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Originally Posted by wizhard
WOW ! - my ghast is very flabbered and I'm not even gonna think about how much work is gonna be involved modding & admining that lot - LOL, do you ever plan to sleep ever again ?
On a more serious note, ( and you prolly don't need me to tell you this ), forums these days come and go and getting a new one up to any reasonable level of success can be very difficult because A, they are so cheap and easy to set up and B, because they are so cheap and easy to set up for any subject matter a forum can be centered around you'll prolly be up against lots of established competition from day 1
From what I do know about building a successfull forum I would advise you to think about making sure your first wave of posters are people that actually know the subject that the forum is centered around rather that go for the cheap, bulk blah, blah, blah brigade and get them to commit themselves to regular postings for at least six months because if you can "hit the ground running" with good info then they can be suprisingly viral, but without it they can soon get lost in cyberspace.
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The 100+ forums are all part of a very large online consumer network we have created. There are about 106 different categories, each having their own directory, forum, newsletter and blog.
This is a project that has been about a year in development. We advertise with tools like press releases and Ad Brite. We have a booth at eComXpo next month
To entice consumers to come and participate we have giveaways, such as our current one, a $50 gift certificate to Amazon.com
As far as moderating and administration, we will be opening an office which will be staffed with people whose task it is to do that . . . . among other things.
A lot of time, thought and effort has gone into this, and we are confident that by the end of the year we will be very well known. Then we will launch the adult version.
