Lana Robinson
"Most People Would Rather Avoid Trying...and Be Right,
than Take Action and Be Wrong.
Do You Want To Be Right or Rich?"
"Action = Mistakes & Success = Wealth"
Forum Marketing
I covered this in Day3 when we talked about Signature Marketing and I'm here talking about ita AGAN. Why? Because you should be making posts in forums every day or every other day. This works!
Signature Blocks In Online Forum Posting
So what is a Forum? A Forum is an online community and discussion forum for internet users. Forums are often stomping grounds for the best Internet marketers on the planet. A Forum is a training ground for thousands of up and coming Internet marketers. A Forum is a place to share ideas, find answers, make friends and develop partnerships. A Forum is an organic, always growing, support resource for your entire Internet marketing business. In addition to all of this, Forums are *great* places to PROMOTE your website!
In reality, a Forum membership is more valuable than all the Internet marketing eBooks, training programs and membership sites you could ever join. In fact, most of the people publishing Internet marketing eBooks, training programs and membership sites are active forum members!
It is said that if you want to become successful in something, you should hang around people who are already successful in that particular endeavor. If you plan to be a successful Internet marketer, there is no better place in the world for you to hang out than a Forum.
(REMEMBER NOT TO GET CAUGHT UP IN FORUMS FULL OF PEOPLE COMPLAINING AND TALKING ABOUT NEGATIVE THINGS - YOU SHOULD LEAVE IMMEDIATELY IF YOU FIND A FORUM FULL OF THOSE PEOPLE - IT WILL JUST DRAG YOU DOWN!!)
Everyone in MOST Forums share a common goals to make money on the Internet. As you start participating regularly in a Forum, you'll find yourself learning faster and earning more.
Find some relevant and interesting forums.
Simply go to your favorite search engine and start looking for Online Business Forums.
Sign up for an account.
Simply follow the instructions provided on that page to sign up for your account now. After you create your free account, be sure to save your Forum usernames and passwords in a safe place. Once your account is created, login and take your first look at the forum.
Inside the Forums, you'll notice the many different sections, familiarize yourself with them. Feel free to complete all the fields of your Forum profiles as desired including: "Hobbies", "Latest News", "Favorite Quote", "Bio", etc. Adding this info will allow other members get to know more about you. This is not required, but it's a great way to present yourself to the forum community.
The most important field (for marketing purposes) inside your profile is the "Signature" field on the right-hand side of the page.
Setup your Sig file in your forum account.
What's a sig file? A sig file is an ad placed at the end of each of your forum posts.
Sig file ads in the forum are immortal. In other words, they can remain active and produce profits for you forever. Even when a discussion (thread) is no longer being actively posted to, it remains in the forum archives forever. These archives are often indexed by Google and other major search engines and discussions that you've participated in are often found by people using the search engines.
I'm going to give you the exact same ad I use in my Forum sig files to pull in sales every day. Once you set this up, the ad placed at the bottom of all your forum posts will look just like this:
(Use your own "ad copy" - you don't have to copy the above sig file)
Remember if you are in a non-business forum, you will want to relate to people that might be interested in working from home. You can use the PS from our early signature block:
Lana Robinson
205-919-9561
P.S. I'm currently looking for people to partner with to expand my new Internet business. Full training is provided. Check out my site for details at:
http://JoinRichandLana.com(I like to put my phone number in my signature files so that people can call me too, but it's up to you if you want to omit that and just put in your website.)
Post, Participate and Contribute to a forum.
What's a forum post? A forum post is when you respond to a discussion in progress (also known as a thread) by typing a response and submitting it.
The Forums contain thousands of discussions in progress.
A discussion starts when someone makes an original post. Then, people start responding to that post to create a dialogue. One person might respond to the original post, another person might respond to the person who responded and someone else might respond to that person's post. A forum discussion is a great way to see many different sides of an issue because everyone gets to share their information and respond completely to a topic without being interrupted.
You should also notice that some people reply to the discussion more than once. In fact, some people stay tuned into the discussion and post replies whenever appropriate. Forum discussions can go on for days, sometimes weeks.
When you post to a discussion in a forum, your response will be included as part of the discussion. At the end of your response, your sig file ad will appear so that everyone who reads that thread in the future has the opportunity to see your ad.
As you will see by reading through pages of replies, most of the posters have a signature file ad at the bottom of their post. So, these people are responding to the post by sharing information and promoting their business at the same time. That's exactly what you need to be doing! :-)
The more you post in the forum, the more inbound links you'll get to your website. The more inbound links you get, the more visitors you'll attract. The more visitors you attract, the more sales you'll make. It really is that simple. Like I said before... NOT rocket science.
In addition, many non-Forum members actually do access forum archives through the search engines and other inbound Forum links so as long as you have been participating regularly in Forum discussions, you have a great chance to pull in steady prospects through your capture page from the Forums. I do, and you can too.
Before you start participating in the forums, let's discuss what participation means.
In a nutshell, it means contribution.
Within the Forums, there are *thousands* of discussions in progress RIGHT NOW. Within each of these discussions are many people posting and adding their own thoughts to the discussion. And, while their posting and adding their own thoughts to the discussion, they are also automatically promoting their business through their forum signature file ad. This is what YOU need to start doing right now!
After you take a look at all the sections available inside the forum, it's time to consider how to put a Forum to use for you. My goal is for you to make as much money as possible with your business.
You can start participating in all forums. However, the "Main Discussion" sections usually get the most activity so I urge you to spend the majority of your time there for now. Remember, my goal is to help you make the most money possible from your efforts and I'm guiding you accordingly.
Make at least 25 posts today. Yes, make AT LEAST 5 new posts today as responses to 5 different discussions in progress.
The thing to remember now is that you are in the up-start marketing stage of your business right now. To make money, you need to spread the word about your business to as many people as possible.
That's it.
Every time you make a post in forums, your profit pulling ad will be placed at the bottom of your post for everyone to see. Welcome to the exciting world of forum marketing!
Forum Etiquette and Manners
It's very important to realize that your post itself should NOT be an advertisement. You are participating in the forum to add value to the discussion itself. Then, like leaving your business card for people to pick up, your signature file ad will be available for everyone who is reading the discussion to see and take advantage of if they want to. If you post ads within the body of your itself, your post will probably get deleted by moderator and other Forum members will not take you or the offer in your signature file seriously.
Think about it as you're walking into someone's living room into a group of people that have been talking for 3 hours together. You then walk to the center of the room and yell at the top of your lungs:
"WHO WANTS TO BUY MY STUFF???"
How well would that go over with the group? If you won't do it in a face-to-face situation, then it's probably not appropriate for a forum post. So the main key to realize is to be yourself and contribute naturally to forum discussions.
Never post with the single-minded attention of getting your signature file ad seen. Post consistently with the purpose of adding value to the community. In fact, when you contribute to the forum, people will start appreciating you and some will naturally respond to the offer in your ad.
Feel free to use similar posts in multiple different forums, which will allow you to save time of writing and reading. Sometimes I like to start a new forum with some content, or a question, and put it in a few different forums. Make sure to return back to respond to your new forum contacts.
(REMEMBER NOT TO GET CAUGHT UP IN FORUMS FULL OF PEOPLE COMPLAINING AND TALKING ABOUT NEGATIVE THINGS - YOU SHOULD LEAVE IMMEDIATELY IF YOU FIND A FORUM FULL OF THOSE PEOPLE - IT WILL JUST DRAG YOU DOWN!!)
