How To Manage Your Forum Is the next thing to come into your mind after creating your forum.if you missed my post on how to create a forum simply click here
After setting up your forum, the next thing is to set up the different categories and boards you want to have on the forum.
For example, if your forum is about “Social talks like Nairaland” you can have categories like
- Entertainment
- Jokes, TV/Movies, Music/Radio, Celebrities, Fashion, Events, Sports, Gaming, Forum Games, Literature/Writing
- Politics, Romance, Business, Investment, Jobs/Vacancies, Career, NYSC, Education, Autos, Car Talk, Properties, Health, Travel, Family, Culture, Religion, Food, Diaries,e.t.c
This same idea can be used when categorizing other topics.
Now Over To How To Promote Your Forum and make people know that it exists
Setting up a forum does not guarantee success. It does not even guarantee that people will know about the forum. In other words, you need to promote your forum in order for it to boom.By promotion I mean, advertising and getting people to know about the forum and visit it.This means you need to drive traffic to your forum . There are hundreds of ways of promoting your forum online and offline.
Here is a list of ways of promoting your forum. Online
1. Add it to the signature of your email messages- [That is after sending mails to your subscribers put a link to your forum at then of the mail]
2. Add to the url of your forum to the signature or related forum you join- [write the names of your forum in any forum you join]
3. Share links to it on Facebook
4. Start a page for it on facebook and ask friends to join-[click here to create a facbook Page]
5. Tweet some posts made on the forum on facebook
6. Post links to it on book marking websites like www.digg.com , www.stumbleUpon.com , www.reddit.com. You can automate this process by visiting www.socialposter.com
7. Submit to forum directories
8. Make comments with your url on blogs of related topics
9. Write guest articles in other blogs in your niche
Thats All For How To Promote Your Forum Online
How To Promote Your Forum Offline
1. Advertise on offline newspapers and magazines
2. Advertise on flyers and posters
3. Advertise on TV and radio programs
4. Sponsor related events and get your name out there How To Promote Your Forum Using Paid Means Online This is the fastest way to send traffic to your forum or any kind of website.
11. Advertise on facebook
12. Advertise on Google Adwords
13. Advertise on other forums or blogs like joingurus.blogspot.com
14. Advertise directly on websites owned by others talking about your topic How To Get People Talking In Your Forum
After setting up your forum, the next thing to do is get people to join in and start talking. It is easier for people to join a forum but a bit difficult for them to start talking. There are many different people who visit a forum. There are active people asking questions and answering questions and there are other group of people who just visit, read the threads and leave.
I hope This Helps..........Feel free to post Your Comments
