Online Marketing – Forums Are More Than Just Backlinking, PR Juice And Google Ranks
If we want to benefit from forum marketing, we must broaden our views about forums and see it in a different light.
Let’s see each forum as a wholesome entity to be treated like our very own website. We can also see it as an important online marketing channel just like Google, Facebook and Yahoo Answers. No matter who owns the forum, we can benefit from it as a leverage.
Some people make FORUMS as their bread and butter. Don’t believe me? Check out the Warrior Special Offers (WSO) section of Warrior Forum (WF). Some product creators make an average of $10,000 a month, REGULARLY. Some members make the same amount just as their side income. Amazing, isn’t it?
WF is a good example of a forum with tremendous opportunities. There are hundreds of thousands of other forums with all sorts of money-making mechanisms, in a multitude of niches.
There are private forums and public forums. Of course there are premium private forums in public forums. Forums grow organically and is a class of its own.
Forums are THE precursor to Facebook. There are hundreds of millions of Forum users since the 1st CGI forum in mid-90s.
Unlike Search Engines and Advertising Channels, we don’t have to own or pay to benefit from forums. To gain Top 10 ranking in Search Engine Results, we have to pay a hefty price in money and time. To win more impressions and Click-Through-Rates, we have to bid higher per click. To win high readership in Article Sites, we need to work very hard by learning to write superb articles. Then work hard again to monitor.
But to gain Top 10 attention in Popular Public Forums, we only need to earn respect by contributing ideas. No need for good grammar, no need for credit cards, no need for SEO stuff and no need for traffic analysis. We don’t need special skills. Just be ourselves. Readers will judge our feelings, character and message. They can judge our commitment to a topic.
Unlike Google, Advertising Channels and Article Sites, forums are places where PEOPLE CAN GATHER freely. They have the same interest and can exchange thoughts as often as they want. Interactions can be very personal to the extend you could often see catfights, horseplay, jokes, fun, sharing and a lot more.
So do you see the potential of FORUM MARKETING? It’s too obvious. One example is, you can garner a following for a lot of things. You can brand your product subtly and even brand yourself as a person.
One example. Check out how WSOs in WF get fantastic reviews. Initially, many forum users are just lurkers. Then they became customers. These customers later on became friends. Later on they may become subscribers and loyal customers. In time, the customers become affiliates promoting products. And sooner or later customers will churn out their own innovative products. Did you noticed the evolution or transformation? There are more opportunities than just this one example.
So, do you now see the enormous benefits you can reap from Forums as an Online Marketing channel?
Two very important parts of Forum Marketing are your PROFILE LINK and SIGNATURES. If ever signatures are not allowed, your Profile Link is never prohibited. You can even put a description and a photo in your profiles.
We can discuss the HOW of Forum Marketing later. Lots of people can figure them out already after reading this article.
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