1. Ask friends and family 2. Using Google Alerts, find people speaking about stuff related to your website and leave comments 3. Find the most popular forums

1. Ask friends and family 2. Using Google Alerts, find people speaking about stuff related to your website and leave comments 3. Find the most popular forums for your target users 4. Find the most popular blogs for you target users 5. Join directories as mentioned by @damoncali 6. Follow what is being said in Twitter 7. Look for LinkedIn and Facebook groups I wrote about it yesterday on my blog: http://aymeric.gaurat.net/index.php/2010/tips-to-kick-start-the-traffic-of-your-new-user-generated-content-website/ http://aymeric.gaurat.net/index.php/2010/tips-to-kick-start-...