Forum Marketing is perhaps one of the best free promotion
tools available on line... and yet most new marketers have never
posted a single "hello I'm here".
If this is your case, my friend, you are losing a lot of
potential free traffic to your site. It doesn't matter what you
sell or promote on line, if you are not using forums regularly,
then you are throwing money on the wind.
You may have heard a lot of blah blah about forum marketing, but
in fact, the basics are quite common sense and easy to apply.
Before I go on, however, I must say I don't agree in any way
with using forums to spit up hordes of ads, or to practice awful
spam.
A forum or discussion board should be a place to get along with
others, communicate, interact, learn, and be helpful. Believe
me, following these guidelines is the best you can do for your
forum marketing.
The first thing to do when you have something to offer to the
world is look up for forums related to your topic and niche. The
most specialized, the better. Do I have to say the best place to
look is through a Google search? ("your topic" forum).
Register, browse around and see what the folks are discussing
about. Introduce yourself, say: "hello I'm new", or reply to a
post requesting for help or advice.
In most forums you are allowed to include a signature file, this
is, a few lines about you or your business... and yes, a link
(make it your sales page or newsletter sign up). Whenever you
post, your signature file follows, giving you free exposure to
your product...
If you establish yourself as a helpful guy or gal, you will get
traffic to your site from people who think you can help them.
You will also increase your link popularity and chances that a
search engine will find your site. Most forums keep a huge
archive of their threads on line.
This works wonders, specially when you don't have a single red
cent to spend.
To your wild success,
Jose L. Gonzalez
About the author:
"How to -without the big time hype- set up
a website, promote it and walk down to the
bank for real, cold, Internet Money!"
http://www.marketin
g-master-course.com
By: Jose L. Gonzalez
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