Question by codysunfinishedlife: how do you start your own group?
I lost my son and I am trying to start a group in his name to help parents in grief over the lose of a child. How do I promote my group and get it off the ground.

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Answer by ? Lisa
Go to Yahoo groups, start the group, then use the group’s promote feature to promote it by e-mail and on your web site. If you want a tip, after the group is started, edit the description so that it contains as many keywords as possible such as “grief”, “loss”, “support”, etc. That way, when people go to Yahoo Groups and search for groups to join, yours will come up in the search results. After a group has a certain number of members, say 50, you don’t have to worry about promoting it so much – people who find it will join if there are enough members already. What is hard is to launch it so that people don’t come to it and see only a few members and pass it by. One way to help get it off the ground (although some group administrators don’t like it) is to go to other groups that are related to yours and post the link to your group there, along with an invitation to join.

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