I would want a longer-term solution. Most Posting services that I have seen do posting over a week or a month at the longest. I'd prefer to pay for posts - maybe 5 per day for 6 months.
Thanks ScottFish, I already wrote down what you say on my notepad... Yes it is a great idea that we can keep a forum active untill they find out nature/stable posters
Most posting services have "weak" communication skills. In a posting service I would want the screen names of the posters and to get updates via email about any changes and a thank you for your business closure email with a receipt with dates and amounts of posts. Example: Screen Name, John Smith. Twenty Threads started Seventy-Five Total Threads from This Date to This Date. and then a link.. Thank you for your business and if you need any more service use this link. In this way...I could make a folder for the email and have the total at the end of the year.. Or a yearly email with all services rendered.
One word...Reliability I have tried 3 services in the last month and I seem to get great posts the first time I use it then it gets horrible. I wish I could choose a poster once they do a good job rather then get someone else who could care less.
Usually i email customer with the list of forum posters, and i email them after finish posting.. This is the way i'm doing, it is time to dev a system like you said, i already wrote down what you said in my notepad too, thanks!
One thing that is key is the quality. Most forums have one or two liners, but if you can provide a service that has posters posting 10-15 line posts, that's something that I may pay for. My goal when I start a forum is to create a second channel other than my website that I can drive traffic with, I can't do that with one-liners that have no keyword value.
For 10-15 line posts, you would probably need to pay extra. You should make that an option, Alien, "Extended Posts Packages".
If you want consistent 10-15 line posts I would think you would probably need to post 3-4 times what the going rate you see now. I have been saying for awhile though there is room for a higher quality service to step in.