How to Take Advantage of Forum Marketing

If you look at most of the most successful Internet Marketers, the one thing they all have in common is how well respected they are within the forums in their particular niche.

This is really evident in the biggest forum online today, the Warrior Forum where threads are often discussing who are the ‘biggest 5 names in Internet Marketing today’. This list changes depending on who starts the post, who writes within it and who is ‘flavour of the month’. This is the cutting edge Forum for all who want to learn about Internet Marketing, eBook products and home based businesses.

Not everyone is a huge fan of Forum Marketing, but those that benefit from the business they have got from Forums cannot praise this enough as one of their top marketing strategies.

I love Forum Marketing and when I started I looked around for teaching products but failed to find what I was looking for. Yes there were one or two products that told you to use Forum Marketing to promote your business, but didn’t explain how to do this without looking like a spammer or an annoying car salesman!

It is sad to see so many people in the Forums thinking they are marketing their product because that is how their mentors told them to do it but they are simply wasting their time. Time is the one thing none of us have enough of so why not use it as productively as you can by using Forum Marketing the way it should be used.

Some of the more new and timid marketers will see others being labelled with the Online Forums as spammers or just being told off and this could easily knock their confidence and make them write off Forum Marketing before they even really get started. My advice would be to become a great student; spend the first few weeks, about an hour each day just watching how others post, how they respond and get a feel for how it all works.

When working within Internet Forums, you really need to master some basic strategies:

The Importance of Forum Marketing

Before you start implementing this strategy in a concerted way, you need to understand the specific advantages and disadvantages (yes there are some) of Forum Marketing. You need to know how to work your time in the Forums effectively.

What to Promote with Forum Marketing

You may already have a product or service you want to promote within the Online Forums, but if you don’t have that, then it is so easy to create your own product or service just by using Forums.

The Best Forums for Your Niche

You cannot just go into Forums and start marketing because that will get you banned. You have to know which forums will be most productive for you. It is all about taking your time to find the right Forum that will give you the best return on your time.

How to Create An Effective Signature

The best and ‘non spammy’ way of effectively marketing in Online Forums is to have a keyword rich anchor text signature. Many people within the Forums have no signature or they have one that is really untidy and unprofessional looking. A Forum Signature is the little bit of text after your post that includes Anchor Text linking back to your website. You need to make your signature attractive, preferably by creating intrigue so people want to click on to see what it is all about. You want it to attract however rather than distract so not too loud and just a subtle call to action for your reader.

How to Establish Yourself as an Expert in Your Niche

It is really important that others posting within the Forum see you as someone of authority, a so called subject matter expert and this does not happen by just visiting the Forums for 10 minutes each week. You have to earn this status by regular posting, giving value, helping others and always offering solutions. This is really important if you want people to buy from you. By working in these forums daily, you will ensure you always remain current with what is going on within your niche. I would suggest that you post on average 5-6 posts per day.