Working as a community manager in the KickCity company I faced a problem how to increase chat/forum/blog activity. The life of CM is not that easy when there are a lot of people in your community. But it's getting even worse when there are no people at all. So I decided to try to involve more people in my community (https://telegram.me/kickcity_chat) and it was not that bad. Now I have live community and I hope it will be even better. So, what I actually did?
There are tips how to increase chat/forum/blog activity:
- If there is no activity create the activity.
This works like that: you create a couple of different characters and start talking to yourself. It sounds crazy, but it actually works. Also, you can ask your friend to help you and talk to your characters if you don't like your own company. People don't like to write the first comment (the first one who comment this post - you are the hero, my friend ). Thus people will see activity and start writing more posts.
- Cross-marketing.
You could find the other forum or blog at the same stage as yours and ask the moderator to write something about your chat/forum/blog. And do the same. Don't use cross-marketing too often not to spam too much.
- Advertise, advertise and advertise some more.
You can choose one big blogger and find some smaller channels he made add campaign before. Pick 4-5 of them with higher traffic and do the add with them. It is better working with a couple of small bloggers than with one big because the coverage of potential users is higher. Note that the subject of their blogs should correspond your theme.
- Create quality content
Provide your users with interesting and informative content. This is simple as ABC. I mean understanding that you need a good content. Creating one is not that easy. However, you could go to the other chat/forum/blog corresponding your subject and find out the most the most discussed treads. So this is going to be your start point.
Do you have any ideas or experience how you are increasing activity in your chat/forum/blog?
KickCity is an existing event platform that focuses on community building and social interactions. We are building a decentralized reward-based event marketing protocol on blockchain.
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