You are the owner of this site... Now what?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by GreenDog, Jul 12, 2008.

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    You are now the proud owner of.. http://dogfoodchat.com/forum/

    1. What are the top 3 ways you are going to bring new people to the forum?
    2. How are you going to monetize this site?
    3. What would be some things you would change about the forum

    Thanks!
     
    GreenDog, Jul 12, 2008 IP
  2. silveraden

    silveraden Banned

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    very general questions.... forums are hard to promote...
     
    silveraden, Jul 12, 2008 IP
  3. Square Smile

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    #3
    One thing you could consider doing is consolidating all of your sub-forums.

    To entice people to register and post on your forum, they need to see activity. When someone looks at your website now, they see 13 subforums with little activity...

    If you were to consolidate your subforums into "General Dog Discussion". 'Dog Nutrition" and "Miscellaneous", your forums would look alot more busy and your would have more success recruiting new members.

    Monetization wise, the sky is the limit. Adsense, private advertisers, affiliate programs, forum sponsorship, etc. There are so many different ways, you just have to put in alot of work.

    Good Luck

    Jim

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    Square Smile, Jul 12, 2008 IP
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    mentos Prominent Member

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    I will use zango to monetize it
     
    mentos, Jul 12, 2008 IP
  5. GreenDog

    GreenDog Active Member

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    Thanks!

    The website is only 3 weeks old and I have been promoting it ONLY via craigslist and yahoo answers for the last 2 weeks. I am hoping to get some decent content and start getting SE traffic.
     
    GreenDog, Jul 12, 2008 IP