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I recently launched << url snipped to comply with forum policy >> been rather successful in drawing in members by offering 2 promotions.

The first is offering 1 month free banner advertising to the first 25 members to reach a post count of 30.

The second offer is 6 months free text link advertising to the top 3 posters once our community hit 100 registered members.

So far in about 4 days we're up to 15 members.

Anyone having trouble gaining membesr might want to try a promotion method similar to this!

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I have tried a promotion of giving away gmail invites back when they were at the point of people paying a good chunk of money for them and that brought in some members but most of the members that that brought in only posted so much to get there invites and then left and never came back. i have had more success with just having my site indexed well on google

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Usually, word of mouth is one of the most effective for my website << url snipped >>. I tried creating promotions but they wern't very successfull at drawing in members.

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Originally Posted by big_k105

I have tried a promotion of giving away gmail invites back when they were at the point of people paying a good chunk of money for them and that brought in some members but most of the members that that brought in only posted so much to get there invites and then left and never came back. i have had more success with just having my site indexed well on google

Since we both run similar types of forums I actually saw your forum returned in google. Have you optimized the site any or do you pay for google adwords?

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Dec 8th, 2004

I think running promotion methods simular to that would cause spammers to come.

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4 days 15 members not to good.....

i had 50 or so...

now i have been up about 2 weeks or so maybe three andi have 320+

but jus keepdoing it..dont give up....

Go to sites and pay to have your site banner on theres...

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15 members in 4 days isn't good? I would say that was pretty good myself.

I've had my forum up for nearly a month and have a grand total of 8 members.

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15 members in 4 days isn't good? I would say that was pretty good myself.

I've had my forum up for nearly a month and have a grand total of 8 members.

That's fair. Don't expect to have 100,000 in 10 days like the guy above you. All that matters is that it grows! If it keeps growing (nomatter at what rate) it's doing good. In a year or so, it should be pretty big, eh? :mrgreen:

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I got off to a ridiculously slow start. The second month we were open, no new threads were posted and only one new post was contributed over the entire month! Just goes to show ya ...

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Originally Posted by cscgal

I got off to a ridiculously slow start. The second month we were open, no new threads were posted and only one new post was contributed over the entire month! Just goes to show ya ...

...And look at us now! I remember times when Dani and I were IMing each other, and she'd be worried about the success of the forum. Now, I think we're sitting pretty, and we didn't have to use any gimmicks from what I've seen.

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