To Forum or Not To Forum, That is the Question

[David Jackson]

at the beginning, you don't have many members so there is not much work to moderate or admin a board.

Let's just agree to disagree, and leave it at that.

David Jackson

[DannyCutts]

Hello everybody,

this is my first post so I thought I would say hello and give you my experiences with running forums.

I dont like to post a link on my first post but I run the biggest plastering forum I started it 2 years ago and it has been a tough task! I have had companies threatening legal action I have had death threats I have had all sorts of troubles however I have had members thank me for the advice and providing work for them ect.

The first year of running a forum is the toughest it can make or break you, I have a few tactics of building a forum up and getting it running but I started it with now advertising other than SEO and word of mouth.

The forum is now 90 new posts a day and about 5k of page veiws every day it has been mentioned on the radio (my dad emailed me telling me) I have ben on construction sites and plasterers are talking about it. When this happeneds this is what makes forums worth while!

I like blogs but I do like forums a little more!

All the best

Danny

[Lynn Terry]

Welcome Danny

Feel free to put a link in your Signature File through your UserCP. That's also where you can add a profile pic for your profile page, and an avatar to show up with each of your posts here.

Glad you joined us!

[VAnetworking]

I know with my forum that most of our moderators and Admins are volunteers for the cause to help keep the forum free which takes quite a bit of the workload off me.

What do they get out of it? Well they get the power that's what! Just kidding hehehe...but they can establish themselves as Experts being moderators at a forum. For example, my forum has different forum sections ie) Bookkeeping, Microsoft Office, Blogging, etc. I'll put as a moderator for the Blogging forum area a person who is a whiz at blogging. Same for Bookkeeping forum, etc. It helps establish credibility for the volunteer moderator which in turn helps them in their business leads.

[DannyCutts]

giving someone a moderator roll it makes them feel real good!! Also increases post count as they loook at everythread and normally jhave something to say!

Danny