Hi Members, I'm from Kenya. I would wish to get more sign up for my business forum www.biztalk.co.ke without spending much on it.
Advertise your forum on other forums or websites. If advertising at a forum, be sure to put it in the advertising section or in your sig. For websites, you could try putting it in the guestbook or hooking up with the affiliates page. This step is a major key in getting new members. When advertising your forum, you may want to put the advertisement in the form of a mondo, eye-catching banner. Do everything in your power to keep your forum active. Visitors don't like to join dying forums, so be sure you can post something every day or so. If you're presenting something new every now and then, your current members will probably follow.
Post about your forum on social media. Talk about it with people there. Yes, it is also good to keep your forum active so people will always go there.
The only way to "get more sign up" is to reach out to the people who need your service. Promote your forum to the people that need what you have to offer. Those are the only people who will take an interest in your business, forum, or products. -
You can use Facebook advertising, in this way you'll reach more people quicker and easier, what you have to do is offer something free to download in your adverts maybe an e-book on business in exchange for their email addresses, target Facebook pages on the topic of business , through that email list email them your forum address and give people a reason why should they sign up on your forum.
I would suggest finding other forms, blogs etc that are related to what you are promoting and share a bit about your site and what it has to offer users. You can even contact blogs and sites that offer reviews or advertising for a small fee. There are lots of ways to drive traffic you just have to get creative and put in the hours needed to increase the traffic especially when you don't want to spend a lot of money to do it.
I would recommend that you try content marketing. That means write quality blog posts that are interesting and people will want to read. Then contact other sites and share with them what you wrote. People will visit you to read the content.
The best tip I can give you is to join relevant groups on social media like facebook and linkedin. It's been killer for my business.
Thank you all for the input. Am still struggling. But at least i have started getting organic traffic.
I think you can try paid promotion like facebook ads or banner on another forums if they alow you that i dont know so good
Really? I have tried this on LinkedIn (making contacts and posting links to my blog etc.) and got approximately zero purchases.