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Hi all!

A buddy of mine and I have been building an online community site which helps people make everyday decisions with confidence.

Before we can launch the full site we need to seed the database with some questions. It would be a bit dull if on launch day the site was empty! To do this we are running a pre-launch competition to collect questions, giving away iTunes and a PS3 in the process... 

If you have a few minutes to spare, can you check out the pre-launch competition site? I would really appreciate if you can register (its FREE!), post a question and let me know what you think...

The link is: http://www.letsdecide.com

Thanks for your time.

Hey thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate you having a go at the website and bothering to tell me what you think!

We went for the SitePal thing because we were getting really high bounce rates on the original home page - lots of text and all that... Plus it turns out that the concept is not immediately obvious (early on people were posting very open questions not really switching on to the fact that this is a multiple-choice, poll-type Q&A thing). Things definitely improved with the SitePal though I absolutely take your point about having to `localize` - easy enough for us to pick up visitor`s IP address and deliver the `big speech` in a more acceptable accent. And its great that you like the script, we did really work on it!

Any ideas on how best to spread the word as it were? We`re getting a few registrations a day but need to up that to about 20...

Thanks,
ogibat

Thanks again, another fine piece of advice! We`re looking at how to bring the site proposition to life on the landing page... without using too many words!

I wish a few other people chipped in with some advice too!

From a functional/usability standpoint it was very easy to navigate and use.

I also have my volume on mute, so did not hear anything.   (i hate machines talking to me) 

Very simple, to the point.   I wonder whom your target market is?

Gen X, Gen Y, Boomers??   I personally never use sites like these, but it was kinda fun putting my question out there. 

Have you thought about letting people post their own pictures with their questions? 

After viewing the site here are my views:

1- Love the concept

2- Really closely related to about.com

3- Instead of making people sign-up everyone should have some access to the site but it should be limited to make them sign up

4- What if I want to join but presently do not have a question I am unable to complete my sign-up process I did not like that about the site.

5- Have some interesting questions and replies on the homepage it would make people want to click and sign up

6- Great idea and great concept

Wishing you blessings and success