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Customizing SMF => Building Your Community and other Forum Advice => Topic started by: DreadPirateRoberts on July 13, 2020, 08:40:40 PM

Title: Today is a new day, what strategies are you doing to market your forum?
Post by: DreadPirateRoberts on July 13, 2020, 08:40:40 PM
This thread is to post what are you currently working on ro get more users and engagement on your forum? I current market on facebook music groups and have a monthly thread where member can share and critique their music. Also have a youtube channel posting music form my community. What your you guys doing?
Title: Re: Today is a new day, what strategies are you doing to market your forum?
Post by: Deaks on July 14, 2020, 11:43:40 AM
Facebook, Twitter and spamming my sig on forums
Title: Re: Today is a new day, what strategies are you doing to market your forum?
Post by: shadav on July 14, 2020, 01:13:26 PM
I don't much advertise my sites....
mostly word of mouth or sometimes posting on fb

working on serfs for better placement ;)
Title: Re: Today is a new day, what strategies are you doing to market your forum?
Post by: skb on July 15, 2020, 02:34:17 AM
Ours is a Diabetes Forum. In the days of Covid most people are not interested in other health issues anyways. Plus, with all the social networking sites Forums are suffering anyways. But we must try, and I'm in the process of building a You Tube Channel to promote the Forum, if it will work.
Title: Re: Today is a new day, what strategies are you doing to market your forum?
Post by: DreadPirateRoberts on July 15, 2020, 12:42:24 PM
Quote from: skb on July 15, 2020, 02:34:17 AM
Ours is a Diabetes Forum. In the days of Covid most people are not interested in other health issues anyways. Plus, with all the social networking sites Forums are suffering anyways. But we must try, and I'm in the process of building a You Tube Channel to promote the Forum, if it will work.
what is gonna be on the youtube channel?
Title: Re: Today is a new day, what strategies are you doing to market your forum?
Post by: skb on July 15, 2020, 12:49:42 PM
Some of the forum content in easy to understand videos and some general health issues.
Title: Re: Today is a new day, what strategies are you doing to market your forum?
Post by: DreadPirateRoberts on July 15, 2020, 04:51:28 PM
Quote from: skb on July 15, 2020, 12:49:42 PM
Some of the forum content in easy to understand videos and some general health issues.
post it here when you have your first video!
Title: Re: Today is a new day, what strategies are you doing to market your forum?
Post by: skb on July 16, 2020, 04:39:57 AM
Here meaning, the SMF Forum ?
I've made a few and my You Tube Channel is known as HEALTHY WEIGH.
Title: Re: Today is a new day, what strategies are you doing to market your forum?
Post by: shinglis on July 22, 2020, 04:08:40 AM
Quote from: Deaks on July 14, 2020, 11:43:40 AM
Facebook, Twitter and spamming my sig on forums

Same for me.  I've set up an auto-post (RSS) forum updates to a forum related twitter account and use my signature on any forum I post. The difficulty is most users tend to prefer FB group or pages for discussion instead of the forum but will continue to try and support forum and belive always a good alternative.