Earning Money

Yesterday, I mentioned the importance of staying consistent with your forum. With this, I mentioned how important it was for you to constantly post on your forum. However, sometimes it can really be difficult to get these posts. Maybe you are not getting people to sign up for your forum and you’re unable to get conversations going on. That’s happened to me before. Or maybe your forum is dying and you just need a little boost on it. That has happened to me before as well. Running a forum is not the easiest thing, I won’t ever tell you it is. However, getting posts on your forum is not that difficult. Here are a couple of ideas on how to do it.

The first is called a post exchange. The title of it gives away what it is. Basically, it is an exchange that you do with someone else. So, why would you want to do this? I’ve found that it is difficult to generate a lot of conversation by yourself and sometimes, you don’t have any ideas on what you can post about. It happens that way sometimes. However, by bringing another person in, they might post questions that they have that will produce new threads and they might reply to some of your posts and that’ll allow for more and more growth for your forum. Whenever doing a post exchange, I recommend asking for a few threads on top of posts. It’ll help with your overall growth.

Geting a Moderator. I have said it time and time again and I think I will probably say it again in the future. Getting a moderator can really help you get more activity on your forum. Once you have one, they tend to start posting more because now they are a part of the team. They are a part of the growth of the forum and this gives them their own pride. I’ve found myself from when I was a moderator that I wanted to prove to the owner that I was good at what I was doing. Because of this, I found myself posting more and more. Getting a moderator can really get a lot more posts on your forum.

Make a second or third account. This is something that I have never tried because I find it slightly dishonest, but it can definitely help. If you want to try and make it appear that your forum is more active than it actually is, something you can do is make a couple of accounts. On one account, post a thread. Then with another account, post a reply. Then you can go back and forth talking about it. This will add a lot of posts to your forum and make it appear more active than it is. However, all you need to do as a forum owner is show people that your forum is active, even if it really isn’t, and people will sign up. So, it’ll go from a false activity to a real activity.

The final method is to actually buy the posts. Now, this is only to be done if you are desperate to get your forum active once again. I have never actually bought posts for my forum; however, I did used to own a forum posting company. I did it with my friend and I found that people were very interested in doing it. For a cost, they were guaranteed X amount of posts on their forum. If you’re intending on opening a forum soon or really marketing it, this is something I would recommend because you are going to look extremely active. The only downfall to this is that it costs money. You have to fork money over to people to get the posts. But…They are posts, right?

Forums are really hard to run and to grow large. I know a guy that makes five thousand dollars a day on his forums. Not that’s a lot of money. However, he really works on them and gets them large. However he does it, I do not know. I am not going to say for one second that I am a forum expert. I work on a forum and I have plans to open another forum as well as a role play game that runs on a forum in the future; however, for the time being, I am no expert. All I can say is this…Constantly post on your forum and if you can’t, try and do something to get other posts. Get a moderator, do post exchanges or hire a company. Whatever you do, you must ensure your forum does not grow inactive. That’s the most important thing.

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