Comments on: Starting a new forum http://selfmademinds.com/200704/starting-a-new-forum/ Sharing lessons learned in business and online marketing Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:21:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dallas Pro Web Design http://selfmademinds.com/200704/starting-a-new-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-13736 Dallas Pro Web Design Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:11:38 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200704/starting-a-new-forum/#comment-13736 One thing that really helped the Budgie Forum Garry was getting Al to install the gallery mod, that allows posting images into the gallery and increased interaction. Sounds like that module would be ideal for a photography site as well encouraging people to show off their skills and makes the forum much more of a visual experience when you first enter. If I were you I have product reviews if you can and keep them separate from the forum in their own area where you can use affiliate links and adsense reviewing all the photography equipment broken down into categories and get your users to contribute or create a review team with user submissions. Perhaps use part of the money coming in from affiliate sales to offer prizes and don’t be shy about approaching companies asking for samples to review they can only say no, also look into getting deals for photography holidays which I am sure must be available and look to source deals and discounts for your registered community. One thing that really helped the Budgie Forum Garry was getting Al to install the gallery mod, that allows posting images into the gallery and increased interaction.

Sounds like that module would be ideal for a photography site as well encouraging people to show off their skills and makes the forum much more of a visual experience when you first enter.

If I were you I have product reviews if you can and keep them separate from the forum in their own area where you can use affiliate links and adsense reviewing all the photography equipment broken down into categories and get your users to contribute or create a review team with user submissions.

Perhaps use part of the money coming in from affiliate sales to offer prizes and don’t be shy about approaching companies asking for samples to review they can only say no, also look into getting deals for photography holidays which I am sure must be available and look to source deals and discounts for your registered community.

]]> By: Robt Finke http://selfmademinds.com/200704/starting-a-new-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-13701 Robt Finke Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:52:39 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200704/starting-a-new-forum/#comment-13701 Hello, i guess this is as good of a place as any to post and let you know. I went to subscribe to your RSS feed, and when i clicked it i got an error that said "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING" followed by other gibberish that scrolled off the screen. I had to force the page to stop loading because it locked up my browser. Cheers. Hello, i guess this is as good of a place as any to post and let you know. I went to subscribe to your RSS feed, and when i clicked it i got an error that said “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING” followed by other gibberish that scrolled off the screen. I had to force the page to stop loading because it locked up my browser. Cheers.

]]> By: Josh http://selfmademinds.com/200704/starting-a-new-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-13311 Josh Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:26:48 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200704/starting-a-new-forum/#comment-13311 great article, thanks great article, thanks

]]> By: Thomson http://selfmademinds.com/200704/starting-a-new-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-12466 Thomson Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:53:36 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200704/starting-a-new-forum/#comment-12466 Hey TonyB, Good to know that you are from Houston,TX. Also what is your URL so that I can look at it and let you know whats the problem. Also you can contact me via my website. too. Thanks Hey TonyB, Good to know that you are from Houston,TX. Also what is your URL so that I can look at it and let you know whats the problem. Also you can contact me via my website. too.

Thanks

]]> By: TonyB http://selfmademinds.com/200704/starting-a-new-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-12438 TonyB Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:52:29 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200704/starting-a-new-forum/#comment-12438 Hi Everyone, I have a carpet cleaning business in Houston,TX that was doing pretty good until the economy went bad, and with it my clientele. I have a website for the business but I dont know what I have to do the get it to show up in a search. Right now it's somewhere in the yahoo/google netherworld (LOL). Is there someone on here that can give me some insight or know of anyone that coud give me insight on how I can get my local website on the front page of a Yahoo or Google search to increase my business without it costing me 5 or 10k $$$? If so please share with me. I thank you and my hungry over-eating children thank you. thanks, Hi Everyone,
I have a carpet cleaning business in Houston,TX that was doing pretty good until the economy went bad, and with it my clientele. I have a website for the business but I dont
know what I have to do the get it to show up in a search. Right now it’s somewhere in the yahoo/google netherworld (LOL).

Is there someone on here that can give me some insight or know of anyone that coud give me insight on how I can get my local website on the front
page of a Yahoo or Google search to increase my business without it costing me 5 or 10k $$$? If so please share with me.

I thank you and my hungry over-eating children thank you.

thanks,

]]> By: Pink http://selfmademinds.com/200704/starting-a-new-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-786 Pink Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:47:39 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200704/starting-a-new-forum/#comment-786 Very good article. Now I'm inspired to create my own forum on my site which is about littlefighter 2... I have now about 700 unique visitors per day on my website. Maybe I will be waiting a year before I get money from this forum. Very good article.
Now I’m inspired to create my own forum on my site which is about littlefighter 2… I have now about 700 unique visitors per day on my website.
Maybe I will be waiting a year before I get money from this forum.

]]> By: Make Money Online Pros » Blog Archive » Make Money Must Reads http://selfmademinds.com/200704/starting-a-new-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-477 Make Money Online Pros » Blog Archive » Make Money Must Reads Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:25:28 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200704/starting-a-new-forum/#comment-477 [...] Starting A New Forum - This is a great article about the ins and outs of starting a forum. One thing that was really interesting was how they used a paid posting service to post the first 1000 posts. What a brilliant idea! It has to be really hard to get a forum going and that would surely jump-start the whole thing. Well done, self made minds. [...] [...] Starting A New Forum – This is a great article about the ins and outs of starting a forum. One thing that was really interesting was how they used a paid posting service to post the first 1000 posts. What a brilliant idea! It has to be really hard to get a forum going and that would surely jump-start the whole thing. Well done, self made minds. [...]

]]> By: Martin Reed http://selfmademinds.com/200704/starting-a-new-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-465 Martin Reed Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:33:11 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200704/starting-a-new-forum/#comment-465 Well done on getting your forum up and running. I earn my living running online communities and love every aspect of them. I setup a community building blog a couple of months ago which offers further advice on creating and maintaining online communities. Well done on getting your forum up and running. I earn my living running online communities and love every aspect of them. I setup a community building blog a couple of months ago which offers further advice on creating and maintaining online communities.

]]> By: Thomson http://selfmademinds.com/200704/starting-a-new-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-443 Thomson Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:28:41 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200704/starting-a-new-forum/#comment-443 Great Interesting Post! It give me a new ideas about redesiging and marketing my Article site forum which has become inactive for a while. I am sure with these tips I will bring back my forum back on rails. Great Interesting Post! It give me a new ideas about redesiging and marketing my Article site forum which has become inactive for a while. I am sure with these tips I will bring back my forum back on rails.

]]> By: Al http://selfmademinds.com/200704/starting-a-new-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-440 Al Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:07:59 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200704/starting-a-new-forum/#comment-440 You can get all sorts of plugins for vBulletin that let you extend it's functionality (like displaying the latest posts), as I enjoy getting my hands dirty coding I just knocked something up to do it but there are many freely available alternatives to doing it your self. You can get all sorts of plugins for vBulletin that let you extend it’s functionality (like displaying the latest posts), as I enjoy getting my hands dirty coding I just knocked something up to do it but there are many freely available alternatives to doing it your self.

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