How willing are your members/staff to share your URL on other sites?

Do your members and staff actively promote your site without you asking? Do you have to ask people to promote? How willing are they?

I'm having difficult getting people to promote my forum. It's very rare that someone will share a Facebook post or retweet a message, and I don't often see people posting our link on their social media profiles. I know a handful of people have advertised and got one or two members over, but for the most part people generally don't seem bothered. My staff are more focused with advertising, but only a bit more than members.

 

I know what you mean, I have much the same problem with the forums I run. Probably due to the fact they attract people who by and large don't care for Facebook or Twitter, hence don't care to promote the site via either.

 

Legal promotion of the site is a requirement of staff.
Staff who either refuse to promote the site or promote the site by spamming other sites find themselves gone.
If a person isn't passionate about the site and how to make it the best it can be they have no business being staff.

 

Really you can't expect your members to advertise for you they are there to post on your forum and keep it active while the staff are there to help you with the advertisement if they don't help then i would probably demote them because it shows there not commited to helping you with the forum.

 

My staff have never ever helped promote...my members have helped promote and actually got a few members.

 

Not willing at all Sadly all promotional efforts are by me.

 

We have two advertisement pages where our users and staff members can use our banners/buttons to refer new members. Word of mouth is a pretty strong factor of growth for us, then referrals traffic and search engine traffic.

 

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My members are willing to promote my site but I'm trying to set up a network that allows others to exchange promotion by setting up a program with variable promotion. I am negotiating purchasing the ad space on sites that want to be in the program, each month instead of promoting my site, I will cross promote another site within the same program & niche. I want the site owner to gain the income from the space I'm purchasing and potential new traffic from being advertised on another site. I like the idea that everyone has the opportunity to be " seen" by others.

 

I have a few friends promoting my site for me, because I gave them free tshirts with my logo on it, and I told them to spread the word. You need a big community for members to start sharing the URL's on other sites, because it needs to feel like a second home to them. That way they'll like to promote your site.

 

Seeing how we went from 150 daily logins in the past few months to now reaching 180-200 logins per day, I truly believe my members know how to promote the community. I build links from related sites in my niche to help our traffic and attract new people as well. But, as an owner, you have to promote a fair bit to get the traffic flowing nicely. Also, with the help of increased traffic from the search engines, we're seeing a lot of new users per day. So, I guess our hard work is finally paying off and the results are showing. Hopefully we can hit 200,000 posts real soon.

Also, if you don't already have, get banners and buttons made that your members and other webmasters can use to promote your community.

 

I have no Staff apart from me, and as far as I know none of my members have done any Promotion or link sharing and to be fair to them I wouldn't expect them too. They are here to enjoy themselves and chat, not to promote someone else's affairs.

 

I own a gaming forum since 2010 and have been getting some good traffic lately. It was dead for 6-7 months due to me being lazy. I have just get it going again.

T answer your question, no they don't promote unless the content is newsworthy.

 

Actually, they come to us to promote their site for free.

I presume if they like it enough, they will tell a friend or something...

 

Did you lose interest in your forum that made you become lazy?

 

Some of my previous staff help loads. They are really willing and want to get noticed as a good webmaster. However, the more recent people I have hired have not been as willing.

 

There are a few members that actively promote the site. Though, the large majority don't and I can't expect them to. The staff and a few old school users are the main ones that promote the site on a daily basis. Just those few groups are greatly appreciated and I can't ask for more.

 

I have been lucky when it comes to get my members/staff promoting my forums.

There was one in particular which was a very personal project that was so successful that my staff members started to get INFO domains (by the time these were free) with the name of my forum. Some of them created redirection to the forum, some other landing pages with their review about my site inviting people to join.

It was sad that I later lost the domain name empowering such community and never was able to rebuild such a nice community despite I rescued my former domain years later.