07-23-2003, 02:08 PM
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Originally posted by gleem
if you are truly just starting this surfer board, (less than 5-10 regulars posting daily) the very first thing you need is girls posting. The more girls you have, the more popular the board gets. Do whatever you have to, hire people to post, ask your girlfriends, offer free Lancome to all new girl posters, whatever.
Start with 4 or less forums to keep the discussion concentrated in one area. allow avatars, and give em plenty of good ones to choose from and allow them to upload their own.
Have a ranking system, if your site is called "chumper's XXX" like 0-50 posts and you're a "newbie" 50-100 "baby chumper", 100-200 "chumper" and work your way up.. people will post just to reach new titles.
After you get some regulars posting, pin a topic like "looking for new moderators" - this will double your current posters efforts, power on a board to them is like crack.
Once you got some moderators, get them to post daily topics like "favorite movie, favorite love song", and all that bs, somehting everyone can ring on.
Then bring on the prizes. T-shirts are the most effective cheap prize, even works here with millionaire webmasters. Easiest way to do shirts is with cafepress.com, you can make a single shirt with anything you want on it for like $9 or $7 in bulk. Best thread of the week wins a T-shirt, 200 posts wins T-shirts etc..
Hope that helps
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