When I Launch a Forum, How Can I Make Sure I Have Users from Day One?

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Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2016

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Today's question comes from Andy, who is planning to launch a forum on his site. How can he launch it with a big enough pool of users from day one? Andy's site is http://iporada.com/. Andy mentions my post on how to keep a forum active: http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/how-to-keep-a-forum-active. Do you have a question about community forums? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:07.0	Dot com.
0:09.0	Hey, what's up everybody?
0:12.0	Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 742 of Ask Path.
0:15.0	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:17.0	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:20.0	All right, now here's today's question from Andri.
0:23.8	Hi, Pat.
0:24.8	My name's Andrew Boychuk.
0:26.5	And first of all, thank you very much for all work you do.
0:30.3	And I have a website that calls Immigrant Parada.
0:34.6	It's a website for Ukrainian immigrants in America. And I'm planning to launch
0:39.6	a forum soon. And my question is, how do you make the new forum active like first day or
0:49.0	first week? So when people visiting, they don't see like no activities on a forum.
0:55.3	I read your post about how to keep a forum extremely active and there are good
1:02.4	advises and I will use them in the future, but they talk about already active forums.
1:11.7	So my question is like when you, how do you make people be active first day or first week?
1:20.5	Thank you, bye.
1:21.9	Hey, Andrew, thank you so much for the question.
1:23.9	I appreciate you.
1:25.0	And yeah, you're right.
1:26.7	I've had posts and information before
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