggestions or just general feedback on where they are in life and their trucks??

You HAVE to respond to those emails otherwise people will just ignore the messages that are sent to them. And responding to all those emails would take time and a lot of effort on the sites part.

I might not be able to help with this, cuz like its been said, i am a third party. But this is all just another idea created by a response that was posted

[SinCity R/T]

Like i said on DakUSA

Your right about the mass email thing, but when you send out a message like that it has no personality to it. Its not personal. I would be more willing to respond to a personal Email sent out by a site then to a mass email that i know is sent out to a lot of people. But thats just my opinion. I use to get messages like that from dak-dur(i think it was that site) and 90% of the time, i ignored them

Websites owned by the autoforums corporation send out "we miss you!" messages all the time - I've never tried sending that type of e-mail before.

I have sent admin mass e-mails in the past to people who have opted to receive them, but they're generally done to announce new website features or other special events.

[Kbabiasz]

Ill help any way i can