Yep, a community can start from 2-3 people, the most important part is your own involvement through thread participation and motivation to other members.

I think you can also target medical college students, facebook.com could be a good platform to target college student.

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Check the knowledge base to create a forum;
www.phpbb.com/kb/article.php?article_id=16

You could desplay podcast link on your site and should get listed in few podcast directories such as; http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/podcasts
http://www.podcastalley.com/

I was actually expecting some valuable suggestion from csgal, since this thread is for promotion of a women forum.

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Select most suited site from the list and distribute that much amount equally to all. :)

If its organic traffic you should expect atleast 2% conversion rate.

You can increase the ratio of your visitors if you target your visitors however I am not sure whether you are taking help of some company who claim to generate unique visitors to your site,...

Well, in short its all about targeting, your campaign should be targeted to following sites;

jwellery
fashion/ Modelling
recipe
cosmetic
dating
women health
work at home
housewares

I agree with roryt. IMO you should target the specific community and encourage them to post, use some motivational formula targeting your regular members.

It is nothing wrong with life, few people learn after making mistake. :(

Instead of looking for ad, I would utilise that money in referral program and organizing contest on my forum.

Well, if you add seperate section like employment/offer section/site review/selling site etc, there is less chance of spamming and self promotion.

You have to tailor your marketing message and targeting strategy with women in mind. I hope this link would help you;...

I have checked your site, its look good, I hope you should add forum on it, start with good posts, let few people close to you to contribute to your forum.

Best way to promote your forum on few female oriented site and related forums, publish about your forum in few relevant PR site.

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Ostriches don't bury their heads in the sand. They merely lower their heads. Hard work for me is smart work using own intelligence.

Right, it is network-enhanced word of mouth, IMO it should carry the central sales message and tailored to your target audience, even on SE point of view it improve link popularity.

Viral marketing is also a way to go with.

CSCgal, Yep, it is very true.

I have also seen few people just get a new name to bad mouth a company or just leave a post promoting a company and disappear. It really trouble onself to see such thread.

Best advertising is word of mouth and word of mouse both ;)

A forum point of view word of mouth might be effective somewhat in your local market only.

ipodman, you're right. I guess perhaps those numbers are not real, while you visit such forum you'll find hardly few posts and even 10 percent members are active there. I think this might be the...

cscgal, Right. Before buying it is important to research well about their past history and the profit making ability of particular site you are going to buy.

WHT maintain well their integrity and decorum of forum. I found dani as well developing nicely coming up with good design and good post. My best wishes to you and your team! :)

I personally stay longer in Webhostingtalk forum, I find people on their board are quite knowledgeable and helpful and that board has plenty of new posts and interesting topics and recent update...

punbb.org is good CSS forum available under GNU public license, I hope.

phpBB has a history of hacks and exploits and it is available in opensource. :surprised

The longer stay in a forum depends upon different aspect of a board. I mainly think that people develop a relationship with fellow members interacting each other. Other factors can be taken into...

I would say eBay is good for selling site but for buying you should prefer it to buy from forum members, if you visit relevant section of sitepoint forum you'll find many good sites...

Still I think it is not good in long run, those who are starting up it first are going to be dependent on that company to make it live and real with thousand posts, overall I think it will loss the...

I think overall it is risky, the post quality will be poor, it will encourage pointless posting, quantity rather than quality. You can encourage people by awarding a prize for good post instead pay...

I've not seen single post in your forum, how one can join your forum without a single member. You should make it live with few posts before requesting the fellow members. :-|

Add few fresh and good contents, good articles, offer referral program, contests to attract the members.

I think if you revert back the question and ask yourself; why people join my site? You’ll get the answer. :rolleyes: