Archive for June, 2009
Increasing Sales with Twitter
At this point if you’re running an online business that sells a product or service you have probably already paid for advertising on major search engines or someones site. If I consider the amount of money that I spend on these ads and instead gave away the equivalent value in a prize, product or service [...]
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Avoid These Twitter Mistakes
With the power of twitter in full swing I’m still seeing a lot of people make simple mistakes and overlooking the obvious. Below I will cover some of the easy and obvious things you can do now to leverage the power of twitter. Do Automate Automation is not spam and anyone who tells you different [...]
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5 Most Common Forum Member Types
A new forum attracts people from all walks of life. Below are listed five of the most common personality types that a new forum is likely to attract. Each one of the personalities listed below has their set of pros and cons. The job of a new forum owner is to control the cons and [...]
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How to attract members to your new forum
Do you have a new forum? Are you looking for your first new members to sign up? Here’s a simple method to attract your first visitors and have a high probability that they will join your new forum. You ever hear the phrase “you have to give in order to receive?” In this strategy it’s [...]
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How helping people generates traffic for you!
Do you remember what it felt like when you were in a bind and needed answers right now? When you were frantically digging through search results trying to find help online? Remember the sense of relief you felt when you found somebody who actually posted a step-by-step process of how to resolve your issue? Sometimes [...]
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How To Plan A New Forum Launch
New forums are like new blogs and face the same challenges of little to no content. So how do you build readership and motivate users to not only register but to contribute to a new forum that is empty? Having an overall plan is a must when launching a forum. What I like to do [...]
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Do Forum Posting Services Really Work?
Forum posting services are paid to create forum posts and also create new registered users to give the impression of an active forum. Forum posting services make their money from people who have stale forums or want to get new forums off the ground quickly. The question is are you exchanging short-term gain for long-term [...]
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Biggest New Forum Mistake
In the first two post of the building forums series we talked about starting a forum and choosing the right forum software. Before we get into configuration, optimization and forum strategies let’s cover something very important first. The one single thing that can kill a new forum before it gets off the ground is trying [...]
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Choosing Forum Software
Easiest decision of starting a forum is choosing the software to run it. In my opinion there is no better software to use for a forum than vBulletin. Having personally used several forum software alternatives and gone through the pains of transitioning from one to the other due to lack of support for extensibility I [...]
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Start a Forum
By starting a forum you can quickly build a targeted audience, share knowledge and market your product and services. Forums do an exceptional job of allowing a conversation to take place with customers at all levels and at the same time providing an archive for future customers to reference. By starting a forum you allow [...]
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