I just completed a new forum for Fraternity and Sorority affairs called Greek Talks. I'm wondering how I can get my forum posted on in a quick amount of time. I've looked into companies but is there any other recommendations for this? http://www.GreekTalks.com
I too run a forum posting company, but my suggestion would be to open a contest and let other forum members know about it. A good number of members are driven your way by this.
1) Hire forum posters 2) Start a contest and lure people with attractive prizes 3) Offer any service/product for some posts on your forum
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Are you looking for free ways or are you ready to invest... Hiring forum posters for your forum might be one of the best solutions.
1. Hire posters 2. Run contests with the organic members so they post more 3. Run a referal contest along with posting contest so members refer more people so they inturn come and post more and participate to get the gifts u give in competition. Gifts can be anything priced less but they work more and makes members loyal
Quality depends on what you pay. For 5 cents you would get some poor quality too. In our company, normal charges are $0.14 minimum and quality assured.
Wow !!! $0.14 per post is outrageous !!! Plus, there's no way in the world a "forum posting" company could possibly be knowledgable to create quality posts for every given niche. Especially this particular highly specialized niche. I started my entrepreneur forum as a PTP (Paid to Post) forum and was paying $0.02 per post. Granted, running a PTP forum is a royal pain in the butt because of all the nickle and dime scammers and I discontinued the PTP after a year and 100K posts and 7K members but the interesting part is my best forum members have stuck with the forum because they know the SEO value of being a part of a well maintained forum (like DP). Honestly dman779, you have a great niche idea but the trouble with marketing to college kids is that they will go wherever the crowd is. I checked out your forum and noticed the one thing you're missing is the most important thing and that is sub-forums for each fraterity or sorority. I have a similar forum for college sports but if you look, I have it divided into Conferences with sub-forums for each school. Your forum seems to be catering to general discussion and not targeting you niche. Also, if you were in a fraternity or sorority in college, networking through your chapter would be as easy as 1-2-3. I was a Sigma Chi (ΣΧ) at FSU and if I were working your niche, I'd contact my chapter about getting a mailing list in return for special consideration on the forum.
I agree. I had contests on both of my e-book product sites and they were phenominal. It really attracted people quick.
I'll definitley look into the forum posters, it is hard though since it is such a specific niche. I have a good advertising plan but wouldn't want to fully launch the website yet without a decent amount of posts. thanks all for your advice.
Contests to encourage posting. Hiring people to moderate as well as post. Post often your self with topics that encourage replys.