I am the administrator of a discussion forum. It's a discussion forum targeted at Asian men and women of all races. It's powered by vbulletin. I have tried google ad's but didnt work good. I have amazon.com at present. I applied to yahoo but they have put it in a queue saying they have had an overwhelming request etc and will take time to view it. My forum recently started in May and at present I only have around 187 members. I really want to increase the membership as well as try to get back money I spent on the site (which was a lot). What do you recommend for my kind of website (because of the type of site it is;Asian etc)? I didn't know if it was alright to put up the url of my site yet. I would appreciate any suggestion or advice. Thank you.
Its targeted at Asian men and Women of ALL races. It's a discussion forum showing the appreciation of Asian men and their culture. My members are asian males and women of every race.
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Create something viral . Some viral ebook on asian culture. Start a competition . Remember content is king , fill your forum with great content. Trust me , online people they are dying to read some good content.