Does Habbox really need a 'Marketing Manager'?

[Cerys]

Ayeee I heard that too

I think if his ideas are good you can't really afford to ignore them unless your dept is either a) running well already or b) you have your own good ideas
Which recently on habbox both of those seem to be hard to come across haha

[Kyle]

If help is being refused there has to be a reason for it. Perhaps managers don't want somebody who has no idea how a department is run to be meddling in their business?

[lawrawrrr]

As for the box the reason we're removing Habbo references is most people don't want HABBOX NEWSLETTER LOOK AT THIS HABBO EVENT AND HABBO IMAGE in their email inbox. We'll talk about events and things we've been up to you and are doing without using direct screenshots or big word references to Habbo itself so people have it on their phones and things and don't have to worry about it popping up - therefore more likely to subscribe!

For example, we can say "It's August and that can only mean one thing! The Summer Spectacular is back and this year, we're giving away a top prize of ____c!!"

Or, last month we had a fun week of content-related events for our annual content week. All our members got to go back to university! You can still see what was available here *link* - we'd love to hear your feedback!"

With images that aren't screenshots (easy).


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[Samantha]

If help is being refused there has to be a reason for it. Perhaps managers don't want somebody who has no idea how a department is run to be meddling in their business?

Well technically he isn't meddling in anyone's business or department, if managers just listen to him they would understand that to a point. He's there to give ideas, which managers can look into more or decide against them. As far as I'm aware, the 'idea' he suggested for competitions was to have more titles that are clickbait so members will want to enter them more, I can see that that advice wasn't taken, but I had no idea they refused his help/ideas. I rarely enter competitions, as I used to look forward to new ones being posted every day instead of every week like it is now (for example, there's 2 running now until the end of the month).

On the other hand, I haven't refused Ross' help and he's been great with keeping me in the know in terms of streamlining the registration form. I actually went to him with my ideas (bringing the community tasks back, ideas to get more activity etc.) and it was good having someone who could give an 'outside' point of view on the ideas before they were made live.

[lemons]

there is no way i am signing up to this new version of the box i would rather have the old interactive magazine one that had lots of colourful habbo's plastered all over it! i don't get why habbox is trying to retain an older audience because it's clear that all other fansites which are successful are full of teens and younger peeps and not people who don't even play habbo

who even reads email newsletters from any website because 95% of the time i definitely don't and if i get too many i unsubscribe to them

[FlyingJesus]

He's there to give ideas, which managers can look into more or decide against them.

Could he not use the feedback section like everyone else

[Empired]

Maybe I'm missing the point here but how is The Box helping? Why are we encouraging users who already are in it for the long haul to stick around? Because in my mind they're doing that with or without The Box, and it might be a fun thing to add but is that really the main priority now? Because that just looks like procrastination to me. And there's no way it's going to appeal to new members because it's a habbox only thing? I just don't understand it.

So my two questions are: what is being done (or planned but not yet carried out as it has been a short amount of time and I understand things may not have been implemented yet) to first raise Habbox's profile among Habbos who don't use/have never heard of the site, and then what's being done to encourage them to stick around and keep coming back?

I'm sorry, I really didn't mean for this to be overly critical and this isn't me like hiding criticism under questions, I really would be grateful for some answers.

[Inseriousity.]

Don't think there's a need for a marketing manager when there are roles already in place who should be doing that job but at the same time, even if I would agree with the idea that the method of going for older members seems a bit moot, at least someone's doing something. My aunty does SEO as her job so I know from her babbling that there can be some improvement for websites if they use social media/search engines more wisely and perhaps that role is something that wouldn't fit under the AGM responsibilities and requires someone seperate even if I'm not 100% convinced that SEO is as good as they make out (don't tell my aunty lol she'd kill me)*.

*I mention this because it looked from the announcement that this was also a part of the role but it looks like it's branched out into AGM duties as well.

[FlyingJesus]

As far as I'm aware the newsletter thing isn't JUST being sent to the oldies who've signed up to it but also (and in fact, primarily) to email addresses that used to be active here but haven't been for X amount of time, so really it's more about drawing in people who already have/had some interest here but might have forgotten about Hx or something. No idea whether it'll work or not but that's the idea as I understand it rather than being a feature for people who are already around

[Empired]

As far as I'm aware the newsletter thing isn't JUST being sent to the oldies who've signed up to it but also (and in fact, primarily) to email addresses that used to be active here but haven't been for X amount of time, so really it's more about drawing in people who already have/had some interest here but might have forgotten about Hx or something. No idea whether it'll work or not but that's the idea as I understand it rather than being a feature for people who are already around

Oh I didn't realise that at all. Are emails getting sent to addresses that users used to sign up to here with then?