Build back links. Start posting on other forums and blogs. Put your website in your sig. Also you are going to want to start exchanging links with other related websites to your niche. Forums are very hard to start. At first either you can spend a lot of time making sure there is always something new on your forum. People will not come back unless they see something different Hope this helps Brandon
Don't forget the power of Yahoo Answers, you can even outsource it. Just find some questions relevant to your niche, answer them with good quality content, then point them back to your site. It won't get you a ton of traffic, but is certainly a nice (and free) method of doing so. Tim
The very basic step to woe members to your forum is to join and post in as many forums as you can... forums with the same topic and interest of course..