Starting a forum, any advice

Question: I’m about to start a forum as a part of an existing site. I’ve never done anything like that. The forum will be related to a few software products.

The fake part of it that works

#1: Be 10 users, ask 10 questions every day, answer as different users, discuss as different users
In this part of world “Flies attract flies not Honey” …Generally will ask queries when they it is active. A bit of kick start is no harm.
I handled some of the larges financial forums (successfully) and the best learning was starting it from scratch.

#2: Don’t forget to integrate it with social media now a days, that is where you will find more fishes.
A lot to talk about when it comes to forums … Also remember forum is what people want when they don’t get anything else but it is not their first preference. Forum is unorganized info, so in long run, you need to organize it too.

Also 2003-2004 was good to start a forum as there were hardly any. Now there are too many, now you need different strategy all together to make it successful.

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