Hi need some more marketing ideas for my site. My site is a webmaster forum and so far it aint doing to bad, 2500 posts in the last 7 days, this aint excellent but its not a bad start. i get about 10-20 new members joining each day. these are the current ways i am getting the site to grow, but could do with some more ideas. and appreciate everyones help. i want this site to get really huge. advertising with google adwords sticky advertisements in namepros submitted to all free diectorys submitted some articles to article directorys. referal competition members get paid for there posts by paypal free directory links for members thanks steve
well, if you can explain to us here how the paypal-function works, I'm sure you will find people joining your forum very quickly. Of course another issue is: how are you going to keep the site up if you are paying people?
Your current forum structure (Payments) cannot work forever, as soon as you stop paying the people will go
currently for paypal payments, when a member requests there money, they can reply to the main thread, or send me a pm. All funds for the site are coming from another companys profits, so this sytem will be running for along time. thanks steve
Yes, this is the weirdest business model ever. I mean DP makes it very clear that the money is coming from google- and on a 50% basis. That makes sense. Just paying anybody to post is asking for trouble, IMO. I mean - will you pay people for senseless posts? Only for starting threads that get replied to? You need some sort of rational limit here - or you will get major disrespect from people when you stop paying them.
yes certain forums are non pay forums, full details can be viewed at this thread. http://www.webmastersroom.com/about308.html this way we are trying to keep the site related to webmaster topics and webmaster content. has anyone actually got any other marketing ideas? this is what this thread is about. i may start a constuctive critism thread and i will let you no the thread id. thanks steve
Member Milestones: 2 people get a prize - the xxxx member plus the person who referred him. However it would need to be a qualified member (minimum number of quality posts). This could be regular intervals for members (1,000th, 2000th, 3000th or something weekly/monthly. The ideal prize would likely need to be something webmaster related. Also keeping the topics relevant and useful will serve a much better purpose than just getting a lot of 'inactive' users who dont return often and dont contribute much - so ensuring good topical threads are regularly started and dont become spammed out should help the quality of information. More marketing is it take it more viral and onto any major marketing blogs that are not a direct competitor (or get people talking about it in the blog world in general).
thanks for the excellent feedback ganceann, i will add this member milestone feature to my site. i did think about blogs, but to be honest i dont no alot about them, so gonna do some reading up now. thanks steve
Buy ad space from other websites. Pay forum posters to make your forums more lively. Join relevant forums, post there and add your link to your sig.
thanks ablaye, your reply is greatly appreciated, i have added my site to my sig here, i am getting some hits from this. i have also bought adspace on http://www.seocompany.ca and on http://www.phpbbhacks.com thanks steve
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Instead of just paying people for posts, try doing an affiliate program. IE the more people they invite, which reach X amount of posts they will receive Y amount of dollars or a gift. I would think this form of affiliate program would be more successful and provide a higher quality content for what your doing.