10 Ways To Create A Popular Online
Community Daniel J. Lesser

An online community could be a
chat room, electronic mail discussion list,
discussion forum or other
technologies that allow groups of
people to communicate at your web
page . 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 of price 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
develope it to be a virtual class or
a question/answer session.

3. Post testimonials on your web
page from all the people that have
participated in your online
community. The testimonials could
be about what many people have learned
or liked while participating in it.

4. Do not allow blatant ads in your
online communities. If people
decide to visit your online
community and see a ton of ads
they most definately will not be back.

5. Post all the benefits of
participating in your online
community on your website . You
could write it like youre writing
an ad for a item youre selling.

6. Submit your chat room, email
discussion list or discussion
board to online community
directories. You might 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 of price . 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 understanding that
will benefit the other people.
This will show them you care about
your online community members.

9. Have plenty of many people to
monitor your online community.
They could remove postings that
turn away everybody like profanity,
spam and other off- subject
postings.

10. Your online community should
contain brain friendly features,
like a search option for archived
discussions, user friendly placing or
chatting options, e mail updates or
digests, etc.