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Old 04-04-2006, 03:31 AM   #11

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Thanks for tte list. One question though... is real life promotion really worth it?

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Real life promotion can work really well if it suits your type of forum.

Not only have i just started up the new forum in my sig... but i run a forum focussed on a specific car... Producing stickers for ppls cars has been a big WIN-WIN for my site.. not only do they support the forum with their purchase, but they advertise the site by default when driving around.
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great info! i'm thinking about starting my own forum but i have no clue where to start... i going to do lot of reading this weekend.
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Thanks. There's lots of help and articles on first time forum building and lots of people willing to help
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The thing is that for some of those things like forumzilla you need to have at least 100 members...I don't even have ten. What is the best way to get your first few members to build your community?
another good way is to play games such as DarkEden, Guild Wars, CSS, WoW, etc, and promote that way. It may not go very fast, but I can average about one new person a day.
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I use the following method to get traffic. I sent an e-mail to all my MSN contacts, and ask for them to do the same. Just like those annoying chain letters. Although you will probably get the same message several times (if your friends use the mass send feature), it´s still worth it.

In less than 48 hours, my board had more than 1000 unique visitors and hundreds of registrations.

Free, quick and effective.
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Interesting way to get the word out EuCoRi. It looked like it worked pretty well.

edit: Oh BTW nice read, sorry about that.
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