Growth How did you grow your community when you first started it?

[Cpvr]

Starting a new forum can be challenging. What strategies did you use to help your forum grow in its early days?



What are some of the tactics that you have utilized to help you grow your forum?

 

[Shawn Gossman]

When I first start a forum, I focus for about a week on making content for it.

I want to give new members plenty of stuff to jump right into.

After that, I'll usually start doing post-exchanges, signature stuff, and sharing it on social media. Then I wait for the first real member. It's exciting when we get them, isn't it?

 

[Bawse]

I joined admin forums, post exchanges, and promoted all over social media. I filled my forums with content, and I continue to post content regularly on my forums.

 

[InMyOpinion]

For our forum we are just starting out and our grand opening is on December 1st, we plan to host an event/contests as well as I find a key to growing your community when first starting is to create quality content that members will want to reply to and mention. We will also be offering incentives such as gamifications. The last way we are going to try to grow our forum is through word of mouth and promoting our forum. Whether that be through social media, promoting on other forums, through SEO etc.

I think it's really important to create a solid forum from the beginning so the members will want to be a part of it and grow with the forum.

 

[Cpvr]

When I first start a forum, I focus for about a week on making content for it.

I want to give new members plenty of stuff to jump right into.

After that, I'll usually start doing post-exchanges, signature stuff, and sharing it on social media. Then I wait for the first real member. It's exciting when we get them, isn't it?

It’s always a great idea to seed your forum with content before advertising or doing post exchanges—that’s one of my mottos too!

The best part of owning a community is watching it grow before your eyes, going from 5 members to 20, and then to 100. It’s such an amazing feeling—there’s nothing greater!


Every effort we put into growing our forums eventually pays off. It takes time and dedication to promote, but it’s always worth it in the end!

 

[Shawn Gossman]

The best part of owning a community is watching it grow before your eyes, going from 5 members to 20, and then to 100. It’s such an amazing feeling—there’s nothing greater!

Totally agree

You'll get to those slumps where it stops at like 20 members and then the next thing you know, you're hitting 100 members.

It's awesome to watch

It's like when I hit 1,000 subscribers on YouTube. I watched it happen live. It was celebration time and then it went down to 9,99 again LOL Of course, I just hit 6,000 the other day.

 

[Nomad]

I started my community after being active on a lot of communities fr many years, where I developed some good relations with the staff and other users. Therefore, when I started I already had some people who were willing to help me. The biggest problems while building a community is the content development, you need someone to create a lot of topics and a lot of replies. I use post exchange, buy posting packages, and also hire paid posters.