How to start a forum ?

Hello all,
i have install my phpbb3 forum like couple month ago but it nerver get some user or post.

I just want to know how do you do to start a forum to get poster ?

Thanks,
Megadeth199

 

Add a forum to an already established website. IMO its not a good idea just setting up a forum.

 

If you want to find users, it would be good to try and market yourself online. Talk about what your community has to offer, and why people should join it. You could also pay people to make posts to get a community started, but that is something that would obviously cost money.

 

Thanks for your answer guy

With that i will try to start it

 

Take a look at The Admin Zone
It's a huge forum about forum Administration.

There should be plenty of people there that can help you.
Plus you might be able to find people to do post swaps with.

 

Thanks man for this great forum

 

Normally I'd agree with you, but I set up a new Forum for Small Business Advice 2 months ago and we've been able to get it up and flying quite well.

The hard part is seeding a new Forum, but I was fortunate enough to have about 50 friends and colleagues in business who got behind it from day 1, and they in turn invited their friends.

2 months later we have over 350 members and 36,000 posts - so it can be done

 

Wealdie, I red your reply and just wondering how lucky some people are ...
I wish I can rely to all your friends! I will appreciate if you can give a hand to my forum, too.

 

The thing is I'm not lucky - you have to make your own luck in life, and this often means hard work

 

Hey,

I didn't meant an offensive tone. I just asked for your help.

 

I have almost the same problem with My website selling/buying forum, but I find you can use competitions to increase your users

 

Hey, I wasn't offended at all buddy

 

Well best would be to create niched forum,where there is no or little competition.I created general forum and no active posters even after 2 years lol

 

Wow lucky to get 50 friends lol

My prob is my friend don't want to register to any of my forum (they are not very active online loll)


Thanks everyone for your answer

 

Its very difficult to get a forum on feet without much friends around it. One thing you could do is get in touch with other startup forums; and share postings.

 

Paying people to make posts or a service to give you 500+ members etc will make the site look active and will keep people around when they turn up. Noone will join a forum if there are less than 100 members tbh.

 

Why not you make your forum a revenue sharing forum like DP?

This may attract few people. Also, try to post some threads yourself, in order to make your forum a little alive.

 

That can be good ... I will try this

 

That is a good idea, however you NEED to make sure people know about this, a lot of people even now on DP do not realise that they can make money through the forum.

Market this idea and use it as your usp.

Will.

 

A lot of people don't know about revenue sharing of dp and i am the best exemple I just learn it yesterday.

But the problems now is to find a mod for phpbb3

Thanks for your answer,
Megadeth199