Marketing general

How come there isn't a marketing general in Veeky Forums ? Lots of people make threads asking questions about marketing, yet no one has made a thread dedicated to these questions.

Lets have a Marketing general.

OK, guess I'll start this thing myself...
if a website doesn't even have users after 1 year (after posting it to Veeky Forums sometimes) but its idea seems to be good (got lots of praise about it), should I rebuild it, spam it more or simply drop it?

First spam it.
If it still doesn't work, then decide to rebuild or drop.

Although it sounds like what you need to consider is why the website doesn't have users.

I'd go with this.

Depending on what type of site it is you might need to make some fake profiles and stuff to "get people interested" - pretty much all dating sites do this.

>Although it sounds like what you need to consider is why the website doesn't have users.
the website uses FOSS text-to-speech engines to make audio files that you can convert to videos and/or share. sadly, the voices suck, and the best TTS engines out there are not free (as in, neither FOSS or $$). also, I guess the UI sucks in mobile.
I'm not really sure what groups would use the site. I tried making/spamming memes and stuff, and that didn't take off.

>I'm not really sure what groups would use the site.
there's your problem.
Identify (or create) a problem. Present this website as the solution.

Quite frankly i don't know what use it could be? Why convert to videos? Do the videos including the written text?

You know more than me, tell me, who could use this
>Teachers and Lecturers?
>Boardrooms, instead of stenography?
>Management when sending memos?
>Train Schedule Announcements?

>Do the videos including the written text?
no, you give the site the URL of an image, the URL to the audio and it will create a video with audio that you can use for, well, whatever you want.

btw, the site is nask dot co

>College starts next week
>I'm on Marketing

What should I expect Veeky Forums?

Depends on your school. If your uni doesn't have a solid business school then you shouldn't expect much. An MBA is probably in your future if you like marketing.

Layout needs work man. It's too plain, see if you can find an image like pic related, except... ya know better. I think visuals will really make the site more self explanatory and inviting.

I still think the real problem is there's no suggestion for what problems or purposes it can solve.
It'd be great for lazy university students who want a more audio-visual presentation, they can throw in some images, type up there notes. Hit play on a video and let the computer do all the talking.

But think more broadly, where is this technology useful?
Safety announcements? Public Transport?
hell maybe you should start selling it to all the guys here who are trying to make mad Youtube money, that way they can create "original content" with minimal effort and not appearing on camera!

EVERYONE: MARKETING IS ABOUT SOLVING (or creating) PROBLEMS