Posted 18 January 2003 - 02:15 AM
If you wanna get people to use your forums more, just create a competition.
We run them all the time when we want to get new visitors and get a new forum rolling.
Just do something like when you hit 500, anyone with 40 posts or more is entered into a draw to win......... (whatever it is you want to give away)
This will gain you loads of posts, loads of new visitors, and you wont believe the amount of people that will come along to post when they see this.
The bigger you want the forum to be, the bigger you should make the prize.
For instance, giving away one game aint that great.
So you couldnt expect 500 user limit and 40 posts, cos that is asking alot for the prize of 1 game.
But say you wanted to giveaway a PC, then your talking 1500 users, with 50 posts to each name.
It depends on your budget, and just how popular you want your forums to be.
We are just about to launch one at CaseTech. Win a set of Creative speakers for 300 user & 40 posts. Cost £50 speakers + we pay shipping fee upto £10.
I'm sure you get the idea by now.
And trust me it works!
And dont forget that thse new forum users are also potential customers, so the cash should come in faster too.
CC.
