Here are some tips to help you get the people to fill in your dating database:

Word of Mouth marketing – the first thing you need to do is to spread the word. Ask your family and friends to create profiles and to invite their friends to do so, too. Word of mouth is a powerful tool that you should utilize.

Do Viral Marketing – Viral marketing, like word of mouth marketing is a powerful tool to drive people to your social networking site or your dating site. You can try creating an interesting or funny video that you can post to Youtube or send as an attachment in an email. A cheaper alternative is to make an interesting, or funny powerpoint that highlights the best features of your site. If the product is interesting enough, people will surely come in droves.

Advertise – Yes, the old ways are some of the most effective ways. Advertising, whether on TV, online via banners on high traffic websites, or on dailies. There’s also text based advertising call Google Adsense.

Affiliate marketing – You can offer existing members some form of incentive, like access a small monetary reward or upgraded account services for a certain length of time for bringing new members to the site. Be careful with this though, as there might be some people who would create fake profiles to get the reward. Be specific with the rules of the affiliate program and it can be a powerful tool to populate your dating site.

Always remember to give people an incentive to join. Free services are always good, with paid services as an option. Make sure your site is accessible, don’t make signing up too tedious by asking too many mandatory questions. One option is to let them sign up with minimum information such as username, email, and password only. You can then ask them to fill up a different form at their leisure for them to get access to all the sites’s features. At least you got them halfway in, and once they see the features of your dating website or social networking website, chances are they will not mind answering a few more questions.

It always takes time to build a community so be patient, and most of all, have fun doing it. If you have fun, it will reflect in the culture of your office, and will filter down to the website and the community you are building as well.

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