What do you do to attract members?

[David]

Wha do you do attract new members. I put a link in my sig on a forum of similar interests to mine, I submitted to several directories/search engines, and I linked to about 10 sites.

FORUMOFTHESAXES.MYFREEFORUM.ORG

[Sugarcreations]

I don't know but if you find out please let me know.

[sgts]

Walk around my forum naked giving members free beer

[Symon]

I offer free drinks and food and girls but that doesnt work so its just advertising on sites like this
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I hope you are all signing up for the coop ad network, as this is pretty effecting in making you visible.

Aside from that a certain amount of niche marketing may be needed, unless you have a strong core of chatty people to start with.

e.g. The last car I bought was a Toyota, when I was thinking about buying one, I found a Toyota car forum. It was a bit of a no brainer to sign up to the forum, almost regardless of how active it was.

If you go this route though, you must still put the work in. No one will sign up to an empty forum.
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[Symon]

Ive siged up to that coop so only time will tell, what i do find alot though is that you get many guest asking question on how you do this and how you do that even on here, but you go on there site and they zap all guest posting if someone links to my site i link to theirs and alos sign up to theirs this i find is a good way of promoting both sites.
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[David]

[Symon]

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The linked sites can sometimes be quite poor. Which is why we have not gone in for anything like this happening automatically.

But if you use the link type ads, they are small and barely noticable at the bottom of the forum.

In prinicple digitalpoint screens the sites, but I like you am less than happy with the level of screening and I have complained several times on their forum.

But you have to look at the benefits and decide whether pragmatism is the order of the day?
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[scot swift]

hi i post my link on similarsites and i olso printed of some fliers and post them on cars in car parks

http://centralscotlandsuzukiswifts.myfreeforum.org/

[Symon]

[David]

[David]

It's a lot easier to attract members if your site focuses on one topic, such as basketball, or business card collecting. :P I've noticed that Many forums on here are too broad, and they should specialize on one or two things, in my opinuin.

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