Marketing Ideas for a Teen Forum?

Hello all,

I'm looking for your expertise on promoting a teen forum.

I've got money, I need ideas.

 

Promote it where your target audience is hanging out. Social networking sites would be the big ones.
Make sure that it's functional and has some topics running before diving into promotion though, if it's just an empty forum when someone finds it, chanses areit wills tay that way.

 

myspace,facebook ect..

 

echange links with other teen sites, advertise in teen magazines etc.

 

Also promoting through similar teen forums and blog may help you.

 

Set it as Homepage on your schools computers.

 

If you want to free promotion I guess facebook is the ideal spot.
Just add some friends and message them saying "Hey! Let's hang out at www.YOURFORUMURL.com"

Otherwise, I guess advertising on blogs frequented by teens would be great.

 

Thanks for the awesome advice guys!

If anyone has some more ideas let me know!

 

I do:


contact the guys at www.xivio.com

their audience is teenagers

 

Yeah...definitely MySpace. LOTS of teenagers there.

 

MySpace's market is oversaturated already.
hardly anyone reads any bulletins that look like advertising.

 

Yes, that's the problem I have.

MySpace and Facebook have an awesome target audience, but there's really no good way to reach them.

Any other ideas? I have a $500 advertising budget.

 

also u dont wanna start spamming these sites as you'll end up with a bad rep.

 

You may try SEO,Social Bookmarking,Youtube etc for marketing.PM me if u want to get marketed !