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Five newbie forum mistakes.
With forums popping up left and right more and more people are getting involved in them.But even with so many forums on the web and even more coming everyday only some are successful and other disappear.The problem is mostly in administrators.
This article will help administrator realize and avoid some mistakes.
1 - Number of staff
People that create a forum hire staff members right from the start.Beside 'promotion' forums there is no point in having more than one administrator on the forum.So basically you can do everything yourself.If you hire more than one staff member it will be costly for you and you need to know that there is not so much work for more than one.Now about 'promotion' forum it will probably be better to hire one more staff member beside yourself and instruct them to work beside you.
2 - Donations or special membership
Do not make this mistake.A lot of people start a forum ask for donations and give special membership in return for money.Now will anyone really give money to some forum that started yesterday??I think no.If you do this it can have contra effect because people can think of you as some immature guy that wants only money.There is one thing you can do and that is to give your beta testers and some contibutors extra permissions and not separate them into groups of people that gave money and those that didnt.
3 - No post forums
Try not to have forums with no posts in them.That can seem as people lack interest on your forum.Or even worse they will think that you, the site owner, lacks activity and interest in your own forum.Make the most of your time to try and avoid this.
4 - Competitions
Making referral contests or posting contests will only take up your time and wont give you any results.In the start of any of these contests you will see a jump in statistics,but when you give the prizes that you promised you will lose that rise in numbers.That's because people are interested more in the prizes and less in the basics and that is to form a forum community, and they will only make confusion in the forum.Other thing is for contests like member of the month or signature of the month, do not try to do this right after starting the forum because you will get no results.Be sure that when you create one you have enough people and activity on your forum to keep it going.
5 - Impressions
When you are starting a forum you cant expect to have enormous amount of people flying in.And do not at any cost post stuff like Keep posting or Please post.Remember that important thing is to have quality things and quality people on your forum and number of people will rise eventually.
I really think this will help create a better forum community and avoid disappointing people that like forums
With forums popping up left and right more and more people are getting involved in them.But even with so many forums on the web and even more coming everyday only some are successful and other disappear.The problem is mostly in administrators.
This article will help administrator realize and avoid some mistakes.
1 - Number of staff
People that create a forum hire staff members right from the start.Beside 'promotion' forums there is no point in having more than one administrator on the forum.So basically you can do everything yourself.If you hire more than one staff member it will be costly for you and you need to know that there is not so much work for more than one.Now about 'promotion' forum it will probably be better to hire one more staff member beside yourself and instruct them to work beside you.
2 - Donations or special membership
Do not make this mistake.A lot of people start a forum ask for donations and give special membership in return for money.Now will anyone really give money to some forum that started yesterday??I think no.If you do this it can have contra effect because people can think of you as some immature guy that wants only money.There is one thing you can do and that is to give your beta testers and some contibutors extra permissions and not separate them into groups of people that gave money and those that didnt.
3 - No post forums
Try not to have forums with no posts in them.That can seem as people lack interest on your forum.Or even worse they will think that you, the site owner, lacks activity and interest in your own forum.Make the most of your time to try and avoid this.
4 - Competitions
Making referral contests or posting contests will only take up your time and wont give you any results.In the start of any of these contests you will see a jump in statistics,but when you give the prizes that you promised you will lose that rise in numbers.That's because people are interested more in the prizes and less in the basics and that is to form a forum community, and they will only make confusion in the forum.Other thing is for contests like member of the month or signature of the month, do not try to do this right after starting the forum because you will get no results.Be sure that when you create one you have enough people and activity on your forum to keep it going.
5 - Impressions
When you are starting a forum you cant expect to have enormous amount of people flying in.And do not at any cost post stuff like Keep posting or Please post.Remember that important thing is to have quality things and quality people on your forum and number of people will rise eventually.
I really think this will help create a better forum community and avoid disappointing people that like forums