10 Ways To Create A Popular Online Community

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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.


1. 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.


2. 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.


3. 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.


4. 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.


5. 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.


6. 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.


7. 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.


8. 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.


9. 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.


10. 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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You could publish any positive reviews you have
received about your free e-zine on your web site.
For example, you could say, "Just read this review
from (publication name) about our free e-zine!"
Another example, "Check out our e-zine review in
(magazine name)!"


Organize your web site into categories. Visitors
won't get frustrated and leave your site because
they can't find what they're looking for. For example,
you might organize it with links on a side bar: Home,
About Us, Free E-zine, Free Articles, Free E-books,
Free Affiliate Program, Chat Room, Guest Book,
Message Board, Contact Us, etc.


Make your product offer very rare. People
perceive things that are rare as being more valuable.
You could use a limited time offer or free bonuses.
For example, you could have a countdown timer on
your web site and say, "Order in the next 5 minutes
and get 6 free bonuses!"


Trade advertising with other businesses to save
revenue. You could trade e-zine ads, banners ads,
links, print ads, etc. If the other business doesn't
want to trade, offer them something extra in return.
It could be extra ads, free products, commission,
extra advertising time, etc.


Have some mugs imprinted with your web site
address and other business information. Use them
when you have company or give them away to
friends and family as gifts. You could donate some
to the local coffee shops and increase your web site
exposure.


Write your ad copy like you're talking directly
to your visitors. Use the words "you", "your", and
"you're" a lot in your ad copy. For example, many
headlines have "you" in them because it looks and
sounds more personal, like "How You Can Lose
(no.) Pounds In (no.) Days!"


Give your visitors an instant article directory. Tell
your visitors they can instantly add a free article
directory to their web site by linking to yours. Just
place your ad or banner ad on top of the article
directory for your main web site. You could also
have your own article in a prime position for
republishing.


Provide your visitors with free content. Your
content will be more attractive to your visitors if it's
up-to-date or original. You could also offer people
the option to reprint the content in their e-zine or
web site. If your content is super original, you could
use something like "Never Seen Before" in your titles.


Make your ad copy attractive. Your ad should
list benefits before the features. Include guarantees
and testimonials in your ad. Your ad should be easy
to read, answer all the readers’ questions, give them
many ways to order and, most importantly, persuade
them to buy now, not later.