Forum Milestones

[Shawn Gossman]

I consult with bloggers.

One of a blogger's biggest failures is setting a goal that is unrealistic and too large to complete in a short amount of time.

My main recommendation is to set milestone goals.

This can easily apply to forums, too!

What are milestone goals?

For a forum, it would things like:

• Getting your first member
• Getting 100 posts
• Getting 100 topics
• Adding your first moderator
• Etc.

So, as you can see, these goals are realistic and easy to achieve.

See, with goals, we need to be able to complete them sooner rather than later; otherwise, we will instinctively feel like we are failing. We're human, after all.

So, set milestone goals. Set them smaller at first and increase as you grow.