How to do Forum Marketing to promote New Website, in creative & non-spammy way in WarriorForum?

Create a free report to give away in the War Room and post the link to your site in the report at the beginning and end. Give an answer to a common problem related to the site and if it is valuable enough you will get plenty of traffic.

Key thing is to participate participate participate. Genuinely be helpful. I would stick to the forums that are closely related to your site topic. This way, once you are helpful to someone they are more likely to actually want to read what else you have to say.

Don't promote!!

Put your site in your signature, then contribute value to the forum. People will notice that you are bringing value to the forum, then notice your signature file.

If folks are interested in your signature file, they will follow your links.

The best kind of promotion in a forum is no promotion at all.

Thank you for the response!

I will try giving Free Report in WarRoom.

You're better of just participating in the discussions and building a reputation rather than thinking of your posts as Forum Marketing.

Create useful posts and provide value to the forum, and use your signature space for advertising your site.

If you use #2. Creating a thread for a method of self-promotion it will just get reported and deleted.

PM others and it will get reported if you're spamming people via PM with your products and services

Buy Adspace. It costs money but it makes more money than it costs if you have a good product or service.

My advice would be to use the traditional signature method, but scan the forum for threads where there is a legitimate reason for you to plug your website. For example, if your website is "the all in one guide to joomla web design," look for threads on joomla web design. When you have found these threads, leave a well thought out comment, and mention that when users click on the link in your signature, they will find all kinds of awesome ideas about the topic they are interested in.

Free give aways are always good to start.....

You can also post on your Warrior Forum blog, the rules are a bit more relaxed there, but don't go too crazy with self-promotion.

I don't know how many people read other member's WF blogs though. I guess I seldom have in the past. Does anyone here read the Warrior blogs?

The best promotion comes when you aren't even thinking about. Throw it up in your signature line, and regardless of the thread topic, start contributing and participating.

Though I've not done this I agree with Bill and others that number one would have to be best. I've not tested four but I'm sure those that have can advise.

As far as I'm concerned creating a thread (assuming you mean here and not to give away a report in the War Room) is about as useful as PMing others. I'd certainly hit the report button.

This is where so many people I believe get it wrong. They are in such a hurry to make money, they think they can come here, make a signature, PM strangers or start blatant pitch fest threads and hey presto, watch it roll in.

Think of the "guru's". They sell so much because they have a following. You don't create a following by turning up and pitching products on day one. Get people to notice you, get people to like reading your stuff, get people to realise you know what you're talking about. Then they'll click on your signature.

I think so anyway. I've no idea what traffic goes to the links in my signature.

Create a WSO. Or write articles in the article section of this forum.

Waooo I don't realize this thread has so many response

Thank you for all the feedback and the lesson. I'll start contributing and help other people. I believe this is the best way to do forum marketing.

Do not make posts on this forum with the intention to promote.

Be here to learn new stuff and to teach other people new things they do not know. If you are helpful to those around you, they will notice you for it, and naturally wonder what you are doing. They will look at your signature box.

The best kind of promotion is the kind that develops on its own.

first integrate with the forum community and offer useful information and help. You'll discover you'll still drive an appreciable amount of clicks with your signature while doing this

You could try focusing on posting in threads that are more relevant to your interests, expertise and/or niche. For example, if you are offering offline IM products, then you may want to make your mark in the offline marketing section of the forum.

When posting, focus on the quality of your input. 100 quick posts aren't going to do much for you, or anyone for that matter. 10 excellent, helpful posts will get you a lot more noticed. Look at the Warriors with thousands of posts that are posting helpful information every day - they are hugely trusted and can sell to a lot of people because of it.

Build a reputation of quality over a decent amount of time. After that..the sig is all that's required.


peace, Vegas Vince

You made a great start just by asking these questions. Some newer members just jump in and see how far they can push the promoting before they get called out on it. That is never well received.

Give away so much Free Shizzz!
2nd guess your self on how much stuff your giving out for free!

Best Regards, Mikal Laster

I agree with tpw. Placing link in your signature and genuinely contributing to threads in the forums is a good way to go. If you have money to spare, placing an advertisement in the appropriate forum wouldn't hurt either

Never send PMs to other Warriors to promote your site though -- most won't appreciate it and it's against the rules.

Always seek to add value when posting a message. Sometimes, it will simply be some words of encouragement. Other times, you will share your knowledge about certain topics. Usually, it is a mixture of both. This forum has benefited me on many levels. I am honoured to help others in return.

I would like to ask a quickie question to you all, now that we are speaking about forum marketing. If you are a total newcomer and want to use this method, how can you provide value if you know little on this business?

You can have the best intentions participating and creating useful posts, but if you have no experience in the field, this traffic source will be quite difficult because little people will be interested in your efforts. Or at least its the way I see this myself.

What do you think?

Hi,

when I post every day 2-3 comments in 3-5 niche forums, ist that enough to become 100-200 visitor traffic daily?

Or I need more than 3-5 niche forums for that traffic plus blog comments on 3-5 niche blogs?
This traffic I will monetize with google adsense and amazon products.

best wishes
marco005

Sharing and helping are the two simplest things a person can do that will always come back to them ten fold.

Just my thoughts...

Susan

participate participate participate..... in all honestly genuinely participate in this forum and help people, and give your advice and experiences, build your reputation and trust with everyone in here. What i like about this forum is the fact that your reputation is key for people to even think about buying from you at all

birdi

To cut it short and simple - just add value. Learn from people's threads/posts and you'll soon notice your own value starting to increase. There's so much knowledge and experience in this forum. The more you absorb, the more you can help others. The more you help others, the more they will like you. Then the more they will be interested and respect you. That's really it. Add value, whether it would be an educative post, a free offer, or just sharing about your experiences in general. Someone here is bound to appreciate the value of it. Because you are here spending... no... INVESTING your own time to go through these forums, you are already adding value to yourself. All you need to do is give it back and then people will start to think you're not really a douche. LOL

Personally, I'm fascinated by anyone wanting to market to this forum.
1. As IMers, we know all or most of the tricks.
2. We're jaded and skeptical about anything even remotely trying to sell to us.
3. We think we know better even when we don't
4. We make glittering generalities (Oh wait, that's just me... Or, at least what I'm doing here.)
In short, we're an IMer's worst nightmare when it comes to target markets. (With the caveat that if you have a useful tool, and follow the proper procedures, we're totally the right niche.) It's sort of like trying to learn a new sport, and having a professional team as your first opponent. VERY unlikely to lead to success.
I did a fair amount of lurking before I felt comfortable contributing. I've still only started 1 thread myself. I usually try to contribute to other threads and help where I can. While I have mentioned my sig a couple of times, it's on topic and relevant to the thread. I have not reached anywhere near the reputation of some other warriors (Yes, that's a direct Alexa Smith reference) I hope my posts are viewed in the positive light in which I offer them.
I'm telling you all of this, so you have a feel for where I'm coming from in relation to the OP and advice that has been given here. Thanks.

Jim Waller

Hi,

@MikeTucker, when 3-5 forums and 4-5 related blogs are not enough to get this traffic, more ist not possible it's to time-consuming.

For blog connmenting I will use zemanta, my other traffic sources are article syndicate, forum marketing and sources like yousaytoo or so, who are a little bit set it and forget it, not add groups and fans, dicuss wit other and so on.

Only spray my content over the web to get backlinks and target traffic.

best wishes
marco005

I received over 100 unique visits to my brand new crowd-sourced Amazon review site yesterday. 2/3 of that traffic was from folks interested in posting Amazon reviews on the site.

Guess where they all clicked through from? That's right: my signature.

Now that i think about it, i definitely do get spammy PM's to my inbox about some new revolutionary product that's gonna cure cancer/hiv/the flu/etc. Next time someone does it again i will report them.

At the beginning i came to this forum just because of want to spam my promotion , but i find out that this is really a good forum for me to share and learn about internet marketing.
So i give up to gain traffic here but yet here become a source for me to learn.