Archive for February 4th, 2009

Introduction & Help into forums!

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

We at 600Host pride ourselves in our large web hosting community base offering customers the chance to speak freely about our services.

All companies online should offer forums as a way for customers to interact and also build up a strong community.

Promoting forums is not a easy task but with a large customer database behind you this task can be quicker. However, this does not mean people will actually talk over 90% of your customers won’t.

Promotion of your forums are important! Our top tips:
> Make sure you have the best software available for your forums e.g. vbulletin (paid for) or PHPBB (FREE)
> Install anti-spam plugin’s – online communties at the minute are struggling to come to terms with the rise of spam on there forums installing the latest additional plugins can prevent spam sign ups and posts! we all know how terrible these are.
> Let the world know! – Get yourself out there post articles, email customers & certaintly over sell your forum!
> Make it attractive – Nothing worse then a badly designed forum where you are unable to get around correctly.