- How to promote new message forums?
- Posted by John on October 27th, 2005
I want to set up a forum message board web site, but I don't know how to get
activity started once it's up and running.
What are the best ways to drive traffic and get people to register and
participate in a brand new message board?
- Posted by Charles Sweeney on October 27th, 2005
John wrote
What you are asking is how to get people to know about something that
they have no idea exists.
Normally this is done through advertising. Figure out where your
prospective visitors are, then put an ad in front of them.
Get links from related sites.
Do press releases.
If your forum is good, the particpants will return.
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- Posted by rf on October 27th, 2005
John wrote:
Did you not factor this into the business plan when you decided to build
the site?
What's it about anyway? (You can now provide the URL).
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Cheers
Richard.
- Posted by Charles Sweeney on October 27th, 2005
rf wrote
What's a "business plan"?
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- Posted by William Tasso on October 27th, 2005
Writing in news:alt.www.webmaster
From the safety of the cafeteria
John <johnnyman307@hotmail.moc> said:
Host a party in an internet cafe. Offers prizes for relevant thingies.
o first post
o post that generates most replies
o longest post
o etc .......
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- Posted by rf on October 27th, 2005
Charles Sweeney wrote:
It's a, er, it's a...
A few years ago our Accountant wanted us to provide him with a
Q: Budget?
A: We get money when somebody buys our product.
A2: We spend it when we a) eat, b) ski.
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Cheers
Richard.
- Posted by Norman L. DeForest on October 27th, 2005
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, John wrote:
I think that would depend on the topic of the message board.
A forum for people wanting to housetrain pet wildebeests would need
completely different promotion than one with recipes for whooping crane.
OK, for more serious topics, a forum about cooking would require a
different approach for promotion than a forum for Linux users that
need multilingual support (Cyrillic, Chinese, Arabic and Cherokee
fonts for example).
What is your forum going to be about?
One idea: If there is a relevant newsgroup, you might ask permission from
some of the posters there to quote their questions and/or answers (posted
in the newsgroup) on your forum as a sort of seed to get the forum started.
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"> Is there anything Spamazon DOESN'T sell?
Clues. The market's too small to justify the effort."
-- Stuart Lamble in the scary devil monastery, Fri, 13 May 2005
- Posted by John Bokma on October 27th, 2005
"William Tasso" <SpamBlocked@tbdata.com> wrote:
o first hack that deletes all posts and requires everbody to register again
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- Posted by Charles Sweeney on October 27th, 2005
rf wrote
Sounds about right!
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- Posted by Matt Probert on October 27th, 2005
On 27 Oct 2005 10:00:37 GMT, Charles Sweeney <me@charlessweeney.com>
wrote:
On a board hung around the neck of a naked, nubile young woman is very
effective. So long as her assets don't detract too much from the
advertising text ! <g>
Matt
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