# General Marketing Strategies?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/general-marketing-strategies/69295>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [September 3, 2017, 7:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/general-marketing-strategies/69295 "2017-09-03T19:41:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![8BIT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/8bit/32/76872_2.png) [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 7:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/general-marketing-strategies/69295/1 "2017-09-03T19:41:40Z")

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Unsure if this fits perfectly in this category, but, it is relevant to community-building insofar as without folks showing up you won’t really have an effective forum!

I’m not a fan of marketing, in general, but I have lived long enough to know that the Kevin Costner _if you build it they will come_ strategy isn’t a good one… ever.

 ![giphy-downsized](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/3/2395a8e44249c073069747c6894d7c50e83cf8b4.gif)

Consequently, I’ve been thinking about how best to market, especially the things that we can do that cost **zero** dollars.

Love to start a large thread of what people have done and what they’ve seen work!

(thanks to @HAWK for pushing [me this way](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891/13).)

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