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Pre-populating a forum

by jsmith2482
15 replies
Hey all,

So here's the deal. I'd really like too start a forum (as a matter of fact I have it up) but I can't find any software that pulls from yahoo answers.

I've tried

vumpost-can't find it and the ones that I can find don't post to the newest phpbb. Plus vumpost.com is down

Auto Forum Poster- terrible customer service and it works but posts nothing to my forum. Customer service finally gets back to me and tells me that they have a issue with vbullentin an they refunded me. I wrote back telling them I wasn't running vbullentin and they just didn't respond.

Jetconvo-Set it up and it didn't post. Other have had this problem. Email customer support 2 weeks ago and they haven't come back

Instadigi- Found a copy and had it installed but I keep getting a error message.

So does anyone have any experience with any of these forum posters that can help me or does anyone know of any forum poster that works?

Thanks
#forum #prepopulating
  • Profile picture of the author LogoNerds
    Why not hire a few people to set-up multiple accounts on your forums and start posting daily. The posts will be unique and would be more interesting to potential visitors. Not only that, they will interact with your new visitors resulting in those visitors actually coming back.

    It would be much more worth your time and money...just set a monthly budget for this and you're on your way. You can find some great and really inexpensive forum posters on freelance sites or any webmaster board.
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    • Profile picture of the author jsmith2482
      Originally Posted by LogoNerds View Post

      Why not hire a few people to set-up multiple accounts on your forums and start posting daily. The posts will be unique and would be more interesting to potential visitors. Not only that, they will interact with your new visitors resulting in those visitors actually coming back.

      It would be much more worth your time and money...just set a monthly budget for this and you're on your way. You can find some great and really inexpensive forum posters on freelance sites or any webmaster board.

      Was going to get some people to do it but I want to pre-populate it then hire some people to post then announce it to my list.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Kaye
    I've wondered about this myself...how do you get good quality people to keep a forum going.

    How much does it cost to hire "poster?" Where do you find them? Elance?
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  • Profile picture of the author LogoNerds
    Finding quality posters is a small hurdle you will run into, but before hiring anyone, give them some tasks to see if they are capable.

    Any freelance sites like elance, guru, etc. are good places to start your search. Definately check out odesk.com also.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Ambrose
    I highly recommend you check out contentcurrent.com, they offer a great service and they get really involved in starting a forum as if it were their own.

    Either that, or impliment a reward (pay-per-post) system

    Daniel
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  • Profile picture of the author magicash
    I had the same question on my very first post here. One of the suggestions I was given was to start it as a blog and wait until you have decent comment-traffic going on. Then open the forum and point from the blog comments to the forum. I know this was not your question, but it's something to think about. I know that there is nothing more unappealing than to see a forum with few posts or posts a week apart!
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  • Profile picture of the author Gary McCaffrey
    Here's a short report I wrote a while back on starting forums. How does hundreds, even thousands of real, legitimate active users from day one sound?

    http://www.instant-affiliate-generat...ommunities.pdf
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    JS...uhm..didnt you just post something on BHW?

    Anyway..i HAD a forum once where i used ico-content. But....yahoo answers is kind of "meh"...so this is really only recommended to get a forum going, so to speak.
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  • Profile picture of the author Talltom1
    Do a google on Amazon Mechanical Turk.
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  • Profile picture of the author LogoNerds
    mm365 (Daniel) gave a great suggestion - Implementing a rewards program. It will get your new visitors (the ones you are not paying) more involved with posting and referring their friends.

    Rewards can be as simple as cool forum badges, to special forum privledges. It doesn't have to cost you any money to give away rewards
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  • Profile picture of the author VegasGreg
    I see people at the DP forums that will fill up a forum with a certain amount of starting posts for like $15 within 24 hours.
    Then there are additional services to continue to pay for posts as it goes along to keep it active at the beginning.

    I would do that, then announce to your list and watch it evolve from there.
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