How to market brand new forums?

I just made new forums:

z6.invisionfree[dot]com/SportsCarForums/index.php?act=idx

and i need to know how to get the first few members and how to market it.

once you hit like the 50 mark i know members come much faster, but it's so hard getting those first 50.

help please! (join if you can )

thanks!

 

Best way to get traffic to forum is use either contest to the forum or get paid posters initially

 

What kind of contests?

 

You can create different usernames and start having a conversation with yourself. Another choice are polls, try pulling people in with some general polls to get their interest up. Make new polls often (at least every week)

 

I'll try the above.

And thanks for the suggestion

 

Make facebook fan page is the nice way to promote your site in the facebook active user.

Facebook is the big name in social networking it is providing help to promote your site in facebook user which is 300 million.

 

I remember seeing a software somewhere that will automatically create multiple usernames in your brand new forum and start posting and show forum activitiy so it will attract new users to sign up and join the conversation. I had it bookmarked but couldnt find it right away. So you may want to search for it and use it if you can. You can also run polls and contests.

 

You can use forum generator to jumpstart your forum.