Tips on how to promote a forum

[Nick]

Some places to advertise your forum
Try support forums Advertise board
http://www.smfsupport.com/support/advertise_your_boardblog-b11.0/

The Showcase board on SimpleMachines.org
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?board=6.0

Add your link on many pages. Big Search Engines listed below
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx

If you visit other forums always list your forum url in your signature.
If you email people list your forum url in the footer or signature section of your email.