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I have finally put together my science forum. I got help with installing the forum. However, the only thing that is different than my plan is that I am not using forum.scifreak.com. Instead, I purchased a domain name for the forum. I just think that it might be a bit easier to remember if it has its own domain name. I won’t be putting up a link to the forum just yet because I have a lot of work to do on it. However, if anyone does have such a great interest in science that they want to throw some advice at me and want to see what the forum looks like, leave a comment. I have no problem showing a few people, but the forum is not ready for advertising.
The biggest thing I need to think about is what sort of contest I want to do. I know that contests do offer a bit of an incentive to post a lot in the beginning if done correctly. But, I am not sure what sort of contest I should have or what I should offer as a prize. I know that I wanted to offer something similar to what happened on Earners Forum. They offered a free t-shirt that said something about Earners Forum when they got to five hundred posts. It’s a great incentive to get people to post a lot because they want the free t-shirt. I wouldn’t mind dishing the money out for t-shirts. I’ve also been thinking about making pens that have the URL on it as well to offer for maybe two hundred and fifty posts. It costs money, but it’ll really help in getting the forum flowing fast and hard and isn’t that the most important thing? Look for a post next week about the science forum AND the URL!
It takes a lot out of me to write these blog posts. Buy me a beer to cool me off!