Paid Forum Posting. How was your experience?

I'm thinking of paying for some posts to get things flowing. Without atleast a decent number of interesting posts and interactivity most won't signup.

If you have hired people in the past please share your experineces. Was it worth the ROI, did you get quality posts or just useless jabber that would maybe even repel potential forum members?

Thanks for sharing,
Rob

 

I helped my forum although I only paid for 100 posts.

 

ROI? Not really. I hired some of them. 2 out of 10 only posted quality content. Others were just talking nonsense.

 

BY ROI I meant if I spend 50$ to get a forum going it's a good return on my money because I could easily spend thousands of dollars in time doing the same.

Anyone else with any experiences?

 

when you pay people to post, you usually make sure they are familar with your topic before you hire them.

 

I would rather get paid posters than getting some company. They are usually too expensive and always say they will post "long and helpful" posts, but usually they aren't compared to singular paid posters.

 

i have paid many forum posters and find 95% off them are crap and there posts are below quality, i have installed ico-content on my forum and deffiantly wouldnt go back to paid posters again.

 

I've had positive experiences using paid posting in the past.

 

If you are considering paid service to make your site look busier, then you should think about Johan's ICO-content script. I think he is charging about $75 now, but I use it on mine and it looks busy... lol http://www.nettrafficchat.com

If you think that hiring people will entice them to stay, you should know that they wont. Maybe 1 in 10000 will. They are just there for their money

 

I think, for paid forum posting to work you have to have a sound marketing campaign in place, so that when legit visitors come to ur site they will be enticed to join the chatter.

 

I have used forumsfirst.com for paid posting and they seem excellent and fingers crossed will continue to do so.

ico-content is an option but your provider will need you to allow the running of cron jobs - mine does not

good luck

 

I haven't done ico content: Read a few forums with it and well it looked spammy.

Not doing the hiring: I talked to a few people but they just want to post as much as they can. I don't need " hehe" or "You are right!" posts everywhere.

Luckily my site brings in traffic predominantly for things other than the forum. WHen people contact me via email I reply and include a plug for the forum. It's been working well and it's getting a pulse. Launching a forum is like a rocket ship it takes all the fuel in the beginning and even still may burnout lol. All about taking it slow and letting it happen. That's the conclusion I"ve come to.