Spark Promotion

How soon do you wait after a member joins your forum before you'll make him/her staff?

When you do a post exchange with someone, do you try to spread your posts throughout the entire forum, or do you concentrate on one specific area?

What do you expect from the person doing an exchange on your forum?

If you employed any staff in helping to run and manage your community, how do you pay them?

Do you pay them weekly or monthly or yearly or you doing pay them at all because you only hire free volunteers?

How do you find people who have tech knowledge to help on your forum that you can trust?

Earlier this week, I set out to design my first Affiliate Web Button. You know, those little buttons that are 88x31px, and I have to say that in the process of designing my first one, I've learned quite a bit. I'm not 100% happy with what I created, but it's a start. It simply has the name of the site, and the imagery exclaims something about what the site is about, Anime. But I feel the eyes also tell something deeper. The eyes are expressive, and inform about the character, and that's a core component to role playing, because without the characters, you have no game, and no story to tell.

Anyway, the point of this post is to discuss what you found works best for this form of advertisement, what's absolutely critical to include in a web button like this, and what's sometimes done incorrectly?

Have you ever received criticism about your forum, that eventually you realized was actually true? What happened? Did you change things because of that criticism?

Another great way to help build up content and also engagement in your forum is to take part in forum post exchanges with other forum owners.

This is something that I have done quite often in the past, and as much as it can help with content and engagement, a lot of the time, the quality of the content is not always high or the greatest.

Do you take part in post exchanges to help build forum content?

I have four websites, two of which are still under development. How about you?

How often do you tend to promote your websites? Do you delicate a few hours per week where you do nothin but promote your websites, or do you promote every other week?

What's your go to tactic in regards to promoting your websites?

Over the years, I have used many different hosting providers, and I remember the first one I ever went with was BigWetFishhosting, which was until I found out that when using their shared hosting, you were sharing with around 200 - 300 others, which caused slow loading and a lot of downtime.

Now I use NameCheap and haven't had any issues with them in the year almost that I have been with them.

Who is your favourite hosting provider?

When I checked my forum stats, I saw that people join, post one or two replies and then leave. but inviting their friends? I haven't seen that happen. Meanwhile, I have a referral bonus in place. It seems everybody was just consuming and leaving. Sometimes I feel like focusing on organic growth alone. What do you think?

I was reviewing my forum categories this afternoon and I feel it's too choked. I thought of splitting it, but I was thinking about its effect on the forum engagement. There was a time I split one section, the activity dropped so much. In this case, there is growth but the structure is messy. What do you think I should do?

The biggest forum that I ever built from the ground up had 270,000 posts, and over 10,000 members. This was my second version of VPL, and I'm a firm believer that I will do it again and break my biggest forum's record in the near future.

What about you? What is the biggest forum that you ever built from the ground up?

How much time do you spend on your forum?

Do you think you spend enough time on your forum? Why or why not?

I have received many complaint about scam on my DM severally. Then warn people, pin relevant posts to educate them and drop announcements still, some people would still fall victim. Even with all these efforts, some users still trust random DMs more.

The Hiking Forum

https://thehikingforum.com/

A forum dedicated to hiking and backpacking topics.

Trail Running Forum

https://www.trailrunningforum.com or https://trailrunningforum.forumspark.net/ whichever you desire.

An online community (very new) dedicated to trail running, training, nutrition, gear, and more.

Hey guys my name is Ashley and I run one forum of my own. I look forward to hopefully becoming an active member

I had an account on the old Spark Promotion, so I’m glad to be back! Hopefully, I can learn some new strategies from other forum admins to help grow my community.

Hi everyone,

My name is Phil and I am from Liverpool, UK.

Nice to meet everyone

Hello everyone!

I’ve been waiting to get some free time on my hands to sign up, and I’m so glad I finally did! Spark Promotion looks really nice, and it has warm, welcoming vibes.

My main hobbies are gaming and online forums. Even though I don’t have much free time for hobbies right now due to work, I’ll try to be an active participant and get to know the other members here. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me!

Hey everyone, how’s it going?

I’m so happy to be a part of this great forum.

Since I play on a PC, and my library is completely digital, I use online platforms to purchase video games. My favorite one is Steam. It's the most popular one, there are frequent sales, and support is great too.

Let's see how many people prefer the digital copies over physical ones. Share your experience purchasing new games to enjoy.

Nowadays, we can have internet speeds that we are happy with based on what we do online.

I have a family, which is myself and then my four kids, and we are all gamers and enjoy streaming content on Netflix and YouTube, so having internet speeds to keep up with that is essential.

At the moment, I am getting the following

516mbps download
35mbps upload

What speed is your internet?