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What is your best forum marketing strategy?

by Syamsul Alam
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I've hang out in this forum for about five days... (Even if I'm joining this forum two years ago)

My initial intention is to practice forum marketing strategy that I already know and put it into action.

I read some post here, some thread, and I know that there is demand for affiliate marketing, and since I'm an affiliate marketer (who want to be product owner) I create my product based on demand here, set up my squeeze page, payment system, and ask for improvement in my sales letter.

My forum marketing strategy is to build trust here. My day one goal is to create 15 post before I start putting my first signature file. It is quite fun and addictive, so I stretch my goal to 25 posts before I start making my first signature and pitching on my signature.

Okay, all done...

Next step: I'm creating thread where I leak chapter one of my product, creating more thread where I leak the essence of my free report. I bump my thread by adding more valuable content (because that is the ethical way to do) and reply on any question.

For this afternoon only, I already got 6 downloader for my free report (yes I track every link of mine that I put in this forum). And I can say that it is quite success even if I still not generate any sales.

I already have some ideas on how to improve my marketing that I'll implement later.

Even if I don't quite satisfied with the result (I haven't generate sales yet) I'm still glad and willing to move on (hopefully with more success in the future).

Actually, I kind of expecting this (low sales) to happen because in this forum, user are mainly marketer and usually marketer can not sell to another marketer.

Well... that is my forum marketing strategy. Now, how you do your forum marketing strategy? Any ideas will be great!
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Morgan
    Don't spam.

    Post useful posts.

    Help people out with knowledgable answers,

    remebering that once upon a time you were in their boat and beginning out.

    Gosh that seems such a long time ago.
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    • Profile picture of the author Syamsul Alam
      Originally Posted by Matt Morgan View Post

      Don't spam.

      Post useful posts.

      Help people out with knowledgable answers,

      remebering that once upon a time you were in their boat and beginning out.

      Gosh that seems such a long time ago.
      Guys, stick to Matt's advice...

      If you spam, your account will be banned. If you are smart marketer, you think in long term. So don't spam and have a healthy account. That's good for your profits.

      Useful post is kind of subjective, but I agree... If you post valuable post, people are more likely to click your signature. If you help people, people are more likely to help you.
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      • Profile picture of the author TBInternetMarketing
        Yes it's all about building trust and offering quality advice. I know from personal experience if someone give a great piece of advice I will look down and see what else they are offering.
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      Originally Posted by Matt Morgan View Post

      Don't spam.

      Post useful posts.

      Help people out with knowledgable answers,

      remebering that once upon a time you were in their boat and beginning out.

      Gosh that seems such a long time ago.
      Spot on as always Matt. Listen to this advice.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dash Evra
    So far, I notice the threads that get the most views and replies are the ones designed to give valuable informations, success stories, "how to do what i did to make money" etc...

    So, I guess the smart thing to do to get some trust and a good reputation here is simply by sharing what you know.
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    Strategy:

    1. Pay attention
    2. Participate
    3. Only answer questions you know the answer
    4. Get noticed
    5. Stand apart from the crowd
    6. Make em laugh
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    • Profile picture of the author AlexNeill
      I agree with PTW make em laugh!

      I dont have a strategy for forum marketing, I just try to help and make some friends along the way.

      Alex
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      • Profile picture of the author Syamsul Alam
        Originally Posted by Dash Evra View Post

        So far, I notice the threads that get the most views and replies are the ones designed to give valuable informations, success stories, "how to do what i did to make money" etc...

        So, I guess the smart thing to do to get some trust and a good reputation here is simply by sharing what you know.
        You are correct. If you post something valuable, people will love it, and they'll response to say thank you or develop your ideas. But you also must put good title on your thread to get maximum clicks.

        Originally Posted by tpw View Post

        Strategy:

        1. Pay attention
        2. Participate
        3. Only answer questions you know the answer
        4. Get noticed
        5. Stand apart from the crowd
        6. Make em laugh
        Nice addition tpw... I'm trying to get noticed and stand apart form the crowd at the moment. I have little difficulties in making people laugh though... I don't really good at joking.

        Originally Posted by AlexNeill View Post

        I agree with PTW make em laugh!

        I dont have a strategy for forum marketing, I just try to help and make some friends along the way.

        Alex
        You already have strategy. You put your link in signature right? That is your strategy. You just don't try to maximize it.

        It is good to get some friends. But I'm marketer also. I try to getting click as well as friends. That's just the way I do thing.

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      Originally Posted by tpw View Post

      Strategy:

      1. Pay attention
      2. Participate
      3. Only answer questions you know the answer
      4. Get noticed
      5. Stand apart from the crowd
      6. Make em laugh
      What Bill said.

      Plus:
      7. Be helpful
      8. Be respectful
      9. Stay out of the line of fire
      10. Cite references when applicable, including a link to reference if appropriate.

      -Anita
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      • Profile picture of the author tpw
        Originally Posted by AnitaCross View Post

        What Bill said.

        Plus:
        7. Be helpful
        8. Be respectful
        9. Stay out of the line of fire
        10. Cite references when applicable, including a link to reference if appropriate.

        -Anita

        Anita: I hate to disagree with you in public, but...

        #8 and #9 are sometimes rules.

        On #8, be respectful to most people, but know when it is okay to stand against idiots and show some character and backbone to show people who you are, by demonstrating who you are against.

        On #9, do stay out of the line of fire when you are clueless and do not understand why you believe what you believe. When you see an opportunity to stand in the line of fire to better define who you are and why people should like you, if you calculate the risks to be in your favor, jump in with both feet.
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        • Profile picture of the author AnitaCross
          Originally Posted by tpw View Post

          Anita: I hate to disagree with you in public, but...
          But you disagreed respectfully...

          However, the question is "What is your best forum marketing strategy?" and MY best forum marketing strategy includes not getting in between you and the idiot(s) du jour!

          Maybe once I've been on the forum for years, have thousands of posts and hundreds of thanks, both given and received, my strategy will include the occasionally ass-whoopin'.

          Maybe.

          Maybe not.

          Playfully,
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrea Wilson
    I think you are in the right track. I have not came up with any solid strategy for forums but I just help others when they in need of answers to their problems.

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    • Profile picture of the author Syamsul Alam
      Originally Posted by Andrea Wilson View Post

      I think you are in the right track. I have not came up with any solid strategy for forums but I just help others when they in need of answers to their problems.

      Andrea
      Not much forum user who willing to spare their time to post useful post to help others. I think you already got good strategy and in the right track too.

      Judging by number of post that you already have, you must be already got sales on your product or service or at least subscribers on your list right?
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      • Profile picture of the author Keith Everett
        Come into this forum on a regular basis

        Get known for:

        1) Posting valuable tips & advice
        2) Helping people with problems
        3) Occasionally giving away a really useful free report.
        4) offering a really useful product free in the signature
        5) contacting great posters and asking them to guest blog

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          Originally Posted by kweb777 View Post

          Come into this forum on a regular basis

          Get known for:

          1) Posting valuable tips & advice
          2) Helping people with problems
          3) Occasionally giving away a really useful free report.
          4) offering a really useful product free in the signature
          5) contacting great posters and asking them to guest blog

          Keith
          Your strategy just hit me Keith. I just click your link to get your report. I'm looking forward to know what's inside your free report.

          Your last point is really interesting. That is definitely good way to build traffic and list. I just got really cool strategy today. Thanks for sharing!

          Cheers...
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          • Profile picture of the author Keith Everett
            Originally Posted by alampintar View Post

            Your strategy just hit me Keith. I just click your link to get your report. I'm looking forward to know what's inside your free report.

            Your last point is really interesting. That is definitely good way to build traffic and list. I just got really cool strategy today. Thanks for sharing!

            Cheers...
            You are very welcome

            Vice versa Syamsul, I have just downloaded your very cool report..

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              Originally Posted by kweb777 View Post

              You are very welcome

              Vice versa Syamsul, I have just downloaded your very cool report..

              Keith
              I never knew that there is video creation service like animoto. I try its 30 seconds video, put a nice music, and I got quite cool looking video made.

              I'm not quite satisfied with the time length though... 30 seconds is just too short. Well, but what can I say, it's free after all.

              I check your youtube channel too. You got good video that made from animoto right? Your traffic strategy using facebook picture also good. But I think I won't use that traffic strategy because too time consuming (finding picture, ask for their permission, tag them, and I'm not quite convinced with the result)

              It is always easier to turn my report into slide show, and spread it via scribd. Or using existing report and submit it to ebook directory.

              That give me nice targeted traffic in competitive keyword phrases. Perhaps you'll try it in the future because your free report is as cool as mine.
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          • Profile picture of the author Keith Everett
            Originally Posted by alampintar View Post

            Your strategy just hit me Keith. I just click your link to get your report. I'm looking forward to know what's inside your free report.

            Your last point is really interesting. That is definitely good way to build traffic and list. I just got really cool strategy today. Thanks for sharing!

            Cheers...
            You are very welcome

            Vice versa Syamsul, I have just downloaded your very cool report..

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    Typically, tpw, AnitaCross, and kweb777 hit the strategies you need to use. Especially with tpw’s third tip. Don’t try too hard in answering the questions especially if you're not knowledgeable about it. Although you can use references, interpretation may be different unless you’re an expert on that field or experienced the same thing. Just answer what you know and be an expert on it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Syamsul Alam
      Originally Posted by JonAlfredsson View Post

      Typically, tpw, AnitaCross, and kweb777 hit the strategies you need to use. Especially with tpw's third tip. Don't try too hard in answering the questions especially if you're not knowledgeable about it. Although you can use references, interpretation may be different unless you're an expert on that field or experienced the same thing. Just answer what you know and be an expert on it.
      I know pretty well that being smart-ass in the party can be back fire on you. And that is my main priority to create long sustainable account here... (LOL)

      After all, if I answer something that is irrelevant with my knowledge, that ain't gonna convert into clicks. So I always trying to choose quality over quantity when I do forum marketing.

      When Kim Roach taught me that the keys of forum marketing is create valuable post, she is right... and I implement what she taught me.
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    Originally Posted by alampintar View Post

    Actually, I kind of expecting this (low sales) to happen because in this forum, user are mainly marketer and usually marketer can not sell to another marketer.
    Actually, marketers sell to other marketers all the time, very successfully. That's what the WSO forum is!

    People are willing to pay you for your knowledge and experience, even if it is just a little more than what they have.
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    • Profile picture of the author Syamsul Alam
      Originally Posted by Devid Farah View Post

      The best forum marketing strategy that will make you successful is to really integrate yourself into the forum community.

      Instead of bombarding forums with offers and begging them to visit your sites, you should give useful advice and try to be as helpful as possible.

      Two things will happen if you take that approach: you will make new connections and you will gain an "expert" status.

      Once you reach that level, all that will be left to do is to add a smart, conservative signature.

      People will click on your links simply because they trust you.

      It really is that simply and it will work on any forum for any niche.
      Begging, spamming, in order to make someone click your offer is pathetic, and I completely agree with you.

      Being someone who always helpful to others member is something that now I'll focus on...

      Thanks for your thoughts, Devid... I appreciate it a lot...



      Originally Posted by Colin Palfrey View Post

      Is it just me that thinks several moderators are probably watching this thread, just praying for a confession from whoever has annoyed them recently LOL

      Back to the OP
      I think it's all about being a real person and interacting with others.

      The best way to make others want to know what you know, is to demonstrate your knowledge by helping others. This way people are helped and start to like you, and you build your reputation. It's a win win situation.
      Actually, I stretch my comfort zone when I'm making this thread. LOL...

      back to your response.

      That is correct.

      Thanks for reminding me to interact better to anyone who response to my post. It is always good to create some friends while doing what you love to do plus building reputation plus winning at the same time.

      Thanks for your response.

      Originally Posted by BloggingPro View Post

      To be really successful at Forum marketing I think you need to have some sort of passion for whatever it is you will eventually begin promoting. For all of my niches that I promote on forums I'm actively involved in discussions, creating helpful threads and just being friendly. I like the products I am promoting to the forum and at the end of the day it shows.
      Originally Posted by dake View Post

      My forum marketing strategy would be making regular posts with relevant content, in various threads of the forums.
      Regular posts won't do, contribute better, harder, than anyone else... you'll just being 90% if you don't stretch and aim high enough. Just my humble opinion for you...

      Originally Posted by The Exciting Life View Post

      Actually, marketers sell to other marketers all the time, very successfully. That's what the WSO forum is!

      People are willing to pay you for your knowledge and experience, even if it is just a little more than what they have.
      You are correct, totally correct.

      I think I forgot that this forum is one of the best forum where nice people meet and build business and relationship together.
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    alampintar...

    This is quite interesting, it being the first time I've ever seen someone use the WF for such intense personal training in this manner. And here I thought that just reading the posts would be enough. Boy, was I wrong. Already you have 'taught' us something without realizing it.

    You have received some excellent advice so far covering pretty much everything.

    One thing that stands out for me in your OP, however, is that you seem to be looking strictly at using the forum for promotion. You are providing chapters from your report, for instance, with the main purpose of getting sales. The secondary purpose is to provide useful information.

    While we all know that the Forum offers an opportunity to make sales, it shouldn't be your main goal.

    The WF is a place to share insights, ideas and advice as well as feedback. Through that type of interaction, you gain people's trust so they grow to like you. This causes them to look at your sig file, click to your offer and buy something from you.

    Over-deliver on your offer and you will impress your buyers who will then become repeat buyers. But it all starts by being helpful here, rather than sales oriented.

    To answer your question about forum marketing ideas. Controversy is always a hot topic. If you can start or participate on those types of threads, you will attract more attention. People will join in, share their views and opinions, and open up some interesting conversations.

    Now, you do have to be careful with such threads. While controversy can be good, it can quickly turn into something ugly. Think of it as an opportunity to debate an issue from all sides. Whatever you do, don't get into silly arguments or it will backfire.

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    • Profile picture of the author Syamsul Alam
      Originally Posted by sylviad View Post

      alampintar...

      This is quite interesting, it being the first time I've ever seen someone use the WF for such intense personal training in this manner. And here I thought that just reading the posts would be enough. Boy, was I wrong. Already you have 'taught' us something without realizing it.

      You have received some excellent advice so far covering pretty much everything.

      One thing that stands out for me in your OP, however, is that you seem to be looking strictly at using the forum for promotion. You are providing chapters from your report, for instance, with the main purpose of getting sales. The secondary purpose is to provide useful information.

      While we all know that the Forum offers an opportunity to make sales, it shouldn't be your main goal.

      The WF is a place to share insights, ideas and advice as well as feedback. Through that type of interaction, you gain people's trust so they grow to like you. This causes them to look at your sig file, click to your offer and buy something from you.

      Over-deliver on your offer and you will impress your buyers who will then become repeat buyers. But it all starts by being helpful here, rather than sales oriented.

      To answer your question about forum marketing ideas. Controversy is always a hot topic. If you can start or participate on those types of threads, you will attract more attention. People will join in, share their views and opinions, and open up some interesting conversations.

      Now, you do have to be careful with such threads. While controversy can be good, it can quickly turn into something ugly. Think of it as an opportunity to debate an issue from all sides. Whatever you do, don't get into silly arguments or it will backfire.

      Sylvia
      Thank you for taking time to reply on my threads Sylvia. It was nice to be noticed by senior warrior.

      I admit that I create some threads in order to gain clicks to my site. I won't deny it.

      In the process, I don't strictly do like what I said in my OP. I do that, but that is just little activity which I done in this big forum.

      I wrote my post like that, to gain some controversy like what you just said. (You are correct when you said controversy can be good forum marketing strategy)

      I wrote it like that, to make it relevant with my thread title. "What is your best forum marketing strategy". While sharing my experiences and ideas about forum marketing.

      I do agree when you said that WF shouldn't be used mainly for promotion. A lot of members sharing their ideas, insight, knowledge, feedback and as member of this forum, I should keep that tradition.

      Thank you for your advice. I think this thread is too bold for some people (yes I think about it when I start this thread).

      I hope people don't misunderstand me and gain something from my OP.

      Thanks for your response!
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    My forum marketing strategy would be making regular posts with relevant content, in various threads of the forums.
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    To be really successful at Forum marketing I think you need to have some sort of passion for whatever it is you will eventually begin promoting. For all of my niches that I promote on forums I'm actively involved in discussions, creating helpful threads and just being friendly. I like the products I am promoting to the forum and at the end of the day it shows.
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    Is it just me that thinks several moderators are probably watching this thread, just praying for a confession from whoever has annoyed them recently LOL

    Back to the OP
    I think it's all about being a real person and interacting with others.

    The best way to make others want to know what you know, is to demonstrate your knowledge by helping others. This way people are helped and start to like you, and you build your reputation. It's a win win situation.
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    • Profile picture of the author Devid Farah
      The best forum marketing strategy that will make you successful is to really integrate yourself into the forum community.

      Instead of bombarding forums with offers and begging them to visit your sites, you should give useful advice and try to be as helpful as possible.

      Two things will happen if you take that approach: you will make new connections and you will gain an “expert” status.

      Once you reach that level, all that will be left to do is to add a smart, conservative signature.

      People will click on your links simply because they trust you.

      It really is that simply and it will work on any forum for any niche.
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  • Profile picture of the author tryinhere
    Originally Posted by alampintar View Post

    Well... that is my forum marketing strategy. Now, how you do your forum marketing strategy? Any ideas will be great!
    my head hurts / some people over complicate life, as soon as you put the words forum and marketing together it spells spam as you only intention for making a post is to peddle your Sig and your secondary thought may be to help others or participate, in other words you are saying what can i get or take / what's in it for me, you young pups need to learn a forum works best by asking what can i give.

    try this, participate in the forum, be helpful and supportive with good content and information and forget you have a signature at all, then see what happens to your little stat counter.
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      Originally Posted by tryinhere View Post

      as soon as you put the words forum and marketing together it spells spam as you only intention for making a post is to peddle your Sig and your secondary thought may be to help others or participate

      I would disagree with you only in nuance.

      When most people put the words forum and marketing together, they mistake "form marketing" for "forum advertising".

      There is always so much more depth available under the umbrella of marketing than there is under the umbrella of advertising.

      It doesn't really matter what word you put in front: forum, article, social media, etc.

      Most people understand "marketing" to mean you should blatantly "advertise", but true marketers seldom need to advertise.
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  • Profile picture of the author fated82
    There are two parts for my forum marketing strategy

    Answering questions - provide useful and informative answers to solve Op's problems.

    Starting a thread - Create interesting and intriguing thread, sometime to inspire, sometimes to teach or sometimes to ask for opinions.

    That's it....the rest of it lies in your forum sig.....If it's relevant, people will click....
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  • Profile picture of the author clever7
    I believe that forums are basically helpful for getting traffic when someone finds you answer interesting for some reason. It’s basically a place for meeting interesting people. You may find affiliates or jv partners, etc. Many things.

    I basically come here for learning, and for helping everyone when I can. My secret dream is to find here many affiliates who will actually promote my products, with great enthusiasm.
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  • Profile picture of the author Colin Palfrey
    I think the way many people think about their forum marketing activities is fundamentally wrong.

    What we have on a forum is personality marketing at its most basic. To clarify this, I think some people could sell gold bars at a dollar each in their sig and fail, while others provide very little value and succeed.

    Even stranger to the uninformed is the fact that the person peddling crap may still be more appreciated than the other guy - after the sale. Not that the people who understand personality marketing tend to peddle crap, they understand their market too well, but they could, and the odd one does do it.

    People buy from people - That is a basic principle of marketing, and a forum merely allows this marketing principle to come to the fore.

    Ask any salesman out on the forecourt trying to sell a car, they will tell you it is how they act that matters, not what they sell.
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    • Profile picture of the author Syamsul Alam
      Originally Posted by tryinhere View Post

      my head hurts / some people over complicate life, as soon as you put the words forum and marketing together it spells spam as you only intention for making a post is to peddle your Sig and your secondary thought may be to help others or participate, in other words you are saying what can i get or take / what's in it for me, you young pups need to learn a forum works best by asking what can i give.

      try this, participate in the forum, be helpful and supportive with good content and information and forget you have a signature at all, then see what happens to your little stat counter.
      I appreciate your opinion but I must say that every form of marketing isn't spamming.

      Spammer is pathetic. Marketer can do a lot more than that. You don't get steak in your plate because butcher is a nice person. You got steak in your plate because butcher sell their meat to you with intention to get money.

      I can't express myself better than that. I'm sorry. But I don't see anything wrong in what I do. I will contribute to this forum and that is my way to market my product.

      By contributing.

      Not because I'm the nicest person on earth, but simply because I want that click on my sig and I won't avoid getting friends, partners, or teachers in the process (I think everyone who put on their sig and honest enough with himself will admit that).

      Originally Posted by Colin Palfrey View Post

      I think the way many people think about their forum marketing activities is fundamentally wrong.

      What we have on a forum is personality marketing at its most basic. To clarify this, I think some people could sell gold bars at a dollar each in their sig and fail, while others provide very little value and succeed.

      Even stranger to the uninformed is the fact that the person peddling crap may still be more appreciated than the other guy - after the sale. Not that the people who understand personality marketing tend to peddle crap, they understand their market too well, but they could, and the odd one does do it.

      People buy from people - That is a basic principle of marketing, and a forum merely allows this marketing principle to come to the fore.

      Ask any salesman out on the forecourt trying to sell a car, they will tell you it is how they act that matters, not what they sell.
      Thanks for your responses Colin. I appreciate it a lot.
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  • Profile picture of the author Trinidad
    forums marketing looks abit busy and frustrating but i think it is the best result if we apply any good ethical contribution to the community
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  • Profile picture of the author Brad Spencer
    In all honesty, "forum marketing" is almost an oxymoron in the sense that most think of it (using a forum to market).

    The reason I think this has been sort of touched upon by a few people in here (who get it) and realize that marketing is a RESULT of what you put into this.

    Forums are the building block of trust since if you come in here all of a sudden sharing tons of techniques and what not, you'll gain a reputation quickly as a "go to" guy and that trust will get you lots of subscribers and sales for your business.

    "Marketing" in the sense of doing activities like posting articles, building backlinks, setting up PPC campaigns, creating joint ventures, etc doesn't happen here b/c marketing here is an "after though" that happens after the fact.

    So for me, my "forum marketing" strategy is simply to build micro assets on this forum with my WSOs and then create posts that inspire a conversation on a topic. Some training, some thought-provoking, some laughing...then I share them with my list to get the conversation rolling and inspire other people to post.

    I do this mainly to give traction to ideas and see what other people think so I can fully develop these ideas in my own business. Most of the time, people here are smart enough to pick up on stuff in them and use them to be profitable (or so their posts say). I mainly use this forum as a passive asset for entertainment, market research, developing ideas with the great people on here (my favorite thing to do), and sell products that I know will help people with their problem.

    So far, I've had an almost perfect experience here...stick to this strategy and you'll do fine on here.

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    Originally Posted by alampintar View Post

    Next step: I'm creating thread where I leak chapter one of my product, creating more thread where I leak the essence of my free report. I bump my thread by adding more valuable content (because that is the ethical way to do) and reply on any question.
    You risk getting your threads deleted and getting banned if you continue to do it if you post threads just for the purpose of pre-selling/promoting a WSO.
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      Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

      You risk getting your threads deleted and getting banned if you continue to do it if you post threads just for the purpose of pre-selling/promoting a WSO.
      Hi suzanne... Thanks for your thought.

      I'm fully aware that pre selling, self promoting, or anything that risk myself is not good for me. If you ever read my thread, I NEVER encourage people to click at my signature.

      My signature is the ONE who encourage people to click MY SIGNATURE. Just like Brad Spencer above, his SIGNATURE encourage people to click HIS SIGNATURE.

      EDIT: Your signature is also the one who encourage people to click on your link, don't you?

      "Get Google News Site Blueprint - Click Here"
      Let me repeat myself, I never encourage people to click on my signature in my post. I share my method, and when somehow I make it flowing good 'til my signature, people will click my signature.
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      • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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        Originally Posted by alampintar View Post

        Hi suzanne... Thanks for your thought.

        I'm fully aware that pre selling, self promoting, or anything that risk myself is not good for me. If you ever read my thread, I NEVER encourage people to click at my signature.

        My signature is the ONE who encourage people to click MY SIGNATURE. Just like Brad Spencer above, his SIGNATURE encourage people to click HIS SIGNATURE.

        EDIT: Your signature is also the one who encourage people to click on your link, don't you?

        "Get Google News Site Blueprint - Click Here"
        Let me repeat myself, I never encourage people to click on my signature in my post. I share my method, and when somehow I make it flowing good 'til my signature, people will click my signature.
        You're missing the point. It's more than just saying Click on my link. Self promotion and pre-selling also involve starting a thread that matches the topic of your signature (i.e., starting a thread about 7 golden rules when creating review sites when you have a 7 golden rules when creating review sites link in your signature, as you did already. That is preselling and self promotion. It is creating a thread specifically to draw attention to your signature and my guess is ... it has already been deleted.

        In addition, article type of posts are not allowed on the main forum. There's a thread about it by a mod here:
        http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...directory.html
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          Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

          You're missing the point. It's more than just saying Click on my link. Self promotion and pre-selling also involve starting a thread that matches the topic of your signature (i.e., starting a thread about 7 golden rules when creating review sites when you have a 7 golden rules when creating review sites link in your signature, as you did already. That is preselling and self promotion. It is creating a thread specifically to draw attention to your signature and my guess is ... it has already been deleted.

          In addition, article type of posts are not allowed on the main forum. There's a thread about it by a mod here:
          http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...directory.html
          Well, then that's clear everything. Thank you...
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          • Profile picture of the author sylviad
            An easy way to look at forum marketing is to compare it to your local Chamber of Commerce or Rotary Club meetings or any meet-and-greet type of situations that feature business reps coming together.

            Now, those organizations do some quality community work and provide a platform for business owners to discuss issues that affect their businesses in some way. It could be anything from local parking bylaws to importation rules.

            Apart from operators getting a chance to debate and offer input into those issues, such gatherings can help their businesses to prosper.

            The meetings also enable them to share ideas with other operators on many levels, including building joint ventures and finding service and product providers that they can trust. It's much easier to trust someone you have met than a total stranger. They inevitably pass out business cards. But under it all, they are building relationships on many levels.

            And so, we have the marketing forums that do the same thing. When those people want to advertise, they do so with their business cards (sig files) or they buy ad space.

            Think of the forum as one huge meeting place where you come to build a good reputation for yourself by helping out your community, and you will benefit in many ways besides monetarily.

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    Give value. Period.
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    w/ regards about forum..

    What are other best forum sites that allows profile sig at the bottom just like warrior forum did?

    Any idea?

    Thanks!
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    1) Posting valuable tips & advice
    2) Helping people with problems
    3) Occasionally giving away a really useful free report.
    4) offering a really useful product free in the signature
    5) contacting great posters and asking them to guest blog
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  • Profile picture of the author apoorv.parijat
    Forums are driven by people. You could spam and maybe get noticed by a couple people.

    Or, you could post stuff that you know about, is valuable (valuable is always subjective, yes, but give your best on stuff you know about) and you'll do just fine. There are no big tricks, or magic bullets here. I've never paid too much attention to the thanks count, or the number of posts.

    The people who are really knowledgeable and share their knowledge will stand out, automatically. They don't need a thanks crowd around them, or a huge number of posts to make their contribution stand out. It becomes very obvious who knows their stuff and who doesn't. With forums, just be yourself and contribute as much value as you can.

    I'm not too much into forum marketing though. =D
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