Feedback Needed: College Confidential Premium Subscription

DadOfJerseyGirl
Fri, 02 Aug 2024 15:19:42 +0000

@CC_Mike,

Do you have an update regarding this premium subscription proposal? Just curious to know what’s next with this.

Also, with regards to:

CC_Mike:

cinnamon1212:

Advertising isn’t enough? Surely our demographic (some proportion wealthy, some proportion young adult) is valuable to advertisers?

It really isn’t at our traffic levels.

It seems one of the challenges is that the site isn’t “sticky” for a lot of posters. They come post a chance me thread or ask other questions, and when they’re done getting answers they move on. I thought of two things that might help increase “stickiness” and drive more traffic to this site:

1. Partner with colleges (at least the popular ones most commonly cited on CC) to host a prospective students’ information and Q&A thread. Similar to AMA but it can be open for months. College reps can post updates throughout the admission cycle, including announcing when decisions will be released.

2. There are college-specific parent groups on Facebook to support parents of college students. Why not host such groups here on CC? I know a lot of people don’t use FB anymore and some have reluctantly stayed on or joined only to be part of these groups. We could provide them a better experience here.