Even Secondary School Kids have their magazines.
Seriously, I'd suggest some cosmetic surgery on our website outlook before venturing into any magazine business.
Just compare this
http://www.xitek.comhttp://www.xitek.com/ with our "what the duck" cartoonish front-page, long way to go.
I'm not trying to discourage you guys, but it is a good idea to practice on the outlook of our website before actually pouring money into something risky.
At the time of this post there are 1014 active users for Clubsnap and 6368 for the linked chinese photoequipment website. Below are some statistics of Dpreview.com
Month by Month Statistics - excluding forums*
Month Page impressions Visitor sessions
November 2007 66,833,200 25,866,595
December 2007 71,926,491 25,845,658
January 2008 69,770,869 27,644,128
February 2008 66,584,261 24,243,954
March 2008 77,775,147 25,106,664
April 2008 71,014,497 24,626,375
May 2008 76,684,540 24,772,751
June 2008 72,267,473 23,496,719
July 2008 70,505,480 23,073,974
August 2008 70,254,026 23,046,693
September 2008 86,895,567 25,586,444
October 2008 78,157,694 25,563,564
November 2008 74,777,766 23,986,590
Visitor Statistics (Q3 2008)
Statistic Value
Average Visit Length 16 mins
Average pages per unique visitor 10 pages
Top Geographic Regions (Q3 2008)
Region % Visitor sessions
North America 68%
Europe 19%
Asia 7%
Others 6%
Most Active Countries (Q3 2008)
Region % Visitor sessions
United States 65%
Australia 4%
United Kingdom 4%
Canada 3%
Singapore 3%
Germany 3%
Netherlands 3%
Hong Kong 2%
Japan 2%
Others 11%
Singapore always touts itself as a regional hub and strives to be a global one where east meets west, shouldn't the online communities be as ambitious too? How about some quality formal equipments review to establish some authority? Our review tab on the front page is still empty. Since this is where east meets west, I'd suggest some collaboration with chinese or japanese forums and translate their quality equipments reviews into english, a form of outsourcing for lack of resources. Just some of my wild thoughts.