03-16-2015, 04:29 AM
These are all good points. I just wanted to add some here.
- Creating topics, discussion and tutorials are not always enough to grow a forum. You can also try some free services to give while others are getting paid for that. It can create a huge impact over the audience in your niche. It will be like content marketing where you give valuable content for free and expect from the audience to rely on you and your site in a long term basis increasing your trustworthiness.
- Premium sub-forums can also be helpful. But it needs to be done when your forum has already some exposure. Paid and/or premium forums creates curiosity to the general members. And, in turn it will increase their engagement to your forum more.
- Creating topics, discussion and tutorials are not always enough to grow a forum. You can also try some free services to give while others are getting paid for that. It can create a huge impact over the audience in your niche. It will be like content marketing where you give valuable content for free and expect from the audience to rely on you and your site in a long term basis increasing your trustworthiness.
- Premium sub-forums can also be helpful. But it needs to be done when your forum has already some exposure. Paid and/or premium forums creates curiosity to the general members. And, in turn it will increase their engagement to your forum more.