| Webmasters believe that a lot of money can
be made off of discussion forums for several reasons. The main
reason people see a lot of money in them is because they have
an enormous amount of page views and return visitors. It is
very difficult for a normal website to get those two things
and very easy for discussion forums to get them. People focus
on that and rush to start up a discussion forum only to give
up and let it die after a short period of time. The reason
is because many people do not take into consideration how important
actual signups are. A lot of people will go to a forum everyday
and read through things but never sign up. If people do not
sign up the forums are worthless.
Something that can be done to entice people to sign up are
offer rewards for those that sign up. You can also have a
posting contest by giving away something to the first person
to reach a certain number of posts. Another thing is to start
a controversial thread that will force people to sign up
and participate in the discussions. No matter what you decide
to do to get people to sign up try and make sure that it
is planned out before starting the forum. If you think about
that after the forums have been started it may be too late.
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