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I am in the process of Building a Community..

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and found that the hardest part so far is getting people to sign up. I have been using google adwords / linking with people / and buying up adspace when I can which has given be about a 20% increase in traffic so far. This within a few days.

I have also put incentives on registering. Like register and have a chance to win $100 and such.


But nothing. Just trickeling going on.

Next week I will start posting up interviews with Top Executives at companies and hopefully that will drive some traffic.

I just can't think of anything else. Just frustrating.

Any ideas?
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and found that the hardest part so far is getting people to sign up. I have been using google adwords / linking with people / and buying up adspace when I can which has given be about a 20% increase in traffic so far. This within a few days.

I have also put incentives on registering. Like register and have a chance to win $100 and such.


But nothing. Just trickeling going on.

Next week I will start posting up interviews with Top Executives at companies and hopefully that will drive some traffic.

I just can't think of anything else. Just frustrating.

Any ideas?
i dont know about anyone else but if i see "a chance to win ***" i think there must be some catch or a hacker or something. i wonder why there offering me this to sign up.
but thats just me:cheesy:
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i just did it to entice people to sign up. No catch. I guess nobody believes it.
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Re: I am in the process of Building a Community..

You're going to pay $100 out of pocket to some lucky member?
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Re: I am in the process of Building a Community..

yep. but none signs up. Try to believe that. heh. I'm a starting forum. I'll do just about anything to get people to come right now!

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I've found that one of the best ways to get people to sign up is to actively participate in other forums and use a link to your site in your signature, as you're doing here. We generate a huge number of hits, but also, have very few members for some reason
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Yes, just 3000 or so...

Don't worry about member numbers. Just get the site going, and people will look around your site. If they like what they see, they'll sign up.
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Re: I am in the process of Building a Community..

Let me rephrase myself. A lot of members. Very few active members.
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Well you got to think of incentives to bring them back. For example, you could hire a team of crackers to destabalise their PCs, so they'd come back and ask for help.

BTW, who was the idiot that removed the read/unread forum marker from the Website Promotion forum?
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Website Promotion is no longer a forum which allows people to post in it. It now encapsulates other forums. Just check out www.dazah.com for easy access to all it has.
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