Signature Link Creates Sales?

Mikey, the data won't be conclusive since you'd need to factor in the extensiveness of the exposure too; specifically how many forums each person is advertising across as well as their rate of activity on each.

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Mikeyrooney

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Daniel Evans

Mikey, the data won't be conclusive since you'd need to factor in the extensiveness of the exposure too; specifically how many forums each person is advertising across as well as their rate of activity on each.

Hey Daniel,

I know what you mean but it will give some indication of how many sales people get in a general sense for forum marketing.

Cheers, Mikey

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rdpayne 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Mikeyrooney

Robert,

Have you tried this method yet? Any success?

Mikey

Mikey,

I have not made any concentrated efforts in forum marketing, though I have been toying with the idea.
I do have a sig with a link to my WF thread, but I have not tracked clicks or conversions. So, I can't say, definitively, whether or not it works for me.
But, forum marketing is widely touted as a viable marketing strategy because it supposedly helps get over the know-like-trust hurdle.
Personally, I do occasionally click on links in folks' sig, but I don't usually buy anything or opt into any lists.
Based on that, I think forum marketing is indeed viable for generating traffic and, perhaps, sales, if the landing pages are convincing and the visitors are willing and able to take action.

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  the know-like-trust hurdle.
  
  --Robert
  
  Yes Robert, this is exactly what sounds appealing about it. It's kinda like pre-sell in a different way.
  
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WillMitchell

11 years ago

This works for generating traffic of course, but the sales are really dependent on your offering, the quality of your forum responses, relevance of offer, etc.

Forum marketing is a great way to generate traffic though.

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Mikeyrooney

11 years ago

We have a super support agent who our customers love as she really loves to help them and I was thinking of setting her an account up in same niche forum and asking her to go and share and help people achieve there goals and give great value. Then use the signature link to point back to our website. I have not got time myself so i thought choosing our best customer support agent maybe a good idea for this method of traffic generation.

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rdpayne

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Mikeyrooney

We have a super support agent who our customers love as she really loves to help them and I was thinking of setting her an account up in same niche forum and asking her to go and share and help people achieve there goals and give great value. Then use the signature link to point back to our website. I have not got time myself so i thought choosing our best customer support agent maybe a good idea for this method of traffic generation.

There are marketers who pay VAs in the Philippines (and other places I suspect) to do exactly that. Look for posts on the WF by Content Writing 360° as an example.

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TomYevsikov

11 years ago

The forum sig doesn't EXACTLY bring sales, it brings traffic.

It's up to you how you monetize that traffic.

I mean, I don't know if this one click from my signature is the one who bought the product I promoted 2 weeks later, right?

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Mikeyrooney 11 years ago

Originally Posted by TomYevsikov

I mean, I don't know if this one click from my signature is the one who bought the product I promoted 2 weeks later, right?

I would be tracking any sig links to know these facts. I suggest everyone do the same. This would be the best way to know where sales are coming from I think.
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Alexa Smith

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by TomYevsikov

The forum sig doesn't EXACTLY bring sales, it brings traffic.

This. Exactly.

I don't remember seeing a sig-file link directly to a payment/order page, so far.

Sig-files don't make sales - they produce visitors to whom you can make sales, given the effectiveness of all the other things that your sales process depends on. Even if you're linking in your sig-file directly to a sales page (of which there are many examples right here in the WF), you're not going to make sales unless the sales page is good, the traffic's targeted for that offer, and so on.

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Mikeyrooney

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Sig-files don't make sales.

I was under the impression that the relationship developed on the forum kinda helped make the sale! You overcome the trust issue that is so lacking on the internet.

Of course, we all need to have a good website marketing the correct products / services. I thought this went without saying.

How about you Alexa? Do you create many sales from forums? I am sure you track all these things?

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Alexa Smith

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Mikeyrooney

I was under the impression that the relationship developed on the forum kinda helped make the sale!

Undoubtedly. Well, in commercial terms, that's "pre-selling", isn't it? It's building credibility just like an article you might have published somewhere (as a "guest blog post", or whatever) does the same, so that your recommendations carry more weight?

Originally Posted by Mikeyrooney

How about you Alexa? Do you create many sales from forums? I am sure you track all these things?

Yes, some ... my problem with that is that not all my niches have good forums available for conveniently doing that. But I try (and in my biggest niche I actually own a forum: that's different, though: you'd have to call that "advertising", really, I think).

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Mikeyrooney

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

Undoubtedly. Well, in commercial terms, that's "pre-selling", isn't it? It's building credibility just like an article you might have published somewhere (as a "guest blog post", or whatever) does the same, so that your recommendations carry more weight?

Thanks for the clarification!

My niche is self-improvement and we have a product that helps people greatly... I think there should be many good forums where this method may work well.

Btw Alexa: I would like to take this opportunity to say thanks for Sharin so much here. I often come across your posts and always give them extra attention.

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paul nicholls

11 years ago

I have put some of my wso's in my sig previously and if i used to be active every day i used to generate anywhere from 1 sale per day to 5 sales per day

there are a lot of variables involved though such as how good your sales page is and if you provide good info based on what your wso's are about because then some people may click through and then buy your wso

i did this for around 5 months and just checked my stats and i made around 300 sales from just
my wf sig and that includes some upsells as well

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Mikeyrooney

11 years ago

Originally Posted by paul nicholls

I have put some of my wso's in my sig previously and if i used to be active every day i used to generate anywhere from 1 sale per day to 5 sales per day

there are a lot of variables involved though such as how good your sales page is and if you provide good info based on what your wso's are about because then some people may click through and then buy your wso

i did this for around 5 months and just checked my stats and i made around 300 sales from just
my wf sig and that includes some upsells as well

That's very encouraging Paul! Cheers

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Mikeyrooney 11 years ago

Originally Posted by paul nicholls

i did this for around 5 months and just checked my stats and i made around 300 sales from just
my wf sig and that includes some upsells as well

Did the same method work on other forums too?
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Bill Hugall

11 years ago

The question is flawed..... It is all based on where you post, what you say, and the funnel you have set-up. so if you get 10 leads a day from your sig and you are catering to fresh newbies and you are offering optimize press. You sales are going to suck. They have no need for this yet as they don't even know what a squeeze page is. You will get leads. Again based on where and what.

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onegoodman

11 years ago

I would agree with the other to replace sales with traffic.

It may and it may not get you some traffic, if i were you I wouldn't count on it.

If you are in a related forum to your niche, you probably will get few leads. However, you wouldn't get that much of traffic.

A classified ad in the right place will give you way better exposure

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denysapu

11 years ago

Din't place a poll because I don't know if I can count it.

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11 years ago

I love german shepherds. I am active in a forum there. I recommend a ebook, on how to train them with my affilate link. Its another niche, so not really knowledgeable about affialte links, so not being shutdown. I have about 5k posts there and i am making about 15-30 sales per week, but i am super active there which is 1 reason so many sales

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TomYevsikov

11 years ago

Huh?

15-30 sales per day from forum sig?

damn, sounds ALMOST like it's not true..

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Mikeyrooney 11 years ago

Originally Posted by TomYevsikov

Huh?

15-30 sales per day from forum sig?

damn, sounds ALMOST like it's not true..

The poster said per week .. I think very possible!! Congrats to your success!
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Claire Koch

11 years ago

The forum sig file cannot be your only means of advertisement period. It is one avenue you can take and absolutely sales are made this way. No question.

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dvduval

11 years ago

I always get this strange feeling that threads about signature links attract people who are hoping you will click on their signature link, but not people who will do the clicking. HAHA

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laurencewins

11 years ago

I get some sales per month but I can;'t say one a day even though that was what I put. I maybe average 10-15 per month

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Mikeyrooney 11 years ago

Originally Posted by laurencewins

I get some sales per month but I can;'t say one a day even though that was what I put. I maybe average 10-15 per month

That's really cool Laurence! Where they all from the same forum or multiple forums?
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wordpressdoctor

11 years ago

Awesome question. I would like to see the results on this one.

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laurencewins

11 years ago

The majority were from this forum. But I also got some from other places and it is hard to tell where people ate from.

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Mikeyrooney 11 years ago

Originally Posted by laurencewins

The majority were from this forum. But I also got some from other places and it is hard to tell where people ate from.

Laurence ... you can track all the links from different forums with a google tracking link ... this will then show up in your google analytics account when you get a conversion etc.

This way you can see what works best and then work harder on that particular forum.

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Ashley249

11 years ago

Wow, surprised!

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Mikeyrooney

11 years ago

Originally Posted by BIG Mike

Done properly, Forum Marketing can lead prospects into your sales funnel regularly and consistently. Do it wrong and you'll get poor results and/or banned from the forums you're doing it in.

Any tips on best practices to "do it the right way". Specifics would be fantastic!

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John Romaine

11 years ago

3.12% conversion rate.

Each visitor is worth 0.28c

Does that answer your question?

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Mikeyrooney 11 years ago

Originally Posted by John Romaine

3.12% conversion rate.

Each visitor is worth 0.28c

Does that answer your question?

Love specifics! Is that just from this forum or all forums in total?
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  Just this forum.
  
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PerformanceMan

11 years ago

Every now and again I'll click through and find something I buy. I'm sure it happens.

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hirithk

11 years ago

hi,
forum marketing is good, signatures bring more traffic, the majority of the people will spend their time in forums.

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topgold

11 years ago

Forum traffic is sign-up traffic. It's up to you to convert that traffic... =]

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Stuart Walker

11 years ago

My signature links certainly bring in traffic but not sure if any of it has directly converted into sales or not.

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jackcarr

11 years ago

Even as a beginner I can see a increase in traffic (not sales as I am not selling anything)

But I had my blog in my sig for 1 day and it brought about 30 unique visitors yesterday. So it helps for traffic that's for sure.

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Make Money Ninja

11 years ago

I don't post on here all that much, i am kind of busy running my "main business". That said, i spend a couple of hours on here every now and again.

Today i have had 100 or so visitors through my sig. I also have a 20% opt in rate on my site. So i am getting 20 email opt-ins a day atm.

This obviously converts in to a few sales

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J. Barry Mandel

11 years ago

I don't know the actual break down from signature sales, but I do keep track of banner/signature CTR with Bitly.

It DEFINITELY helps, I just don't know the actual figure but would guess in my case it's about 1% to 2%.

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RogueOne

11 years ago

I changed my sig about a month ago.

Since then I've gotten 47 opt-ins. Only one has un-subbed.

I've sold four OTOs and two follow up sales.

My opt-in rate overall from three links is about 38%.

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