What's the best way to start a forum?

Promote it everywhere you can and make it friendly and useful for your users. Invite your friends. Give away something for free or maybe post some contests only for registered users...
 


@schindyguy - thanks for that option. will definitely consider this
@webmaster - yeah, i agree. a giveaway can draw people in -- free android phone through a raffle draw?

I also read that certain webmaster forums provide this service of putting post on forum websites... might be worth looking at this too.