Spice up your Community Forum
Making your forum interesting and appealing for your members is highly significant and will impact on your forum success. Try to ’spice up’ your forum every now and then to maintain your members interests.
Here are some basic tips on keeping your forum appealing and interesting:
- Interesting Topics and Discussions - Can’t think of any? Visit some related forums and work off their forum discussions. Avoid copy and pasting their topics, be creative and develop new discussions but using theirs as a base.
- Be Open - Be open to member suggestions and feedback. Listen and respond to all suggestions, this is how you can improve your community for your members. (Developing a positive member relationship).
- Newsletter - Communicate with your Members - It’s important that the forum owner should always update their members through the announcements or newsletters. Don’t send an overwhelming amount of emails but maybe once every 2nd week. Keep your members updates with significant updates etc.
- Avoid Annoying Advertisements - Money! Make profit through other ways such as subscriptions. Avoid the Google advertisements or more importantly, flash advertisements which annoy forum users.
- Share your Revenue with your Members - Create contests and purchase prizes such as domains, hosting packages etc for your members. This will motivate your members more.
- Be Creative - It’s all about being unique but not to an extent which you lose your forum concept.
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