By Jose L. Gonzalez
Forum Marketing is perhaps one of the best free promotiontools available on line... and yet most new marketers have neverposted a single "hello I'm here".
If this is your case, my friend, you are losing a lot ofpotential free traffic to your site. It doesn't matter what yousell 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, butin 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 waywith using forums to spit up hordes of ads, or to practice awfulspam.
A forum or discussion board should be a place to get along withothers, communicate, interact, learn, and be helpful. Believeme, following these guidelines is the best you can do for yourforum marketing.
The first thing to do when you have something to offer to theworld is look up for forums related to your topic and niche. Themost specialized, the better. Do I have to say the best place tolook is through a Google search? ("your topic" forum).
Register, browse around and see what the folks are discussingabout. Introduce yourself, say: "hello I'm new", or reply to apost requesting for help or advice.
In most forums you are allowed to include a signature file, thisis, a few lines about you or your business... and yes, a link(make it your sales page or newsletter sign up). Whenever youpost, your signature file follows, giving you free exposure toyour product...
If you establish yourself as a helpful guy or gal, you will gettraffic to your site from people who think you can help them.You will also increase your link popularity and chances that asearch engine will find your site. Most forums keep a hugearchive of their threads on line.
This works wonders, specially when you don't have a single redcent to spend.
To your wild success,
Jose L. Gonzalez
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