Definition of active - forum with over 5000 posts and 300 members Question - Have you ever hire any paid posters? If you answer yes, did you pay someone to post only at initial stage of the forum or did you hire someone to post periodically to give your forum a consistant boost? If you answer no, please share your secret of how you got your forum popular.
I shared my revenue with experts in the forum topics... The forum is new (less than a month old), we already got mention in one of the top newspapers from Costa Rica. When the forum generates more money I would definitely hire posters to constantly provide to the forum new and updated info.
No. I got a few contacts to join in and we started talking, and they invited their friends, and the forum got active. Have never paid a forum poster and nor will I ever. I guess it helps that my site is not jsut a forum, so I have got visitors signing up. I have also had great success promoting my forum in Yahoo and MSN groups. But it all depends on what your forums are about I guess.
Hi, I do not, I setup Directory-Owners.com just 24 days ago and we have already got over 1,000+ posts and 100+ members. I have not hired any paid posting or done any post exchanges. I believe it better to do the work yourself so I made a few posts with on the forum and started to advertise and that how I got my post count up. Just keep working oat it and you will grow Dan http://www.directory-owners.com
no ive never paid, i got couple forums, one is for business which im not worried abt at all, as im sure pure ppl intrested in biz would join and interact there, and another webmaster im thinking to make it revenue sharing 100%. so not really though of paid posters
I have never paid for posting. I started a forum a year ago and it has grown to be huuuge. I work off of that forum whenever i start a new one. I send out a mass email and let the members know that I have started a new forum and I get about a thousand instant members. It works for me almost everytime.
I do not, what you can do is just create a couple accounts yourself, the paid posters are over-rated and expensive from what I've seen.
I am also sure that the quality of posts is also subpar and might be slightly off topic if they have no idea what the forum is actually about.
I'll add that if you were going to spend $$$ on posters, instead have post contests for prizes. That worked pretty well for my first forum. Going to be doing the same thing for my new one.
I personally have tried a few paid posters, some good ones and bad ones, overall I would probably never do it again. I think something like contest or prize award do better than paid posting.
I've paid for forum posting, and the service can be variable. There's one company I've had a good working relationship with - quality posts, good members, real discussions - but their posting rate seems to have dropped recently. Another company I've used sent in the real bottom-of-the-barrel posters - nothing to say, one-liners, and some doing self-promos, advertising their affiliate links and even forum posting services. Point is, there are different types of forum posting services offering different quality of post - but nothing stays the same very long on the net. Overall, forum posting can be a good way to develop some momentum for a new forum - but it's not a replacement for a real community, and that still requires your own attention and effort to build. 2c.