7 Reasons to Participate in Internet Marketing Forums

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7 Reasons to Participate in Internet Marketing Forums

September 1st, 2007 | 10 comments

I’ve been participating in forums ever since I’ve been online. I can safely say that I’ve made thousands of dollars, in one way or another, as a result of participating in them. Obviously there are many reasons why you should as well. The following are 7 of the best off the top of my head:

1. Name Branding - By helping people out and providing good information, you gain a reputation. With a good reputation comes a following. Whether your “following” is in the form of subscribers, site viewers or blog readers, these guys and gals know what your talking and they won’t be one time viewers. They’ll continue to come back to learn more from you. Being known as the go to guy or gal in your niche or sub niche will bring in repeat customers as well.

2. Link Popularity - Although the links in forums are normally of low weight in the SE’s, they are links and if your site is IM related, they are targeted. If you have hundreds or even thousands of posts, that’s a bunch of targeted links pointing to your site.

3. Special Offers - Many forums, such as the Warrior Forum, have special sections just for special offers. I made several thousand dollars last year just by writing small, informative reports and offering them as special offers on forums.

4. JV Opportunities - If you know your shit it will be noticed in forums. With informative posts and name branding comes Joint Venture proposals. JV’s can be in the form of a simple link exchange or they could be big promotions that bring in thousands!! Whatever the type, forums are a great place for JV’s and if you’re constantly spewing good info, you won’t even have to look.

5. Ideas - Whether you need a good topic for a blog post, or you need to fire up your auto-responder, forums contain thousands upon thousands of topics. The great thing is you can see the number of replies to find out what topics are really hot.

6. Knowledge - I’ve learned a majority of my IM knowledge from Internet Marketing forums. It does take time to realize who is full of crap and who really knows what they’re talking about, but once you do you’ll have loads of great info at your fingertips. The great thing is you don’t have to listen to what one person has to say. You see different views on each topic so if it’s opinionated bull****, it will quickly be revealed.

7. List Building - Whether you offer a free report in the appropriate sections that requires opt-in, or you link a squeeze page to your signature, forums are a great way to build a list targeting like minded people.

So there you have it. Go join the following forums if you haven’t already:

http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/
http://www.whydowork.com/forums/
http://www.conqueryourniche.com/forum/
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/
http://www.webmasterworld.com/
http://forum.weblamp.net/index.php

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10 comments

Courtney Ramirez (8 comments.)
4th September, 2007 at 6:28 am

Great list! And great blog too Josh! I can’t believe I hadn’t found it yet. Thanks for the list of forums….there are some that I hadn’t been to yet!
Josh Spaulding
4th September, 2007 at 6:39 am

Hi Courtney, it’s great to see you stop by. The Warrior Forum is obviously the main one I take part in but I make it a habit to at least lurk in all of them on a weekly basis.

btw, I just replied to the Ghostwriter thread on the Warriors. You didn’t even recommend yourself
Camilo
10th September, 2007 at 5:29 am

Hi Josh great blogs.. I like I hope you can help me promote my Blogs at [removed] .. Thanks…. God Bless.
Josh Spaulding
10th September, 2007 at 5:41 am

Hi Camilo, I always enjoy helping people out when I can, but not when they spam my blog.
Sean (7 comments.)
10th September, 2007 at 11:35 pm

I also use forum to get link to my blog. My favorite forum is probably Warrior Forum also, but I usually lurk around there reading.

Yes you can get decent amount of visitor from forum if you use attractive sig.
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12th September, 2007 at 6:39 am

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Okoji
9th January, 2008 at 11:29 pm

Yes, a very good articles. This is a must read for everyone.
Cheerss.
titan (2 comments.)
3rd March, 2008 at 2:56 pm

I need to agree that forum marketing is really good idea to make money. We also can earn many thing from forum marketing. Its help me a lots!
Internet Marketing Guru
8th March, 2008 at 11:10 am

Yes,

I agree with each and every point what you have mentioned here in this blog. The 7 reasons that you have mentioned are very much true…

Thanks for the wonderful post…
Case @ Internet Marketing Blog (1 comments.)
12th March, 2008 at 8:21 am

Great post.
Everyone should use forums for website promotion.

Although I’m not an avid public forum poster, I generate enough contacts for my network to have an impact on my sites and to strike great JV’s.

If you see these contacts back in private forums, you’ve made it -they already know you- as they tend to be more open there.

If used the right way, public forums can even generate a real traffic surge.