Comments on: How to Get Your Forum Noticed http://www.powerhomebiz.com/blog/2007/01/how-to-get-your-forum-noticed/ Successfully start, manage and run a home business Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:02:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: thabealitialf http://www.powerhomebiz.com/blog/2007/01/how-to-get-your-forum-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-1044 thabealitialf Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:30:14 +0000 http://www.powerhomebiz.com/blog/wordpress/2007/01/how-to-get-your-forum-noticed/#comment-1044 Great post Great post

]]> By: Jim http://www.powerhomebiz.com/blog/2007/01/how-to-get-your-forum-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-485 Jim Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:01:02 +0000 http://www.powerhomebiz.com/blog/wordpress/2007/01/how-to-get-your-forum-noticed/#comment-485 Thanks Isabel for responding quickly. This is basically the same question I posted in the phpbb forum. Yeah, I prefer to do my homework before diving in. Anyway, your response is similar... I appreciate your answer. Now to see if I can get the forum activity level up and running. Thanks Again (you have the website address, feel free to stop in) Jim Thanks Isabel for responding quickly. This is basically the same question I posted in the phpbb forum. Yeah, I prefer to do my homework before diving in.

Anyway, your response is similar… I appreciate your answer. Now to see if I can get the forum activity level up and running.

Thanks Again
(you have the website address, feel free to stop in)

Jim

]]> By: Isabel Isidro http://www.powerhomebiz.com/blog/2007/01/how-to-get-your-forum-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-472 Isabel Isidro Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:49:11 +0000 http://www.powerhomebiz.com/blog/wordpress/2007/01/how-to-get-your-forum-noticed/#comment-472 It's a strategy, not about a question of ethics. Even MySpace was started with postings of its founder. If you can avoid it and get genuine users right off the gate, so much the better. You can ask people in your circle to post relevant , or you can invite people you know or network with to post in your forum. You can request your Twitter followers to post in your forum. Your problem is that chicken-and-egg situation: people will not post in your forum if they see it "dead" with no activity; but then how can your forum become active if no one wants to post on it. It is a tough first challenge for forum owners, so you need to do a lot of preplanning and prelaunch marketing, including keeping the site in beta and available only to select invitees who'll then post in your forum. Once you think there's enough posts to show activity, then you make the forum public. It’s a strategy, not about a question of ethics. Even MySpace was started with postings of its founder. If you can avoid it and get genuine users right off the gate, so much the better. You can ask people in your circle to post relevant , or you can invite people you know or network with to post in your forum. You can request your Twitter followers to post in your forum.

Your problem is that chicken-and-egg situation: people will not post in your forum if they see it “dead” with no activity; but then how can your forum become active if no one wants to post on it. It is a tough first challenge for forum owners, so you need to do a lot of preplanning and prelaunch marketing, including keeping the site in beta and available only to select invitees who’ll then post in your forum. Once you think there’s enough posts to show activity, then you make the forum public.

]]> By: Jim http://www.powerhomebiz.com/blog/2007/01/how-to-get-your-forum-noticed/comment-page-1/#comment-467 Jim Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:58:15 +0000 http://www.powerhomebiz.com/blog/wordpress/2007/01/how-to-get-your-forum-noticed/#comment-467 Question: Is it really ethical to "seed" a forum or is that just the way it is? Question: Is it really ethical to “seed” a forum or is that just the way it is?

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