How can we get more people onto our web forum?
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You said:\n\nThe site doesn't really have a "purpose" or theme\n\nThat may be what your problem is. In order to get more participation, you may need to narrow your focus.\n\nParticipate in other similar forums, include a link to your forum in your signature.\n\nOther than wanting more users, what goals do you have for the forum?
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WHAT YOU COULD DO IS GO TO GROUPS AND CREATE YOUR OWN GROUP. CALL IT THE "ANSWER GROUP ". THEN EVERYONE THAT WANTS TO SIGN UP CAN DO SO AND CHAT
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Your forum doesn't seem to have any focus. General message forums are mostly for groups of people who already know each other and just want another way to communicate. Try focusing on a particular topic to find fans of a certain celebrity or activity. That way more people might get interested.
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tell them to get on yahoo
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Go to Whosonmypage.com & sign up !! Get others to sign up too.
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Well, try building an advert on a popular website and start your own group on Yahoo or MSN.\nGood luck
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Thanx alot, yahoo should have more people like you, telling us what is going on and who to look out for, THANX alot!
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I would say grow membership.  Such as Yahoo Answers, Groups, 360, mail.
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Upload them to a server such as image shack and then copy the link and paste it into the forum. x
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Try to use Yahoo Groups! This is a great way to do this!
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Make a list of companies that may be interested to reach your audience and advertises to similar websites.\n\nGet their contact person (you can try sending an email first, without sounding spammy). Submit your proposal -- e.g. instead of spending X amount of dollars advertising, you can reach X number of users by simply donating prizes.\n\nIn our case for example given that we are an online publisher for home business entrepreneurs, we get donations from book publishers who give us their newly published books for free that we give away to our subscribers. One of the big publishers send us regularly 10 copies of each title -- and it's because we are reaching an audience that they want. \n\nSo we had to create a Book Store page that features the new titles that come out and review their books. It's a perfect tit-and-tat arrangement that has worked for several years now, and more publishers are coming on board and giving us books.
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Find people here with same interest\n\nG-Rob
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use the name of ur site as much as u can, like share its name with ur frnds, go to Forums relating to ur site, Make a link of ur site as the signatures, distribute it via Yahoo! msngr, jus do anithing u seems to get crowd on ur site.
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I agree that phpbb is an excellent forum. So too, on the free front, is Simple Machines forum; on the paid front, vBulletin is another great product.\n\nThe short is, you really don't need to reinvent the wheel here.
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people need more information than this.\n\notherwise you will just get replies from - well - freaks
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