BuildPcs Forum Launch Help

[Animachine]

Hey Everyone,

We just launched our new forum, http://www.buildpcs.com

I really want to put it to good use, as I know plenty of people asking questions about PCs, hardware, software etc. I can market to these people but they are mostly friends and family. I also have various twitter accounts for different projects, this being one of them.

Mostly I am just looking for ways to increase some usage, and encourage people to ask questions. We want to provide a community for people to discuss everything about building personalized PCs, and I think it is a great domain. We launched yesterday, and now I am not sure how to spend my time wisely promoting the forum. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,

 

[xpl0iter]

this is a post I wrote as reply for a similar question! I hope you find it helpful!

If I were to run a similar forum these are the stuff I would do!
1. Post lots and lots of articles! Its easy to write how to articles for a computer related niche!
2. Create a dedicated youtube account.
3. Post lots of video tutorials on the basic stuffs, like installing windows xp, installing this, configuring that etc!
4. Make use of your facebook, digg, twitter accounts + create a dedicated account for a few social networking sites.!
5. I guess you're in school, if so, make use of that. Ask your not so close friends to ask their computer related doubts in this forum or its dedicated facebook page/account!
6. If you have money to invest in, buy some twitter followers or facebook likes! This will make your forum look good in the eyes of your school mates!

In the end, you would need a lot of time! So its like do or die scenario!

 

[Animachine]

Thanks for the tips! I've been working on just about every one of those things. The youtube account is one thing I have to work on.

 

[xpl0iter]

nice! 🙂