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Originally Posted by SmashinYoungMan

I have the opposite problem. I love to work on the design and technical aspects of my forums, but I loathe marketing. My forums in my sig, despite winning BOTM both here and at vbulletin.com, are completely dead. I keep promising myself that one day I'll get around to properly promoting them, but I never do.

Great work on those designs though. They're extremely well made. Keep in mind that content brings visitors. Visitors won't become active if there isn't a lot to do on your site. Create some articles in the forums yourselves. In your case a unique insight article or promotion might spread a word of mouth that brings visitors. Once people arrive at the site and see there are more interesting articles (topics) they will start participating, and a community is born...