Getting a forum posting service for your forums is a very big help at jump-starting your forums. Not only does it fill your forums with out of the ordinary and related posts, it also generates interest in your forums. Further, if your forum is new, your first forum posts would set the tone of your forum.

Therefore it is very important to make sure that you get a great forum posting service and here are five ways to make sure that you do.

1. Ask for a tryout plan. A trustworthy forum posting service will not give you a list of former clients because confidentiality is one of the principles they work with. Most forum owners insist on confidentiality for their own reasons. You can, however, ask for a tryout plan to weigh how they work and how good they are.

2. Choose a forum posting service that has been around for a long time. A new forum posting service might be cost-effective, but you can not be sure that it will be a headache-free experience. Trust only a forum posting service that has been in the market for more than two to three years. This would ensure that everything would run efficiently. You would not have payment problems, as they would have ironed out their payment systems months into existence. The forum posting service would not have problems with their own team of writers. Moreover, you would have a better chance that the forum posting service would have experience in your particular industry and therefore knows how to write about it.

3. Insist on "personality". A good forum posting service usually uses different personalities to differentiate one user from another. If all of your users "sound" the same, it would not be very convincing to the other users of your forum. As such, some would be sober, others would be flippant, while some would blend into the crowd.

4. Check for simple things like grammar, sentence construction and overall post quality. While different personalities should be a requirement for your forum posters, you must also insist on correct grammar, friendliness and posts that are obviously well-thought of. It is, however, normal to have a post of short lengths, or one-word posts, granting that they make up only 5% of your total number of posts. More than that, it just means that your forum posting service has a lazy writer.

5. Always insist on responsive customer service. If you are asking for more information and your e-mails go unanswered for two or more days, then look for another service. If the service would not even respond quickly to a potential sale, you could imagine how they would act if you have problems with their service.

A good forum posting service is admittedly difficult to find. There are a lot of phonies out there who makes promises and delivers garbage. Choose carefully and choose well.