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Norrad's picture

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Joined: Feb 2006

I managed to get 2 great domains (imexforum.com and eximforum.com) and I've put up a forum. Now I need to start promoting it. Any ideas?

Its a forum about the import/export industry and there isn't to much competition in the field.

He has: 377 posts

Joined: May 2005

try announcing it by writing an article and posting it to a trace email group - search yahoogroups.com and submit it to a trade magasine.

etech-peter's picture

They have: 129 posts

Joined: Nov 2005

Try advertising your forums in business newspapers, trade magazines and yellow pages and see how it works. Since there are not many forums out there which are related to yours, posting and adding a brief description about your forums in your signature and post exchanges is a bit difficult.

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They have: 2 posts

Joined: Feb 2006

Norrad, check your index, it seemed to autoredict me to your news section. it' strange.

They have: 11 posts

Joined: Mar 2006

I sent you an email, i think it will be very helpful Smiling

They have: 30 posts

Joined: Mar 2006

This is one idea, post exchange. Work on 1-on-1 post exchange or join in post exchange group(s) like http://www.aardvarkinternet.net/chat/index.php?c=3 and http://www.thepostswap.com/.

He has: 20 posts

Joined: May 2005

I would advice you to :

1) Fill your forum with posts

2) Get a unique theme for your forum

I say this because people don't usually register to empty forums, and a good look is allways a big advantage for your forum.

As for the promotion, the best way to promote a forum is allways the free one Smiling
Make link partners, submit to directories, etc.