Advertising Bearers of the Word. Help?

[The Hawk!]

Hey guys, Its Dave again. With me and Paradill now trying to get a Chaos Forum off the ground, I have been advertising to try and get us some Publicity... So far I have been Vastly Unsuccessful... My only success coming in the form of Westrider.....

I am a former Grade B Media and Advertising Student at AS Level, So I have a good Idea about what I'm doing, and in all fairness... I have not yet finished my Little Campaign....

What I hope to have up soon:
-A Short Video for Youtube.
-Sig Banners (This may take some Time)
-Posting Proppaganda allover 40k Facebook pages.

Now.... The Facebook pages are Vastly unsuccessful, even the Chaos specific ones Thus meaning I have to expand my Proppaganda spreading to other Forums..... Now... This is were I'd like to ask you.... How do you beleive this will be greeted? I really don't fancy having abuse hurled at me etc. Espescially as I'll give about 100x worse back to the fools who do....

Also, if any of you think you could give me idea's were to post these Ad's, it would be Vastly appreciated!

My Idea's:
Dakka Dakka
B&C
BolS
(Possibly) Mini Wargaming (I'm going to take a shot at asking 'Mini Wargamer Dave and his Notorous Chaos Marines' to join us)

If anyone can think of anywere else, I'd love to here from you!

Dave

[WestRider]

I don't know anywhere else in particular to try, but certainly don't waste time and effort on FaceBook. I know a few people who have been doing promotion for various things, and they all say that basically no one on FaceBook is interested in following links that lead off of FaceBook. We're talking maybe a couple of click-throughs per thousand views.

[Soap]

Just use other forums as a normal member, but have the URL for your forum in your sig, maybe with a banner too. Something eye catching as you make posts.

[zeke]

Sigs would work. Just ask members to post them on their profile on other forums such as dakka, B&C, warsser, etc.

On another note, I'm in. Just starting a Night Lords army, so the timing is perfect!

[Paradill]

Click on my sig zeke, welcome to the fold.

[Ymmot (M.I.A)]

I have sent my warband over there to pillage your stocks of geneseed..

[RedsandRoyals]

Mar 19, 2013 13:29:18 GMT -5 Ymmot (M.I.A) said:

...pillage your stocks to geneseed..

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

Reds

[BG. Foster]

I'll put this on my database site if you guys have a banner for it. My little bit to help promote your forum.

[Ymmot (M.I.A)]

Mar 19, 2013 13:42:11 GMT -5 RedsandRoyals said:

Mar 19, 2013 13:29:18 GMT -5 Ymmot (M.I.A) said:

...pillage your stocks to geneseed..

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

Reds

Yes. Wait, I mean No.

[Narric]

In my opinion, you need content over advertising. People arne't going to be very tempted to join a Forum with little to no content.

You should/could focus on Battle Reports, Conversions, and discussion on other topics.

It also helps if you already have active members, who in most cases are friends with similar interests, and differing approaches to the game and the army.

With all that done, you need to make people who play other armies feel they are welcome. Do your starting members have other armies that they are proud to display on the forum? Is there a place for non-chaos armies?

On the actual forum itself, how easy is it to navigate? Can a member customise their profile to a suitable degree?