Can’t do this anymore
Sunday, August 9, 2009 19:02I honestly don’t know if I can run Kenny Chesney Source any longer. Kenny is my all time favorite singer and I love his music, but…. I don’t know. I’ve tried so many things to get more visitors and to people more involved with the site, but nothing has worked. I know there are tons of Kenny fans out there because Kenny Chesney has sole more concert tickets in the past couple of years than any other artist out there. So I know Kenny has millions of fans out there. There is this one Kenny Chesney site out there that, in my opinion, isn’t as good, but it gets all the visitors. My site has over 30,000+ photos in the gallery, tons of Kenny info, a streaming media site, a forum, etc. and that other one doesn’t even have 200 photos in the gallery and doesn’t have as many videos as my site either. The site has a really, really active forum, but for some reason I can’t even get 5 visitors. I’ve tried a forum before and it didn’t work out and I’m trying it again and it’s not working again. It just makes me so mad and aggravated that I can’t seem to get more traffic to my site. I’m not the type of person to try and compete with other fan sites because we want to support them and we don’t make sites to compete, but it really isn’t much fun if you don’t get visitors and you don’t get any interaction. This just really puts me in a bad mood. I never have any desire to update the site and I just don’t ever feel like working on it. But I don’t want to close the site or adopt it out. This was my very first site and I love to to death and I can’t imagine closing it or somebody else running it. I just don’t know what to do. Should I give it up, close it, or try and get back into running it. I’ve been in this situation 2 times before, but I still just can’t make up my mind. What do you guys think?
Hunter says:
August 10th, 2009 at 4:00 am
Hey Eric,
Wow. Read this RIGHT AFTER I applied for affiliation on the Kenny site. Haha.
But I totally know what you mean about not having the fanbase visit a fansite regularly. I’ve even posted my Sara site within the fanclub and they still don’t really visit. And they are supposed to be the “hardcore” fans.
And even the ones that do visit . . . they DON’T interact! No comments, no fanlisting submissions . . . NOTHING. So, I really don’t have an answer.
But I’ve realized that I love Sara to death and that I’m really only doing that site for her. Even if one person views it each day and LOVES it, then my purpose is served.
Sure! It’d be nice to rank Top 10 in Google. Or have thousands of hits a day. Or have tons of visitor interaction. But I’ve had three Sara sites in all, with this current one being the third. When I stopped the first two, I said to myself, “That ain’t ever happenin’ again.” But yet I still created more, so I just figured to keep on maintaining it even if I was the only one to enjoy it. Haha.
Hope this helps =)
Hayley says:
August 11th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Hi Eric!
How about putting it on open hiatus? Don’t make any rushed decisions as you may regret it.Also,maybe try getting the other, not as good, Kenny site as affiliate? Then their visitors may visit yours? And maybe affiliate with more music related sites?
Has Kenny got any twitter/facebook/myspace fan accounts? Maybe promoteon there?
Also, ask on the site what people want to see….or maybe do a competition giveaway or something?
Just trying to give ideas!