Forum Engagement

[Menelaos]

Hi all,

I am the owner of Writer's PlayBook, a creative writing forum for everyone, professional, hobbyist or not in terms of creative writing (art and fantasy). I'm happy for the fact that I already have 3 new members in my forum, even though only 1 out of 3 actually engaged in a discussion, three thread replies, which I continued to discuss myself. I suppose you can all see my forum has a concept and it would be great if someone decided to start a thread of his/her own instead of mere replying! My problem is that I question facts related with active or not active members. I have read discussions here saying talking alone in the abyss won't help and I personally wouldn't like to be emptied just for the mere reason of hitting a few numbers. I am creative as much as I can be, meaning I'm planning of self publishing my screenplay as an ebook, in english, baring in mind the fact that my forum clearly supports 2 languages. This means I can do book marketing. Should I be worried of not active members so soon? Does the fact of more english articles matter? Wouldn't it be great If someone started a thread and not just a reply and how do you believe can I boost circulation and writing? Can you propose a few ways of making it more active?

I am looking forward for your reply!
Menelaos

[flannagan1992]

There are some promotion forums that do post exchanges that can work nicely and move your post count up, it could entice more people to join.

[Bubby Aroura]

Try advertising a leedle more, also make sure your members get the idea PRETTY HACKIN' WELL. (So sorry :,( ) Maybe make an announcement thread saying what ABSOLUTELY NEEDS to be done, aka tell them they need to be super active and make 2 threads and 12 posts a day. Just a suggestion though

[Menelaos]

Hi all,

Can you explain to me what this promotion forums are and how I find them? Google them? Does this have anything to do with Affiliate "exchange" at ProBoards?

OK I got it that I can't rely on mere ideas and concepts and I have to explain things, give instructions, etc. Nevertheless, 2 threads and 12 posts per day is an impossible and not attainable goal. If we're not talking about real life concerns, then this content won't be easy to be produced.

Personally speaking, I like when I write to have a filter for everything. i.e. the replies I got from 1 member have to do with the experience of a movement of 1 million people. I have written and await to publish a Screenplay and my next venture will be dealing with an Art Anthology at Wikipedia. There is a huge difference between thinking of writing concepts and the diligent processing of words, meanings and hermeneutics.

Personally speaking I am against to creating a matrix in the internet. (If I create hundreds of articles as a writer that noone on earth has seen them, and I project it to the web, is this healthy?)

What do you mean by saying, advertising a little more? How? Where? Does this have to do with extra content on my forum?

For all the above reasons is my current and future content and passing of time normal? Or do I have to consider more activity in general?

Looking forward for your replies!

[flannagan1992]

If you google promotion forums the biggest will be the first result. Also you could join other forums that will allow you to advertise your own forum. These are the best way of getting members in my opinion.

[Bubby Aroura]

(I'm totally screwed) Oh uhhh... Never mind lol.... Sorry...

[Menelaos]

Don't Promotion Forums Cost? (Depending on the forum?)

[flannagan1992]

The one I'm on doesn't charge and I doubt there's many that do charge.

[Menelaos]

OK, I Googled Promotion Forums, but i.e. one of the sole results I find, www.forumpromotion.net, makes categorizing "statements" I don't like. i.e. puts writing as a hobby. Also www.forumpromotion.com is general advertising and I don't think it actually talks about "exchanges". Can you give me a few examples of what you actually mean about Promotion Forums meaning exchanges?

[flannagan1992]

On Forum Promotion you advertise your forum do post exchanges with other people so they post a certain amount on your forum and you on theirs. They also offer posting packages.

[Menelaos]

If we're talking about Affiliates then I should start considering it.

But if you suggest promotion is different, meaning we look for Promotion Forums, then I think that both of my above choices are wrong. Can you tell me your choice? Because both at page 2 of Google there are not relevant results. What keywords should I choose to Google it? "Forum marketing" is different, isn't it?

[flannagan1992]

Forum Promotion is a promotion forum but offers other services as well which is beneficial for people to get their forums off of the ground. But if you don't want to use that site that's up to you, I'm not sure about forum marketing though.

[Menelaos]

www.forumpromotion.net is a good choice! I didn't pay attention to details as I scrolled quickly and now I see I can contribute in many areas. Thanks!

[Kami]

If you want to have free marketing, this is only effective if you already have a massive follower base that is used to engaging with you and promoting your work / content / links of their own accord.

Traditionally, marketing would involve some sort of advertisement and product engagement: targeted advertisement campaigns, signing up for newsletters, email mailing lists. If you're not interested and/or able to spend money to acquire a userbase through advertisement, then the most effective way is to already have a follower base that will do your marketing for you of their own accord by sharing links and advertising via 'word of mouth' both on and offline.

Without money, and without a significant userbase already, I would not advise in attempting any marketing strategies beyond forum promotion through the use of affiliates / post exchanges as the efforts would be largely futile.

[Menelaos]

I hope you're not referring to www.forumpromotion.net Kami. Forum Promotion has created its own currency, meaning FP Cash and is used in exchanges and a number of transactions. i.e. in Posting Packages they say:

"Posting Packages
Get new content and members for your forum or blog! Our trained packagers deliver only the best posts, threads, and blog comments. Make sure to check out the requirements before requesting."

Thanks to the fact we're platform-wise with ProBoards and other key activities, I believe someone can take advantage of lots of things. FP offers lots of things...!


Does anyone disagree with anything of the above?