customer acquisition

[Quixilated]

I have reservations about that particular path. In that scenario, we would need the teachers to make it clear to their students that this is not a “help me with my homework” forum nor a free tutoring service.  The students would need to post valid critique in exchange for posting their own poems.  Also, we don’t work on a deadline.  The critique offered is optional and offered at the pace of the members who give it. We do not have the manpower or setup to be a tutoring service. Our members (and mods) are not paid nor required to critique the poems posted here.  The students and teachers would need to understand that poems might not recieve critique in any reliable time table and might not receive critique at all. We used to frequently have students post a poem and say “it’s due on Monday, help me fix my poem!” without having offered critique and without the intention of sticking around after that one assignment. A transient, labor-intensive member who only wants help and then is gone, might not help the site in the long run. That kind of traffic might exhaust our more long term members, especially if the students are only using us for a one-and-done assignment. I would rather find a way to attract people who are trying to do poetry as a long-term personal choice and not as a one-semester assignment. (However, the poetry teachers themselves would probably make fantastic members.)