Some months ago we asked the members of this forum to review our new project www.coffeefun.com and we also were looking for promotion ideas, because it was very difficult to promote a new forum. Now, we can say with certainty that the forum is very successful and all your help and advice were very helpful!

We changed the general idea of this forum. Now it sounds like “Coffee for talking”. It means you can earn coffee cents while talking in the forum and exchange these cents for any coffee related products from our store www.1-800-espresso.com This is why we created new design for forum.

We would like to know your opinion about this idea with coffee cents and about our new design.

Btw, CoffeeFun was only our first step. Some weeks ago we started another forum www.vitatalk.com, based on the same idea – earning vita cents while talking about health. We hope it will be successful as well, but any your comments and criticism as to our projects will be greatly appreciated.

I think we've reviewed http://www.1-800-espresso.com in the past and imo this is one of the better niche e-commerce sites I have seen. The forum looks good too, though you have some potential to take it to the next level by adding custom icons instead of the defaults.

The VitaTalk forum is a more basic design that looks a little too much like the default install.

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Thank you! And we agree that we really should add custom icons. We are going to improve designs some time later.

Our members usually get 25 cents for new topics and 10 cents for replies, and this way they can get discounts for the products we sell - their favorite coffee or nutritional supplements etc.

Do you think these sums are enough?

I wonder why nobody replied to this topic.
Is it useless using incentives on forums? Are these 10 or 25 cents too little to earn good discounts for our products? Is the idea bad at all?

no , i think is a great idea...
and no , is not too little to earn ...

after all is only a message

i've seen forums where one message means 3 cents ... ;-)

too bad that you're in the us ... :-P

Just a few words to sum up the discussion.

It’s been about a month or two since we started this strategy and the results are very good. We saw many forums using incentives which could be redeemed for goods or small gifts. Most people say these 10 or 15 cents will not make them richer, but they feel richer and they like friendly chat and try to post more.

We were glad to receive any your comments and opinions and will be happy to know more from you in future You are welcome to our forums www.CoffeeFun.com and www.VitaTalk.com !