How do you kickstart a community?

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Very few pple post on my fourms. In fact most of the posts on the forums are from me and my friends. My site gets 30+ new visitors from google everyday but still not many pple are bothered to post stuff, i think mostly coz they see not many pple are posting.

I thought of paying people to post on my fourms, but i cant even find good legitimate sites for that. The legitimate ones i found are extremely expensive like $50 for 100 posts or something. I even bought a bunch of community buidling books but they werent very helpful.

Does anyone know of good sites where to find paid posters? Or if you have any other ways to start your community please share them!