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advertising and promotion how to become big? · **Released**: 03-11-2006

We have a lot of people here who have succeful forums so these are the minds I want to pick.... do you have a advertising budget? is it just word of mouth? incentives to your users to get referals or what?

how do you go from small time to big time?

if you have some success stories that would be great also...

thank you for sharing....

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Adult SEO · #32 07-19-2006, 07:39 AM

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Originally Posted by e2s

I started my first site less than 2 years ago and have 7k+ members I get about 7000 visitors a day. I actually took a different approach to growing my site. I had stickers made up with funny and somewhat offensive sayings on them with my web address on the bottom of it. I then took the stickers and put them on ebay and started selling them. I pay .10 a sticker and on average sell for $1 a sticker. Currently around the world there are over a thousands of stickers and over 3000 t-shirts.

I figure I make money and get free advertising. My large site is www.everything2stroke.com I just started www.everythingmx.com and www.everythingduners.com. I have 6 other sites that will be launched soon.

I used a hack to link my sites user tables so that all my users from my first site have access to my other sites. This eliminates having to grow a site from 0 users and allows current users to access all the sites with 1 username and password.

Hi!

Are you using a MOD to share the user database between multiple forums? Or did you custom build a solution for it?

Best Regards,
Adult SEO

e2s · #33 07-19-2006, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Adult SEO

Hi!

Are you using a MOD to share the user database between multiple forums? Or did you custom build a solution for it?

Best Regards,
Adult SEO

Yeah I have 1 site that I started 2 years ago but wanted to expand but didn't want to start from scratch and the last thing my current members would want to do is register on another site. So I modded the VB code to allow me to use the User Tables and PM Tables from the Master site basically creating a slave site.

I have the instructions posted here

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=118473

Good luck and I hope it helps you out.

MissKalunji · #34 07-19-2006, 05:42 PM

Thanks!

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