Webmaster Forum Marketing?

Question

We have launched this webmaster forum http://www.webcosmoForums.com for 3 months. So far we got about 3500+ threads, 22000 posts, 650+ members. As a startup not bad I think.

We are running contests every month, which is helping to some extent.

What other marketing methods can we use to give the forum a boost?

Answer 1

Ok, online business is so huge right now, and that's what you guys do...most of your threads cater right into the waiting hands of all those people interested in starting websites and making money online.  That's your angle, thats what you have to develop your marketing mix around.

I would advise you to do these two things to help fatten your revenues from the site.  

First, I suggest you create a newsletter, a kind of best of cosmos email that you send out weekly to keep members abreast on the newest happening in online revenue generation.  You can even sell ad space in this once your readership gets big enough.

Second, i would advise teaming up with the nuts and bolts sites that sell domain names and such.  In this way you can advertise on their sites and their users will see your business and then go to it whenever they have a question regarding online business.

Do these two and you should be able to brand you self as one of the premier go to sites for all things online business.