Re: UKNM: How do they do that ?

[Neil Durrant]

Hi Chris,


There is nothing worse than a forum thats empty except for the odd moderator

welcome and comment!


Starting a new board can take some time to develop the community.


The best tip I have found to work is to feature comments from the board

prominently on the sites home page and newsletter. Look for Requests for

help or 'controversial' postings for this!


You will also find it's not uncommon for a board to be initiated by the

webmaster posting various messages using a variety of different email

addresses, but I'm not advocating such behaviour ;)


>From a marketing point of view, if you can create a busy active community

sharing ideas on your site then of course you have a greater chance to

impart your message or demonstrate your expertise in your field.


Neil Durrant

www.affiliatemarketing.co.uk



----- Original Message -----

From: Chris Lewis <

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Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 3:11 PM

Subject: UKNM: How do they do that ?



> Hi All,

>

> I was wondering if anybody has been involved in attracting users to

> participate in discussion forums.

> How did you do it and did it create real added value from a Marketing

> point of view ?

>

> Banging my head....:)

>

> Chris.

>

> StrategyWeb

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