Five Hundred Members and Growing

5,000 people by next year means 4,500 people over the next 12 months, or about 375 people per month, about 12 people per day.

After the mention in the New York Times there were about 20 people joining LiveModern per day for at least two weeks. So it seems possible we could reach those numbers if there was some sort of flow of publicity, or at least some frequent publicity now until the member numbers brought about a self sustaining growth as the network spread. We seem to get about 5 new members per day, some days more, some days less, so it does not seem like an outrageous goal.

Greg,

I think your math is correct. We'll in essence have to double our current rate of 6 new members per day (December average, and a "slow" month because of the holidays) within about 6 months, and sustain the growth curve after that. Part of that influx will come through continued public relations (free press) and part of that will have to come from the network effect (word of "mouse" by current members). On the latter, having more directory content is key, I think, as well as forum content.

Marshall