RESOURCES FOR STARTING A FORUM OR ONLINE COMMUNITY

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Pay For Post Services

PostOnMyForum.com

A new community takes time to build because hard earned visitors don’t easily join empty or inactive forums. The key to all web-based communities is activity. If there are multiple forums on the same topic, a visitor will most likely sign up on the one which has the largest number of interesting posts. Hence, hiring posters can become vital in starting a new forum or in stimulating or reviving an already established one.

We provide a team of highly experienced, qualified posters, to post new topics or replies on your forum, message board or community. Each of our posters is selected to match your particular specifications. Our talented and diversified team allows us to provide you with posters who have a genuine interest in your forum's topic. They will join your forum and interact with your members, stimulating discussion and enhancing interest in your boards.

Basic Posting
• 100 posts
• 20+ new threads
• 1-4 posters
• 1 to 10 usernames
• $37

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Forum Booster.net

Top Quality & Affordable Forum Population Paid forum posting is about providing your forum, blog or community a jumpstart, by seeding your site with active conversation & enthusiastic members. From visitors to Google, your site will start getting the notice it deserves!

Starter Boost

• 4-6 Members
• 75 New Posts
• 15 New Threads
• $22.99

ForumAdvantage.com

When choosing a forum writing service, you need the reassurance that you are hiring experienced, professional writers from a dependable company. Forum Advantage has over 200 satisfied forum owners as customers and we have completed over 25,000 posts in the last 2 years of our existence. With our extensive knowledge and posting experience, we are the only choice for your online community. Don't be fooled by the"posting machines" that are only there to add your posts as quickly as possible, but pick the service that will post as a regular user on your board, and give your community quality growth. Remember, not all forum services are created equal.

Tester Package
• 10 Posts
• (7 posts + 3 Threads)
• 1 Writer
• Try Before You Buy
• $5.00

ForumWizards.com

We are a forum posting service with a number of experienced, professional and literate writers around the world. Our"wizards" can provide your forum with a valuable boost. Ranging from professional forum posting to forum advertising, we believe that by offering the highest quality of services we are able to guide your forum to success.

SPECIAL OFFER 10 POSTS FOR $2!
• Available to first-time customers, for only $2 you will receive:
• 10 replies
• 2 new threads

www.wiredflame.com
wiredflame boost having the largest, or one of the largest community of freelance writers, SEO experts, marketing gurus and various other adept writers (over 165) to provide your forum with content. They further state that their writers come from all sorts of backgrounds, are of all ages, and have an all-encompassing level of expertise, enabling them to provide you with a tailored and professional service.

www.forumhelpinghand.com
Forum Helping Hand is the smart and economical choice for building your forum the right way. With access to hundreds of writers, they have people for just about any type of forum on the Internet. These are serious writers. Each post will be intelligent, on topic, and of decent length (no one or two word posts with us).

www.forumelevation.com
forumelevation believes that no forums or communities should be in short supply of content and should be bursting with enthusiastic members. Their aim is to aid webmasters starting new forums or webmasters with already established forums boost their boards. Their mission is to elevate your forum to the next level!

www.bestforumposting.com
Best Forum Posting knows that building a community forum on the Internet can be very challenging and difficult to achieve. People want to enter into a message board that is full of interesting discussions, lively chitchat, and informative conversations. If your forum does not have this, viewers will leave your web site and quickly move on. To avoid this, you can use paid forum posting to increase visibility on the search engines. You simply pay bestforumposting to post on your bulletin board and to make your forum come alive with exciting content and interesting discussions for all to view.

www.idealposting.com
Launching a forum is very difficult since visitors don't stay to become members if they don't see enough activity (no one likes talking to themselves). Paid Forum Posting is a service provided to help launch and maintain an active forum. Writers are paid to visit your forum and post in it. These posts are relevant and bring content and activity to your forum. Once a visitor sees an active forum there is a greater chance of that visitor becoming a member. Paid Posting continues to help you through this process as well as new members are interacted with. Interaction helps them to be converted into long-term valued members. The extra posts if nothing else, adds content to your website. Extra posts cannot be a negative.

Inb0x.com

Starting or reviving a forum community can be a hard and tiresome job. That's why Inb0x offers Paid Forum posting packages. Our packages bring your forum community alive with high quality posts.

Inb0x.com provides a highly experienced team of over three hundred writers to give your site the quality forum posts it needs.

• Bronze Paid Forum Posting
  75+ Posts using 4 or more writers
• Silver Paid Forum Posting
  300+ Posts using 6 or more writers
• Platinum Paid forum Posting
  700+ Posts using 8 or more writers

Paid Posting Central

Our writers take great pride in what they do and they enjoy watching your forum grow. They feel the appreciation and the accomplishment in knowing that they helped you achieve your goals. This is what separates us from other paid posting services out there. We are here with you every step of the way and we have no problem talking to you to find out just what you want.

We take pride in knowing our customers are pleased with the services we have provided, and we expect you will come back time and time again for your posting needs.

• 50 Post | 10 Threads = $15.00
  Ideal to give your site a quick boost in posts.
• 150 Post | 35 Threads = $50.00
  A steady stream of posts to expand your forum.
• 250 Post | 50 Threads = $75.00
  Large stream of posts and threads.

PostingDirect

• PostingDirect has over 1000 forum posters on staff.
• We have the ability to handle jobs of any size, any topic.
• Posters get paid on a Reputation System, so quality is ensured.
• Satisfaction Guaranteed: get your money back on unsatisfactory posters.
• Posters interested in your forum will post and some stay as members.
• You make your own Payment Rates; pay whatever you want!
• Write your own Posting Instructions and change them at any time.
• Live reports with information on posting progress and usernames.
• Live customer support via email, AIM, and phone.
• One Time Fee of only $139 for Life Time Access to thousands of forum posters. Whenever you deposit money into the account, you get all interested posters joining and posting on your forum within hours!

Free Services

AdminFusion.com
PostFusion is a system designed exclusively by AdminFusion.com. Whether your forums are brand new or well established, our system will help you maintain a constant flow of posts in your forums. All you have to do is post on participating forums, and we will handle the rest! No need to search for another owner to exchange posts with or set up a specific number to exchange. You get to choose, whether you would like to exchange 1 post or 100 posts, PostFusion will accept them all. Working together in such a way, we are helping to build active communities. PostFusion is not designed to be your only source of posts, but it will surely establish a solid foundation.

ForumCircle.com
ForumCircle is the premier free forum provider which provides simplicity, speed and reliability of service. Speed and security are our primary goals, not just afterthoughts. This ensures that forums hosted by us are a reliable platform for important community discussions. Check out how speedy we are at Alexa.

Free Resources / Articles/ Tools

The Admin Zone
Message board focussing on online community building, management and administration.

vBulletin.nl
vBulletin users and fans community.

IPB Helpers
Free Invision board support message boards.

Small Boards
A directory similar to big-boards but aimed at smaller forums, that maybe will one day make it to Big-Boards !

Online Community Report
Archive of community related interviews and articles published in a widely read newsletter.

Think Of It
A comprehensive guide to software that powers discussions on the internet.

Community Answers
Question and answers about growing a community online.

The Forum Insider
Bulletin board software and community building news and discussion.

Web Crossing resources
Collection of various articles dealing with community management.

Online Community Toolkit
Thinking about building or hosting an online community? Looking for specific tips, tools and ideas? Start here. The following is a collection of articles that may help inform your work.

Third Party Forum Software Reviews

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SiteGround.Com's extensive review of some of the top free and paid forum software. Meanwhile, you can continue looking at the various forum software application below.

Squidoo: Forum Software Lens
A Squidoo lens about forum software. The goal of this lens is to provide an overview of the best forum software available.

Links to Free Forum Software

Simple Machines Forum -Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes.
Its powerful custom made template engine puts you in full control of the lay-out of your message board and with our unique SSI - or Server Side Includes - function you can let your forum and your website interact with each other.

minibb.com -Obsessed to make a discussion board where you will be the only one boss? Own a web space and install a message board script written in PHP, free open source forum engine everybody can build an online community on: miniBB, standing for "mini-BulletinBoard". Mini forum for big people - that's what "mini bb" is all about. Everything begins with choice, and miniBB is not only your right start for running a special community of the common interest, but also forums holder for ages. Security, speed and stability - they are three S's of our software philosophy.

Lussumo -Lussumo is a wiki, which means that you can edit the pages after you have created an account. But just what is"Lussumo"? Pronounced like bus-you-toe, Lussumo means “love you more”. Mark O'Sullivan started Lussumo in the late 90’s and it originally operated as a secret web forum for designers and programmers. Nowadays Mark uses Lussumo as a launching pad for his various open-source projects. We’ve got some big surprises in store for those who appreciate Lussumo.

CommunityServer.com -CommunityServer has both a free version as well as several paid versions. While I never used this forum software, thier website boasts that Microsoft uses this sofeware to run its online community/forum.

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Paid Forum Software

Vbulletin.com -Vbulletin.com, many people swaer by this software and would not use anything but this software to run a forum. I used to be rigid like that but I learned to be open minded. If someone can teach me a better way of doing something I open to learning and trying.

Forums worth looking at:

warriorforum.com -Better known as the Warriors of Internet Marketing, is where many internet marketing "guru's" began. There are currently 79787 Warriors registered on this very active forum. Great offers, good advice and excellent JV partnerships are forged here. This is must visit forum for anyone doing business online.

DaniWeb.com
This is excerpted from the DaniWeb.com website:

DaniWeb is a massive community of 318,647 software developers, web developers, Internet marketers, and tech gurus who are all enthusiastic about making contacts, networking, and learning from each other. In fact, there are 2,413 IT professionals currently interacting right now! Registration is free, only takes a minute and lets you enjoy all of the interactive features of the site.

Forums.DigitalPoint.com
This is one of the busiest and thriving communities online, for internet marketing and other cyberspace related or business things, today. The forum boast a membership of 160,247,000, with 52,334 Active Members

AbestWeb.com
At 43,410 members they are one of the biggest, if not the biggest forum online just for affiliate marketers..

PHPFreaks.com