Forums are a Gold Mine

Forums are a gold mine.
This form of marketing will take a lot of time however it is free or very low cost and has been tested. I have used this method every day. I will go over how to market your business this way, but you must possess the following characteristics;
1. You must be willing to learn special techniques.
2. You must some time to do this and be consistent with your efforts.
3. You must be good at solving problems and building relationships.
4. And most importantly, you must be persistent and patient.

Why a Forum?
Forums are one of the most effective free internet marketing strategies if done correctly.

• They are usually FREE.
• You can sell product/service to new friends
• You can easily find a community discussing what you are interested in.
• You can get lots of valuable information.
• You can market yourself as an expert.
Many people participate in online forums for different reasons. Especially in internet marketing forums, they use it for getting advice and answers to their questions.
Another reason is finding new tools, products and marketing concepts that they can apply to their website or online business in general. Internet forums are also an excellent resource for contacting with other online entrepreneurs and build win-win and profitable joint ventures. Finally, you can promote your website in forums in indirect mode of course.
Message Boards/Forums are a "newbie" paradise, where people post a public note in an effort to elicit a private response or information about relevant websites. They are long term powerhouses for generating visits to your sites through the time honored route of friendship. Lots of times topics on the message boards get added to search engines, and your post can become highly visited!

Most forums allow a person to add a signature file to their posts. My signature file looks something like this:

“Instantly be in a money position with a secure company and phenomenal product line. [url=http://www.gas.greenstacks.com/]Click below![/url]

“The mom whose has 3 boys & a burned down garage. Read my story here: [url=http://www.gas.greenstacks.com/]Click below![/url]”

You can use something similar just put your website where mine is!


Use this forum tool – to help you go from forum to forum. It is an easy & free download

http://mybestadviceis.com/desktopforumbuddy/download.html

If you are wondering where to find good forums to post in – this forum tool has several forums already built in – you just need to go in and register for the forums and begin posting. This tool has saved me hours of time.

Here are some of the forums that I post in: (Keep in mind that there are several thousand forums on the internet…they come and go – when you are looking for forums to post in be sure to look and see when the last time they were posted in and how much traffic they have on a daily/weekly basis.)

http://www.able2know.com/forums/index.php
http://www.businessknowhow.com/forum
www.Ewealth.com
http://www.HomeBusinessOnline.com
http://www.SelfStartersWeeklyTips.com
www.sybermoms.com
http://www.akamarketing.com/webmaster-forums
http://www.wickedfire.com/index.php
http://www.WorkAtHomeForum.com/forums/index.php
www.InternetBasedMoms.com
http://www.conqueryourniche.com/forum/
http://www.marketingchat.org/forum
http://www.whydowork.com/

You generally want to average posting in 20 forums every day. This will get you well known and people will began to respect you and start going to your website via your signature! For example, I put my website in my signature line and got 2 hits within a couple of hours after first exploring forums. Now to some of you that may seem like nothing, but if you put interesting content up, people begin going to your website. That is just one of the techniques I used with my http://gas.greenstacks.com website and it is now paying off!