Promoting a forum

I am planning a forum contest where the prize is a 3-month advertisement on top of my forums. The top 3 would win and their ad will be randomly shown on top of the forum.

With this I also have a contest of the first 5 to reach 50 posts would have their ad randomly shown below the forum.

I don't know if these are good ones.

This is the link if you are confused.

http://www.webmasterforumph.com/index.php?topic=172.msg578#new


Give me comments!! :)

As this thread is mostly to promote your contest, I have moved the thread to the advertisements board.

Now regarding the prizes I am not sure if this will work. People like more contests with money prizes or something that have value.

Advertisement is very cheap in our days, and the fact that you offer advertisement on a webmaster forum makes the interested people less (I mean there are not so many people that have something webmaster related to promote)

Anyway good luck with your contest ;)

Well its not really about promoting the forum. I wanted to ask since I found a post regarding contests in this forum. I wanted to ask if this kind of contest would be good.

Should I drop the contest or not?

Dropping the contest will be worse than a unsuccessful contest because it can harm your integrity.

My opinion on contests is to give away something that has real value for the members. For instance as your members are mostly webmasters you could give a few domains or hosting. As the price of those give aways going bigger expect more activity in the contest.

Of course the best is to give money prizes. Cash is like a magnet to people :)

lol magnet. $_$

I can't really pay since I don't like using paypal. I may try to use hosting as part of my contest. Cool!!!

Thanks as always, Nikolas