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🗓️ 8 May 2015
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Today's question comes from Warren, who is planning to start a forum. How can he encourage users to contribute when the forum is still new and doesn’t have a lot of content? Warren’s site is http://www.thesuperblife.com/. Fizzle does a great job managing their community (http://fizzle.co/), as does Darren Rowse from Problogger (http://www.problogger.net/). Steve Kamb institutes challenges to keep his community engaged (http://www.nerdfitness.com/) Do you have a question about forums and Facebook? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.
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0:00.0 | What's up, Ask Pat. |
0:09.2 | What's up, everybody, Pat here, and welcome to episode 339 of Ask Pat. |
0:15.3 | Thank you so much for joining me today. |
0:17.2 | All right, let's get to today's question from Warren. |
0:21.1 | Hi, Pat. This is Warren again from the Super Life blog, where anyone can reinvent themselves to improve relationships and do things that matter to others. |
0:31.8 | I say the word again because if by any chance this question gets chosen, it would be my second one in your Ask Pat show. |
0:39.3 | Thank you for answering my previous question, by the way. You help me out more than you know. |
0:44.3 | Also, there's no need to send me another free shirt. I much rather that you donate it to someone else instead. |
0:51.3 | Anyway, here's a question that I hope you can help me with as well. |
0:55.6 | I want to start a forum. I'm not sure if you ever started one, but I always wondered how |
1:02.0 | someone encourages others to post messages or questions on a new forum that doesn't have a lot of |
1:08.7 | content yet, since it's still new. |
1:11.7 | Thanks, Pat, for your time and keep doing what you do. |
1:15.5 | Hey, Warren, thanks for your second question, and I'm so happy to feature it here again, |
1:19.4 | and I appreciate what you said about donating the shirt. |
1:22.7 | We'll definitely do that. |
1:24.0 | So to answer your questions, yes, I have started a forum of my own, and it is a |
1:30.7 | very difficult thing to manage, I will say, especially if it's on your own site away from other |
1:35.1 | sites where people are already. For example, and I'm hinting at Facebook groups and Facebook |
1:39.6 | communities and LinkedIn groups and those sorts of things, which are social platforms that people are |
1:44.9 | typically already on and they'll get notified and they don't have to sign up for something new |
1:49.7 | and they're already active there. A lot of them are active there anyway. The Facebook group that I have |
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