Hi Yes do a search it has been discuss many times Just a few tips: 1. Have a website which is getting some good traffic link to your site(same topic) 2. Make some post yourself to get the forum started. 3. Register a few names and make post under different names. 4. Pay some one to do some post for you. 5. Run a competition, i.e. the user with the highest reputation or with the most post could win something... Hope this helps
Hi, Content is very important to get visitors to register, because most people coming to an empty forum will not do that. I think a competition where members refer other members can be a good way to promote a forum, the thing with that is that it is no guarantee that they will post. //Andreas
This part comes in once people actually visit the site. But the question remains - how will they come to your site in the first place? We're talking about marketing the forum, not about making visitors return.
No actually he is talking about maketing an getting people to sign up. To get the people to come to your forum is the easiest part, getting them to sign up is more difficult. How you going to get the people to sign up if they visit your forum and find it empty Talkindia if you have some people that will make some post at a "empty forum" for free please let me know
Well now a days you probably need to give people incentives to sign up at your forum at first. This may not be the case if your forum is one of the first forums for a new popular topic. Also you have to post on your own forum yourself at first, so it can remain active and people will sign up because of that.
Create a community through viral marketing and blogging, your signature is also going to work some what to create your own line presence. Check whether you are listed in different forum directories?
While many people visiting forums do not signup, many others do it but just to get into, or for a few times if you do not have something to offer, basically a nice dynamic community.