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10 Ways To Create A Popular Online Community
by Bill Brine
An online community could be a chat room, e-mail discussion list, discussion
forum or other technologies that allow groups of people to communicate at your
web site. When you have a popular online community it will increase your traffic
and sales. Below are ten ways to attract people to participate in your online
community.
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Tell your visitors that you post a new, free
offer every day, week or month in your online community. The free offers
should be attractive to your target audience.
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Regularly schedule experts or famous guests to
participate in your online community. You could design it to be a virtual
class or a question/answer session.
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Post testimonials on your web site from people
that have participated in your online community. The testimonials could be
about what people have learned or liked while participating in it.
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Don't allow blatant ads in your online
communities. If people decide to visit your online community and see a ton
of ads they most likely won't be back.
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Post all the benefits of participating in your
online community on your web site. You could write it like you're writing an
ad for a product you're selling.
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Submit your chat room, e-mail discussion list
or discussion board to online community directories. You can find them by
typing " the community type" with the word "directory"
in any search engine.
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Create an e-zine just for people who
participate in your online community. Allow them to subscribe for free. When
they receive each issue, it will remind them to come back and participate in
your community.
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You (the owner of the online community) should
participate regularly. Post information that will benefit the other people.
This will show them you care about your online community members.
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Have plenty of people to monitor your online
community. They could remove postings that turn away people like profanity,
spam and other off- subject postings.
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Your online community should contain user
friendly features, like a search option for archived discussions, easy
posting or chatting options, email updates or digests, etc.
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Bill
Brine is a recognized author of many different articles
relating to internet marketing and online business.
You can find more free articles like this at his website:
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