Building an online community and succeeding
Have you ever thought to yourself how new forums succeed and you have don’t have any idea why?
Well, we’ll try to cover how a community succeeds.
As, the owner - you must be able to dedicated some time your community for quite some time. Think to yourself. What is your community? What is your general target? Is your forum the only one in existance in your niche? If it is, then you’re in luck - be the first to become #1 and set the goals for any competitors.
As the owner, you should try to post at least 10 - 50 new threads a week, and post as much as possible until your community takes a life of its own. Do you have any friends? Tell them to post as often as possible. Remember, guys small forums can become larger ones in a short period of time if the work is put in.
Post exchanges:
Have you tried to do any post exchanges with other forum owners? This could help your new community in the short run, but you should have members posting as well to make this work for you. If you’re looking for an automated post exchange program, then we recommend postfusion by Adminfusion. Remember guys, do quality post exchanges. Don’t aim for quantity - you want quality content that users will want to reply to.
Paid posting:
Why should you do paid posting when your friends can post for you? Paid posts are worthless and usually don’t help your community at all - so don’t even bother. Save your money and try to promote your community via google adwords or something similar.
Communities for forum owners:
Do you want to discuss your forum, ideas, and other important aspects of your new community with other forums? Well, the following forums are dedicated to forum owners:
Admin fusion
The admin zone
**Feel free to add to this list.
Promotion of your community:
Are you a member of many online communities? Do you post helpful articles for users to enjoy and that’ll make them look up to you? Well, why don’t you include a link to your site in your signature? Maybe, you’ll come across some new users that’ll help your build your new community just because they like you.
We learn from successful forum owners just like yourself, so if you have any ideas that we didn’t cover, then feel free to post them!