Hey Guys!
Instead of just knocking my head on the wall myself. I thought of crowdsource some good ideas if you guys already crossed a stage of initial traction.
If you can, could you share some of the best strategies/tricks/loops that helped to increase the reach of your discourse platform ?
Thanks.
What type of community are you building? That may help others come up with specific ideas that could work for you.
I recommend you reading the advice that appears in this topic: How did you know you could be successful with a forum? 
It’s an discussion forum around ideas and solutions related to UN sustainable goals
One of the main thing we want to focus is urbanisation and public transportation. Imagine your city or street has some problem… instead of Waiting for government to solve this, People could crowdsource ideas and work on themselves
And also people could discuss about ideas that Not tied to a city but generic problems as well.
Thanks for sharing that Sid!
I went to read all those comments. What I understand is it answers the below
But am 
into it that we wanted discourse , and all the features a forum needed is there. Now it’s about how do we make it more active. I know it may be lame or generic question but I would like to listen to someone who was already in a situation like me and a single hack has get the forum grow a lot. It is so clear from discourse that if we can get one user to sign up, the features (threaded replied, badgesand mailing list) going to make him sticky and refer new users.
But before that how do we increase the initial growth?
Out of my impatience, I ran a facebook ad targeting city planners to provide their ideas on public transportation problem. Got 7 signups at a cost of 1-2USD. But I am looking for few more growth strategy buddy…
The very important thing to remember (which not everyone wants to hear) is that you can’t really market a community into being successful. You’re either solving a need or want for people (in which case they’re likely to find you on their own) or you’re not going to succeed.
I’d recommend doing some reading on feverbee.com to make sure you’ve set yourself up to succeed.
Oh thanks Hawk for a wise reminder!
The link you shared seems to have some thoughtful contents to read > How To Build An Online Community: The Ultimate List Of Resources (2013) | FeverBee
Will check it out. And keep experimenting new ways…
Share your finding here. It would be great to know what works for you on discourse.
I test new ways of engaging every single day.
Keep in mind that Discourse is just a tool in your community strategy.
You have to find the right balance between the business objective and the community members needs
Last Rich’s book will put you on the right track as well.
Hi guys,
i noticed that with the https://www.peopledatalabs.com/ api we can get targeted e-mails.
I was wondering if someone could work out a plugin or feature that would invite those targeted emails to the forum ?
Is this doable ?
Best,
我必须说，我同意这一观点。但问题是，什么时候才是开始营销的最佳时机？
嗯。
我认为 Hawk 分享的内容与通常意义上的“营销”毫无关系，正如她指出的：
而一旦你做到了这一点，那么：
因此，所谓的“营销”并不会发生，取而代之的是你构建和管理你的社区。
这里使用的词语很重要，因为它代表了一种思维方式的转变。我曾营销过或见过的社区，几乎都以失败告终。不如换个思路，专注于解决某种需求或问题，这样社区就会成功——不是“增长”，而是真正成功。
所以，当我看到 Jeff @codinghorror 那 16 亿美元的交易时:smiling_face_with_three_hearts:
，而且 Jeff 之前还点赞过我的评论，我就想再次发出这条评论，哈哈。Jeff 居然竖起了大拇指！
使用 Discourse 已经四年了。我们多次成功部署 Discourse，现在正在我们的低代码 SaaS 平台下构建一个创业者社区。能一直使用 Discourse，我感到无比欣喜！这是一个开放的平台！不知道 Discourse 何时会成为下一家独角兽企业！