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Forum Marketing Made Simple



Forum Marketing
  Made Simple




     By Coby Wright

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                      Table of Contents
Table of Contents..............................................................................4
Forum Marketing Online ..................................................................5
Why is Forum Marketing Effective? ...............................................7
Getting Started with Forum Marketing............................................9
Forum Marketing Etiquette ............................................................11
Forum Marketing Can Become an Addiction ...............................13
Importance of Forum Based Market places..................................15
Making Your Offer in a Forum Based Marketplace......................17
Before You Post Your Offer...........................................................19
Why Should You Post an Offer in a Forum Market Place?..........21
  Price testing...................................................................................21
  To Develop Products and Improve on Them.................................22
Tips about Your Forum Based Market Place Offer......................23
  Management of Your Offer.............................................................24
How Can You Leverage Your Business with a Forum Based
Market Place Offer?........................................................................25
  #1 - Thank Your Buyers.................................................................25
  #2 - Build Your List.........................................................................25
  #3 - Construct your Database Carefully ........................................26
  #4 - Make an Offer with an Upsell..................................................27
  #5 - Please Follow up.....................................................................27
  #6 - Bridge Your Way.....................................................................28
  #7 – Testimonials...........................................................................28
  #8 - Consolidate your Affiliate Army...............................................28
  #9 - Locate Joint Venture Partners................................................29
  #10 - Get a Big Launch..................................................................29



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        Forum Marketing Online

If you are serious about wanting to promote your website or product
on the Internet, then going to available forums in your niche is one of
the best options for you. These forums are easy to join and most will
require no additional investment to be a member. Moreover, being a
storehouse of information and accessible to anyone, these forums
are an ideal way to go about advertising your web page.

These forums serve as social networking centers, where topics are
discussed and information is exchanged. Hence if you can find a
forum where the discussions that are being held are relevant to your
own product or niche, then the chances of getting your website
noticed will be higher. So that should be your first step towards
establishing yourself and your business online.

But remember, as with all kinds of marketing…finesse is everything.
Do not overdo your enthusiasm. It is best to act calm and not seem
like you are desperate to market your product. Such over eagerness
is often one of the most surefire ways to offend a potential customer.
This could even lead to the possible ban of you and your website with
the allegation of being a spammer.

This is why it's best to find forums that are closely related to your
niche. Once you find a potential forum here is what you do: Go and
read the threads posted on the forum, figure out the best way you can
to respond to the question being asked and give your best most
informative post you can.



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This is will help you build credibility as people on the forum start to
trust you and see you to be helpful and genuine. Once that is done,
all you have to do is subtly lead them to your website and that is that.
(This is where the signature comes into play, but on that in a
moment.)

Forum marketing is an easy and profitable option for you because it is
absolutely free and targeting a certain niche clientele is very easy.
But try and avoid promoting your website on irrelevant forums or
threads as it might hamper your reputation. (ie threads that do not
relate or in forums that aren't in your niche.) So do it casually and
always follow up and inquire about whether the directed person found
your website or answer helpful.

This is a great way to get feedback, which will help with improving
your site, building client rapport, and seducing new customers to your
site by a show of attentiveness to their likes and dislikes. But finally
the most important thing to keep in mind is that although they are
beneficial for marketing, these forums are for discussion not sales. So
be subtle and the sales and subscribers will come.




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         Why is Forum Marketing
                Effective?

As we just discussed, forum marketing is a form of marketing where
you market your business through online discussion groups also
known as forums.

First you join a forum and start adding valuable and helpful posts to
the discussions. However, you are not allowed to advertise or market
directly through your posts, this is called spamming. After registering
as a member of the forum you can create your own signature file
(make sure the forum allows it).

In this signature file you can hyperlink a keyword phrase back to your
website, which when clicked will take the person to your site.

The following are five benefits of forum marketing.

  1.   Always remember that when you are posting you are
       helping someone else out. It is a great feeling when you get
       to help the other person. If you are a believer in karma then
       forum marketing is definitely for you.

  1.   You get to learn a lot for free. When I first started my Forum
       Fever website I never felt the urge to post. I only read other
       people’s posts. I hung out in the Warrior Forum and learned a
       lot which essentially helped me grow my business.

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  2.   You’ll get free advertising from your signature. People read
       your posts and view your signature and click on the link to your
       website. This type of traffic is very passive and a great source
       of sales and subscribers to your mailing list.

  3.   Search engines will give you credit for a backlink when you
       hyperlink your keyword phrase back to your website. By
       simply making regular posts you will be generating backlinks to
       your website. Backlinks will help improve your site ranking in
       the search engines and eventually get you even more traffic.

  4.   One other huge benefit is that you get ideas to write
       articles about for your blog by going through the different
       kinds of questions people ask. A good question usually
       stimulates a lot of discussion. Such questions can easily be
       turned into good articles.

These are just a few good reasons for you to include forum marketing
as part of your overall marketing strategies. Be consistent and you
will definitely reap the benefits.




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     Getting Started with Forum
              Marketing
Not all forums you come across will contain the type of people that
you want to communicate with (ie your target market). You should
choose 3-5 forums to focus your efforts on. Make sure that these
forums have at least 10,000 posts, at least 1,000 members and that
at least 10-15 new posts are added daily.

Avoid forums which are hosted by your direct competitors; and those
which are flooded by spam.

Create your forum account as soon as possible. This is helpful
because seniority often gives a lot of importance in many online
forums: some even require you to wait a few days before posting for
the first time or before adding a signature.

When you first sign up, you’ll be asked to agree to their user
agreements and posting guidelines. Read these documents carefully.
A lot of people skip this and just click yes, because there is a lot of
legal jargon.

Some more important things are:

  • Whether or not you are allowed to include links in your posts?
  • If you are allowed to promote your business?
  • If you can use commercial messages as your signature? (can
    you use a signature?)


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   • Rather or not you can contact other members for business
     purposes on the forum?
   • If there are any restrictions on new members and/or privileges
     for old members?
   • Also, remember that your user name is the first thing that will be
     noticed by others. Pick one that’s memorable, simple and can
     be easily pronounced. You might want to use your real name
     and/or the name of your company. Do not use random
     combinations of letters and/or numbers, or something that’s
     significant to you alone.

Create a profile that will help you establish credibility. Put up a
description of your experience and expertise. Personal information
can help break the ice, but don’t venture into topics that can alienate
anyone, like race or religion or political affiliation.

Above all, treat forum marketing as an integral part of your long-term
strategy, not just a one-off opportunity to bombard the message-
boards with information about your hot new product.




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     Forum Marketing Etiquette

There is nothing that screams ‘brilliant opportunity’ like forum
marketing. That is why if you don't want to lose out on serious profit
making chances then you should read the basic forum rules posted
on each site.

This provides guidelines as to what can or cannot be done on the
forum, helping you draw your limits as to how aggressive your
marketing can be on these forums. Lack of this often leads to
carelessness leading to unnecessary bans, and black marking
against a particular user’s name.

So reading the rules before joining any forum is absolutely crucial,
and comprises the first rule in successful internet marketing. The
rules of the forum are normally posted right in the beginning under
the guidelines or general discussion category and are usually pretty
straightforward.

They will simply ban or disapprove any kind of aggressive self
promotion and comments which may offend other forum members.
But the degree of strictness in implementing these rules differs from
site to site, so checking beforehand is the safest way to stay out of
trouble.

Remember that you are a fellow forum member who has joined
because you liked the sound of the forum and the topics that were
being discussed within it, you are not supposed to be there to market
yourself directly. So don't start singing your own praises and that of

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your website or product the moment you show up in a forum (or
anytime really), especially without context.

Read what is being discussed, see how the forum is (formal or
informal) and respond to the discussions. Moreover get to know some
of the people on the forum, build a rapport before you start bringing
up the subject of your website subtly.

Following threads also has another bonus. If you follow a thread then
you can keep track of certain questions asked by other members, and
if this falls into your area of expertise then you can help them out and
also solve their problems, maybe even lead them subtly to your site
containing matters about these issues through your signature.

This not only gets traffic to your site but also adds to your reputation.
Thus in time, your credibility will increase and people will flock to your
site to get help or buy your product, increasing your sales.

So just go ahead and follow this etiquette and you will be fine.




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  Forum Marketing Can Become
         an Addiction
Forum marketing is a great way of marketing if you do it the right way.
The reason is because forum marketing is basically showing your
expertise while also building your reputation. It will definitely build
your credibility if done the right way. But if done wrongly it reflects
your lack of expertise and can turn your name to mud.

Once you have decided on which forums you will use, go through the
rules and regulations of each one. Each forum’s rules are different.
Many have certain topics banned, some allow advertisement and
some don’t. Some forums even prohibit the talk or promotion of other
forums.

First learn the rules of the road. Not following the rules will get you
quickly banned in the forums. Even if it is allowed you should not
advertise through your posts or comments. Rely on your signature to
promote you and your business.

Before you start actually posting anything go through the contents of
the forum thoroughly at least once. By reading through the different
threads on the forum you will have a good idea about what the forum
is all about and the best way you can approach it. If you try to dive
right in, that might have a negative impact within the forum and that
is one thing you will definitely want to avoid.

Always remember that along with the newcomers the best known
brains in the online marketing industry are also posting in these
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forums. So, before you post something on a given topic or try to
comment on a post make sure you have the necessary expertise to
make that comment. If you do not have the necessary knowledge and
shoot from the hip then at best you will be ignored or at worse,
experience marketers might call you out on it and that could ruin your
reputation.

There is nothing wrong in creating a little controversy in these forums.
I sometimes acquire some of my best and most successful business
ideas from forum topics that created some form of controversy. But
this is entirely different than being called a fraud or making it
completely obvious you have no clue what your talking about.

Make replies to threads only when you can help someone with a
problem. Forums are all about helping each other with a common
goal, be sure to keep that in mind. If you can provide help then
absolutely go for it. Good or bad the reputation you create in the
forums will stick with you through out your internet marketing career.




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     Importance of Forum Based
            Market places

If you are really trying to make your mark online as an internet
marketer then you need to search for forum that has market places
within them.

These forums are goldmines. Think about it for a moment. You have
a targeted audience and daily traffic. A great example of a forum with
a market place is the Warrior Forum. The Warrior Forum has a
particular section of the forum where you can offer products and
services for sale or even for free if you want to build a list.

Currently it cost's $40 to post a thread in the Warrior “Special Offer”
Section but it is very worth it, even if you are just giving away
something for free.

Here is why this is so powerful...

The Warrior Forum, which if you don't know, is a Internet Marketing
forum and so it is full of people who are interested in Internet
Marketing. The audience ranges from complete newbies to seasoned
veterans earning multiple thousands a month. So if you have an
product in the Internet Marketing niche this forum is a great place to
make lots of sales and reach a brand new audience or to launch a
new product.




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I have had several successful WSOs as they are called. I was able to
put over 240 subscribers on my list when I offered a free WSO and
have had 4 other successful ones in which I sold products.

The key is to offer extreme value and a very low price. I like to start
the WSO at a $1 and increase it after each sale. This helps get
feedback and comments on your thread so you will get social proof
and make even more sales.

So remember if you can find a forum with a marketplace in it you
have found a gold mine. Do your best to always deliver value to the
forum with your products but also by making high quality posts in the
main section of the forum. By doing this you will build your reputation
while also being able to earn some great cash all while building a
powerful mailing list.




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   Making Your Offer in a Forum
        Based Marketplace

In an Internet Marketing Forum, all people want to display their
superior copywriting skills while composing a special offer. I have
listed some tips for you to follow while posting your ad in a forum
based market place.

Do not try to overdo the title - if your offer cannot be understood,
there are high chances of you losing out. They should be directed to
your sales page and the offer should be short and pin pointed.

Apart from the headline, actual copy and payment method, you need
to ensure the inclusion of the following:

     Rights - What are the rights to be included (use these in the zip
      file too!)?
     Guarantee - Will you guarantee refund? You better, especially
      if you are new.
     Delivery Terms - Enlist the timeframes and if they are manual
      or automatic.
     Support - Does your offer allot any support, installation or other
      such help?
     Upgrades - To be included or served as extra?
     Reviews - Did you get 5 to 10 members to review your offer
      before?

In some forums (like Warrior Forum), it is mandatory to charge a
discount price compared to what is being charged to the general
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public. This is because more people to go to buy in some particular
forum based marketplaces since they know that they are going to find
quality products a low price in those market places.

By asking for a lower price, you will definitely have higher chances of
making sales.
Remember, I talked of over delivery earlier. A good way to over
deliver is you can charge for one product and give 2 quality products
to the buyers. Or you can add 5 valuable E-books that will be of great
use to your customers or you can also, use the buy 1 and get 1 free
technique to attract more customers.

Many experienced marketers create an urgency in their products or
services by restricting their number clients or by restricting the period
of the offer. So, if you have a product or service, that you are
confident of , you too can create exigency by placing certain
limitations like the number sold.

Spend some time in posting your ad and trust me, it's worth every
penny or second that you invest. Owing to the large number of traffic
flow to the popular Internet Marketing forums, not only your products
or services but also you are going to get some good exposure. That
is why I repeatedly kept focusing on the importance of a QUALITY
product and the value of a well crafted offer.

Remember, a forum based marketplace has every power to make or
break your online business.




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      Before You Post Your Offer

You Must Spend Time On The Forums
You can utilize the forums daily in various ways:

   • You can just go over several fresh posts to find out "what's
     new" - thus you keep tab of every possible new thread of
     information.

   • You can ask questions for others to answer. Thus several
     opinions can be obtained.

   • You might be immensely wise and help others by answering the
     plethora of questions that everybody has.

   • You might not be immensely knowledgeable and yet want to
     convey your views regarding one particular thing.

   • There is the obvious advantage of utilizing the "search" function
     of the forums to get to know about a particular side of things in
     the industry.

Remember, people are usually asking for solutions and one of the
best places where people turn to for getting answers is forums.
Therefore, if you carefully take a look at the discussions and threads
in the forums, I am sure you will get a lot of ideas about what kind of
products are in demand currently.


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Based on the forum discussions, you can create a product and pre-
launch it in the forum marketplaces to test the waters and then finally
do the main launch.

Through your forum marketplace offer, you can not only test the
product but also do the improvements according to the buyer's
feedback and finally launch the main product that will definitely have
bigger chances of being a success.



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  Why Should You Post an Offer
    in a Forum Market Place?
Price testing
A forum based market place offer can be a great way to do price
testing before the main launch of your product.

For example, suppose you are selling a product for $10 in a forum
marketplace and you sell about 500 copies of it, which would mean
you got a positive response from your offer. Now what you can do is
raise the price of your product to $25 and bump the offer and see
what kind of response you get.

Sometimes you find that you sell half as much product at $25 as you
do at $10, but guess what happens if you do that math - you still have
more profit! Here's an additional advantage - the more someone pays
for your product, the less likely you're going to issuing refunds, and
the less likely you're going to have customer service issues.

First of all, because you have more of a margin to play with, you have
more resources to devote to customer service. Plus, a lot of people
will make an impulse $10 purchase knowing darn well they can get a
quick refund. But few people are going to make an impulse purchase
at a comparatively higher cost.

Since, it is very important to set the right price of a product a forum
based market place offer can actually be effective in helping you price
your product correctly, creating a balance between your target
audience's attitude along with your profit margin.
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To Develop Products and Improve on Them
There are ways to go about doing this.

First you could release the product on the forum. After you start
receiving feedback from your customers you can make improvements
and add to the product or expand on certain parts of it. The
technology changes everyday so you can always be improving your
products or finding way to update them.

The best example of product development I can think of would be the
automotive industry. Car designs go through constant updating in
order to suit the needs of the market. There are new models every
year. This is done keeping the market in mind. You will have to be
doing the same thing.

This example would suggest that similar features may not come up at
the same time but rather take considerable time. There is obviously
an improved product in mind but attempts at getting there might be
slow and steady. The idea is to create a demand and equip the model
accordingly. The revenue from earlier models can be used to create
improvements for newer models.

Enterprises like Microsoft are evolving new products every year by
basically improving on their earlier ones. There is new hardware to
which they equip with their software every year. This could be the
same idea used for other products like information products.

For example, an e-book, each update should make the product better
for the customer in some way. Make sure to update it regularly to stay
current with technology, trends and the market.
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  Tips about Your Forum Based
        Market Place Offer

To run your first forum based marketplace offer, leave some profit
margin for paying for your next product. This process if repeated
several times can keep your enterprise running continuously.
We can safely assume here that with these tips your first offer went
really well. The product could then be promoted on a higher scale
elsewhere. You might ever charge a higher price for it.

Try and keep in touch with the initial customers even if you are done
with them. You should always be available to answer their questions
in particular. These people are now your valued customers and they
need to be revisited again and again.

Create a self evaluation scheme for your offer's performance. And
find out what went wrong and where you can better things or what
strategy helps more or how and where and why the criticism is
coming from. Improvement can be the only concern.

The delivery quality and the value and the worth should be your
primary concern. You should try to make your product available with
audio, video, resale rights and so on.

Find a suitable partner and find common interests and try and
expand. You can always correct things and repeat. The momentum
shouldn't be lost. Also remember to carry on with your forum


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marketing even after you start making a stable monthly income.
Always be ready to go bigger.

Management of Your Offer
It is hard to believe some of the extents that people go to in order get
their offer noticed. There are “sneaky” little tricks to be seen, such as
asking people to post their feedback to your offer, in exchange for
some bonus products.

You can actually steer clear of the “Dark Side” and not have to resort
to tricks or stunts to garner the proper attention to your offer. You
should obviously always answer questions which are asked and
definitely offer your thanks to people that post their feedback or ask
helpful questions.

Don't make a bunch of stupid posts in an attempt to inflate your post
count. Doing it this way you will lose out on sales and people are
easily turned off by such tricks as soon as they find out about it and
finding out is not very difficult. Just make very good products which
sell well for a good price and you have done the only “trick”
necessary to having a successful offer.

Also, be sure take advantage of affiliate programs that offer the
capability to offer a dime sale of your products, meaning it increases
a small amount after each sale.

Two programs I use for this are Simple One Click and WSO Pro
(which is limited to use on the Warrior Forum). Both programs offer
instant pay via PayPal and have the ability to offer dimesales and
instant pay to your affiliates.

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    How Can You Leverage Your
    Business with a Forum Based
        Market Place Offer?

#1 - Thank Your Buyers
This is quite obvious, right? Yet the problem is that only one in four
Forum Market place sellers actually do this.

Just send them a thank you note as soon as they have bought the
product. This cannot be that tough. And there are subsequent
chances to this working for you later. To take it step further, you could
send them handwritten cards saying thank you if you happened to
capture their home address at purchase.


#2 - Build Your List
There are several ways of doing this anyway. For example, the
contact details could be furnished from payment receipts and added
to your list. This is legal but not the best way to go about list building.
Some services like Simple One Click and WSO Pro can integrate with
your autoresponder to add them automatically.

You could post a link to a squeeze page that might consist of an opt-
in form. Through that page, you could invite the buyers to sign up. Yet
this is again not the most effective method.

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You could give away a free report and tell your customers about the
same and convince them that it is going to be great for them if they
sign up to your mailing list and receive the free report as well periodic
updates. This is legal as well as one of the most effective methods.

By this method of list building, the subscribers will actually be looking
forward to your emails. They will be definitely attracted by your
promise of good quality and valuable content. So make sure you
keep your promises.

#3 - Construct your Database Carefully
If a complicated situation is beyond you to handle, you could perhaps
make use of a simple Excel file to create a record of data of all sorts
such as the client' name, contact details, date of ordering, product or
service nomenclature, the price and other useful data.

Why would you need to do this?

This is due to the fact that you want to trace the type and the number
of people who are your customers along with what you had to sell.
You also might want to do this because you need to know what you
can do to make them purchase from you again and what should you
offer and at what price, the next time.

There is also a general need to find more about the clients and their
usefulness to your business. This will further allow you to locate the
best kind of client to sell your product to and this could be extremely
useful in the future.




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The way I do this is to segment them in my autoresponder depending
on what product they bought from me.


#4 - Make an Offer with an Upsell
Many marketers fail to grasp the fact that the 'front-end' sale is most
often the smallest profit center. The main cash really arrives via the
back door which is the 'back end' sales you manage.

Do not wait too long. It could be a huge mistake. When you could
make the buyer a second 'follow up' offer. But when do you offer the
upsell? I personally nearly always do this right after the initial
purchase because the customer is still in the buying mood and
already has their credit card out and ready.

This of course cannot look like you are trying to force something on
your new customer. There should be considerable discretion in the
upsell product that you offer. This approach will help you to get more
sales and trust from your customers.


#5 - Please Follow up
This obviously does not mean go ahead and hammer on all your new
customers to starting buying other products. This simply means that
you should try to stay in contact with them.. Find out about how the
product is working for them and take their feedback in the form of
suggestions or you could even ask them if they need any help. Also
point out things about the product that they may have missed or not
may not have taken full advantage of.


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#6 - Bridge Your Way
There are two key things to a relation - time and involvement. You
need both in order to be successful. Only then can you hope to make
a difference in your customer's life. There should be a certain level of
trust with your business and clients.

Serve them with updates and good advice. This is often done with the
help of newsletters/ezine, or often by starting a blog or by forming a
customer-only forum. There could be teleseminars, live events and
group networking events of the sort of webinars or group coaching
intervals by which this can be done. I use Imnica to do this in my own
business.


#7 – Testimonials
The testimonials will start rolling in only after your customers are
extremely satisfied with your product. In today's world social proof is
very powerful. The best form of advertising is word of mouth. There
cannot be a fixed price for this. So be sure to take care of all of your
customers.


#8 - Consolidate your Affiliate Army
The greatest advantage of being a part of forums is that the buyers
are marketers themselves. (In the case of Warrior Forum) They are
people who deal in niche products. If you can convince them that you
product is of high quality and worth promoting your sales could
explode.


                        www.ForumFever.info


                                  ~28~
Forum Marketing Made Simple

They will recommend your product to a greater target audience. You
share a commission with them for each sale they make. The success
of an offer depends on your affiliates.


#9 - Locate Joint Venture Partners
You will find possible joint partners through the people that buy your
product. You have already shown them the quality of products you
produce. Also, it's easy to contact them because they are already
your customer so it's a “warm” proposal when you ask them to JV
with you.


#10 - Get a Big Launch
There is certain amount of momentum which has come about from
your offer and now there is big launch that you'd like to make. You
also have your testimonials right. You have affiliates for publicity and
JV partners to make that big launch that you have always hoped to
get.



You now have the tools and knowledge necessary to start forum
marketing to gain exposure for you and your online business. Now
get to action and start marketing in those forums.

To your success,




Coby Wright
                        www.ForumFever.info


                                 ~29~
Forum Marketing Made Simple




Don't Forget To Get Your Forum
   Marketing Software Here




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  • 1. Forum Marketing Made Simple Forum Marketing Made Simple By Coby Wright Proudly Brought To You By www.ForumFever.info www.ForumFever.info ~1~
  • 2. Forum Marketing Made Simple LEGAL NOTICE: The Publisher has striven to be as accurate and complete as possible in the creation of this report, notwithstanding the fact that he does not warrant or represent at any time that the contents within are accurate due to the rapidly changing nature of the Internet. While all attempts have been made to verify information provided in this publication, the Publisher assumes no responsibility for errors, omissions, or contrary interpretation of the subject matter herein. Any perceived slights of specific persons, peoples, or organizations are unintentional. In practical advice books, like anything else in life, there are no guarantees of income made. Readers are cautioned to rely on their own judgment about their individual circumstances to act accordingly. This book is not intended for use as a source of legal, business, accounting or financial advice. All readers are advised to seek services of competent professionals in legal, business, accounting, and finance field. You are encouraged to print this book for easy reading. www.ForumFever.info ~2~
  • 3. Forum Marketing Made Simple You Now Have Giveaway Rights To This Report You may share this report with your list or add it as a bonus to a product as long as you do not change any text or links or edit the material anyway whatsoever. If you want to earn money by sharing this report with others you can rebrand this report with your own affiliate links and earn 75% commission that is payed instantly to your PayPal for each sale you make. Even if the visitor doesn't buy right away your cookie is good forever. It does not expire in 6 months or even a year like others. Click here to rebrand this report and start making money today! If you have any questions concerning your rights to this product or rebranding it you can contact me anytime at www.CobyWright.com/contact. www.ForumFever.info ~3~
  • 4. Forum Marketing Made Simple Table of Contents Table of Contents..............................................................................4 Forum Marketing Online ..................................................................5 Why is Forum Marketing Effective? ...............................................7 Getting Started with Forum Marketing............................................9 Forum Marketing Etiquette ............................................................11 Forum Marketing Can Become an Addiction ...............................13 Importance of Forum Based Market places..................................15 Making Your Offer in a Forum Based Marketplace......................17 Before You Post Your Offer...........................................................19 Why Should You Post an Offer in a Forum Market Place?..........21 Price testing...................................................................................21 To Develop Products and Improve on Them.................................22 Tips about Your Forum Based Market Place Offer......................23 Management of Your Offer.............................................................24 How Can You Leverage Your Business with a Forum Based Market Place Offer?........................................................................25 #1 - Thank Your Buyers.................................................................25 #2 - Build Your List.........................................................................25 #3 - Construct your Database Carefully ........................................26 #4 - Make an Offer with an Upsell..................................................27 #5 - Please Follow up.....................................................................27 #6 - Bridge Your Way.....................................................................28 #7 – Testimonials...........................................................................28 #8 - Consolidate your Affiliate Army...............................................28 #9 - Locate Joint Venture Partners................................................29 #10 - Get a Big Launch..................................................................29 www.ForumFever.info ~4~
  • 5. Forum Marketing Made Simple Forum Marketing Online If you are serious about wanting to promote your website or product on the Internet, then going to available forums in your niche is one of the best options for you. These forums are easy to join and most will require no additional investment to be a member. Moreover, being a storehouse of information and accessible to anyone, these forums are an ideal way to go about advertising your web page. These forums serve as social networking centers, where topics are discussed and information is exchanged. Hence if you can find a forum where the discussions that are being held are relevant to your own product or niche, then the chances of getting your website noticed will be higher. So that should be your first step towards establishing yourself and your business online. But remember, as with all kinds of marketing…finesse is everything. Do not overdo your enthusiasm. It is best to act calm and not seem like you are desperate to market your product. Such over eagerness is often one of the most surefire ways to offend a potential customer. This could even lead to the possible ban of you and your website with the allegation of being a spammer. This is why it's best to find forums that are closely related to your niche. Once you find a potential forum here is what you do: Go and read the threads posted on the forum, figure out the best way you can to respond to the question being asked and give your best most informative post you can. www.ForumFever.info ~5~
  • 6. Forum Marketing Made Simple This is will help you build credibility as people on the forum start to trust you and see you to be helpful and genuine. Once that is done, all you have to do is subtly lead them to your website and that is that. (This is where the signature comes into play, but on that in a moment.) Forum marketing is an easy and profitable option for you because it is absolutely free and targeting a certain niche clientele is very easy. But try and avoid promoting your website on irrelevant forums or threads as it might hamper your reputation. (ie threads that do not relate or in forums that aren't in your niche.) So do it casually and always follow up and inquire about whether the directed person found your website or answer helpful. This is a great way to get feedback, which will help with improving your site, building client rapport, and seducing new customers to your site by a show of attentiveness to their likes and dislikes. But finally the most important thing to keep in mind is that although they are beneficial for marketing, these forums are for discussion not sales. So be subtle and the sales and subscribers will come. www.ForumFever.info ~6~
  • 7. Forum Marketing Made Simple Why is Forum Marketing Effective? As we just discussed, forum marketing is a form of marketing where you market your business through online discussion groups also known as forums. First you join a forum and start adding valuable and helpful posts to the discussions. However, you are not allowed to advertise or market directly through your posts, this is called spamming. After registering as a member of the forum you can create your own signature file (make sure the forum allows it). In this signature file you can hyperlink a keyword phrase back to your website, which when clicked will take the person to your site. The following are five benefits of forum marketing. 1. Always remember that when you are posting you are helping someone else out. It is a great feeling when you get to help the other person. If you are a believer in karma then forum marketing is definitely for you. 1. You get to learn a lot for free. When I first started my Forum Fever website I never felt the urge to post. I only read other people’s posts. I hung out in the Warrior Forum and learned a lot which essentially helped me grow my business. www.ForumFever.info ~7~
  • 8. Forum Marketing Made Simple 2. You’ll get free advertising from your signature. People read your posts and view your signature and click on the link to your website. This type of traffic is very passive and a great source of sales and subscribers to your mailing list. 3. Search engines will give you credit for a backlink when you hyperlink your keyword phrase back to your website. By simply making regular posts you will be generating backlinks to your website. Backlinks will help improve your site ranking in the search engines and eventually get you even more traffic. 4. One other huge benefit is that you get ideas to write articles about for your blog by going through the different kinds of questions people ask. A good question usually stimulates a lot of discussion. Such questions can easily be turned into good articles. These are just a few good reasons for you to include forum marketing as part of your overall marketing strategies. Be consistent and you will definitely reap the benefits. Get help with your posting and forum automation with this software www.ForumFever.info ~8~
  • 9. Forum Marketing Made Simple Getting Started with Forum Marketing Not all forums you come across will contain the type of people that you want to communicate with (ie your target market). You should choose 3-5 forums to focus your efforts on. Make sure that these forums have at least 10,000 posts, at least 1,000 members and that at least 10-15 new posts are added daily. Avoid forums which are hosted by your direct competitors; and those which are flooded by spam. Create your forum account as soon as possible. This is helpful because seniority often gives a lot of importance in many online forums: some even require you to wait a few days before posting for the first time or before adding a signature. When you first sign up, you’ll be asked to agree to their user agreements and posting guidelines. Read these documents carefully. A lot of people skip this and just click yes, because there is a lot of legal jargon. Some more important things are: • Whether or not you are allowed to include links in your posts? • If you are allowed to promote your business? • If you can use commercial messages as your signature? (can you use a signature?) www.ForumFever.info ~9~
  • 10. Forum Marketing Made Simple • Rather or not you can contact other members for business purposes on the forum? • If there are any restrictions on new members and/or privileges for old members? • Also, remember that your user name is the first thing that will be noticed by others. Pick one that’s memorable, simple and can be easily pronounced. You might want to use your real name and/or the name of your company. Do not use random combinations of letters and/or numbers, or something that’s significant to you alone. Create a profile that will help you establish credibility. Put up a description of your experience and expertise. Personal information can help break the ice, but don’t venture into topics that can alienate anyone, like race or religion or political affiliation. Above all, treat forum marketing as an integral part of your long-term strategy, not just a one-off opportunity to bombard the message- boards with information about your hot new product. www.ForumFever.info ~10~
  • 11. Forum Marketing Made Simple Forum Marketing Etiquette There is nothing that screams ‘brilliant opportunity’ like forum marketing. That is why if you don't want to lose out on serious profit making chances then you should read the basic forum rules posted on each site. This provides guidelines as to what can or cannot be done on the forum, helping you draw your limits as to how aggressive your marketing can be on these forums. Lack of this often leads to carelessness leading to unnecessary bans, and black marking against a particular user’s name. So reading the rules before joining any forum is absolutely crucial, and comprises the first rule in successful internet marketing. The rules of the forum are normally posted right in the beginning under the guidelines or general discussion category and are usually pretty straightforward. They will simply ban or disapprove any kind of aggressive self promotion and comments which may offend other forum members. But the degree of strictness in implementing these rules differs from site to site, so checking beforehand is the safest way to stay out of trouble. Remember that you are a fellow forum member who has joined because you liked the sound of the forum and the topics that were being discussed within it, you are not supposed to be there to market yourself directly. So don't start singing your own praises and that of www.ForumFever.info ~11~
  • 12. Forum Marketing Made Simple your website or product the moment you show up in a forum (or anytime really), especially without context. Read what is being discussed, see how the forum is (formal or informal) and respond to the discussions. Moreover get to know some of the people on the forum, build a rapport before you start bringing up the subject of your website subtly. Following threads also has another bonus. If you follow a thread then you can keep track of certain questions asked by other members, and if this falls into your area of expertise then you can help them out and also solve their problems, maybe even lead them subtly to your site containing matters about these issues through your signature. This not only gets traffic to your site but also adds to your reputation. Thus in time, your credibility will increase and people will flock to your site to get help or buy your product, increasing your sales. So just go ahead and follow this etiquette and you will be fine. www.ForumFever.info ~12~
  • 13. Forum Marketing Made Simple Forum Marketing Can Become an Addiction Forum marketing is a great way of marketing if you do it the right way. The reason is because forum marketing is basically showing your expertise while also building your reputation. It will definitely build your credibility if done the right way. But if done wrongly it reflects your lack of expertise and can turn your name to mud. Once you have decided on which forums you will use, go through the rules and regulations of each one. Each forum’s rules are different. Many have certain topics banned, some allow advertisement and some don’t. Some forums even prohibit the talk or promotion of other forums. First learn the rules of the road. Not following the rules will get you quickly banned in the forums. Even if it is allowed you should not advertise through your posts or comments. Rely on your signature to promote you and your business. Before you start actually posting anything go through the contents of the forum thoroughly at least once. By reading through the different threads on the forum you will have a good idea about what the forum is all about and the best way you can approach it. If you try to dive right in, that might have a negative impact within the forum and that is one thing you will definitely want to avoid. Always remember that along with the newcomers the best known brains in the online marketing industry are also posting in these www.ForumFever.info ~13~
  • 14. Forum Marketing Made Simple forums. So, before you post something on a given topic or try to comment on a post make sure you have the necessary expertise to make that comment. If you do not have the necessary knowledge and shoot from the hip then at best you will be ignored or at worse, experience marketers might call you out on it and that could ruin your reputation. There is nothing wrong in creating a little controversy in these forums. I sometimes acquire some of my best and most successful business ideas from forum topics that created some form of controversy. But this is entirely different than being called a fraud or making it completely obvious you have no clue what your talking about. Make replies to threads only when you can help someone with a problem. Forums are all about helping each other with a common goal, be sure to keep that in mind. If you can provide help then absolutely go for it. Good or bad the reputation you create in the forums will stick with you through out your internet marketing career. This Software Will Explode Your Forum Marketing Efforts www.ForumFever.info ~14~
  • 15. Forum Marketing Made Simple Importance of Forum Based Market places If you are really trying to make your mark online as an internet marketer then you need to search for forum that has market places within them. These forums are goldmines. Think about it for a moment. You have a targeted audience and daily traffic. A great example of a forum with a market place is the Warrior Forum. The Warrior Forum has a particular section of the forum where you can offer products and services for sale or even for free if you want to build a list. Currently it cost's $40 to post a thread in the Warrior “Special Offer” Section but it is very worth it, even if you are just giving away something for free. Here is why this is so powerful... The Warrior Forum, which if you don't know, is a Internet Marketing forum and so it is full of people who are interested in Internet Marketing. The audience ranges from complete newbies to seasoned veterans earning multiple thousands a month. So if you have an product in the Internet Marketing niche this forum is a great place to make lots of sales and reach a brand new audience or to launch a new product. www.ForumFever.info ~15~
  • 16. Forum Marketing Made Simple I have had several successful WSOs as they are called. I was able to put over 240 subscribers on my list when I offered a free WSO and have had 4 other successful ones in which I sold products. The key is to offer extreme value and a very low price. I like to start the WSO at a $1 and increase it after each sale. This helps get feedback and comments on your thread so you will get social proof and make even more sales. So remember if you can find a forum with a marketplace in it you have found a gold mine. Do your best to always deliver value to the forum with your products but also by making high quality posts in the main section of the forum. By doing this you will build your reputation while also being able to earn some great cash all while building a powerful mailing list. www.ForumFever.info ~16~
  • 17. Forum Marketing Made Simple Making Your Offer in a Forum Based Marketplace In an Internet Marketing Forum, all people want to display their superior copywriting skills while composing a special offer. I have listed some tips for you to follow while posting your ad in a forum based market place. Do not try to overdo the title - if your offer cannot be understood, there are high chances of you losing out. They should be directed to your sales page and the offer should be short and pin pointed. Apart from the headline, actual copy and payment method, you need to ensure the inclusion of the following:  Rights - What are the rights to be included (use these in the zip file too!)?  Guarantee - Will you guarantee refund? You better, especially if you are new.  Delivery Terms - Enlist the timeframes and if they are manual or automatic.  Support - Does your offer allot any support, installation or other such help?  Upgrades - To be included or served as extra?  Reviews - Did you get 5 to 10 members to review your offer before? In some forums (like Warrior Forum), it is mandatory to charge a discount price compared to what is being charged to the general www.ForumFever.info ~17~
  • 18. Forum Marketing Made Simple public. This is because more people to go to buy in some particular forum based marketplaces since they know that they are going to find quality products a low price in those market places. By asking for a lower price, you will definitely have higher chances of making sales. Remember, I talked of over delivery earlier. A good way to over deliver is you can charge for one product and give 2 quality products to the buyers. Or you can add 5 valuable E-books that will be of great use to your customers or you can also, use the buy 1 and get 1 free technique to attract more customers. Many experienced marketers create an urgency in their products or services by restricting their number clients or by restricting the period of the offer. So, if you have a product or service, that you are confident of , you too can create exigency by placing certain limitations like the number sold. Spend some time in posting your ad and trust me, it's worth every penny or second that you invest. Owing to the large number of traffic flow to the popular Internet Marketing forums, not only your products or services but also you are going to get some good exposure. That is why I repeatedly kept focusing on the importance of a QUALITY product and the value of a well crafted offer. Remember, a forum based marketplace has every power to make or break your online business. www.ForumFever.info ~18~
  • 19. Forum Marketing Made Simple Before You Post Your Offer You Must Spend Time On The Forums You can utilize the forums daily in various ways: • You can just go over several fresh posts to find out "what's new" - thus you keep tab of every possible new thread of information. • You can ask questions for others to answer. Thus several opinions can be obtained. • You might be immensely wise and help others by answering the plethora of questions that everybody has. • You might not be immensely knowledgeable and yet want to convey your views regarding one particular thing. • There is the obvious advantage of utilizing the "search" function of the forums to get to know about a particular side of things in the industry. Remember, people are usually asking for solutions and one of the best places where people turn to for getting answers is forums. Therefore, if you carefully take a look at the discussions and threads in the forums, I am sure you will get a lot of ideas about what kind of products are in demand currently. www.ForumFever.info ~19~
  • 20. Forum Marketing Made Simple Based on the forum discussions, you can create a product and pre- launch it in the forum marketplaces to test the waters and then finally do the main launch. Through your forum marketplace offer, you can not only test the product but also do the improvements according to the buyer's feedback and finally launch the main product that will definitely have bigger chances of being a success. My Forum Fever software will help you to browse the forums and also help to automate your postings so you can become an expert in your niche even quicker. Check out Forum Fever now by clicking here www.ForumFever.info ~20~
  • 21. Forum Marketing Made Simple Why Should You Post an Offer in a Forum Market Place? Price testing A forum based market place offer can be a great way to do price testing before the main launch of your product. For example, suppose you are selling a product for $10 in a forum marketplace and you sell about 500 copies of it, which would mean you got a positive response from your offer. Now what you can do is raise the price of your product to $25 and bump the offer and see what kind of response you get. Sometimes you find that you sell half as much product at $25 as you do at $10, but guess what happens if you do that math - you still have more profit! Here's an additional advantage - the more someone pays for your product, the less likely you're going to issuing refunds, and the less likely you're going to have customer service issues. First of all, because you have more of a margin to play with, you have more resources to devote to customer service. Plus, a lot of people will make an impulse $10 purchase knowing darn well they can get a quick refund. But few people are going to make an impulse purchase at a comparatively higher cost. Since, it is very important to set the right price of a product a forum based market place offer can actually be effective in helping you price your product correctly, creating a balance between your target audience's attitude along with your profit margin. www.ForumFever.info ~21~
  • 22. Forum Marketing Made Simple To Develop Products and Improve on Them There are ways to go about doing this. First you could release the product on the forum. After you start receiving feedback from your customers you can make improvements and add to the product or expand on certain parts of it. The technology changes everyday so you can always be improving your products or finding way to update them. The best example of product development I can think of would be the automotive industry. Car designs go through constant updating in order to suit the needs of the market. There are new models every year. This is done keeping the market in mind. You will have to be doing the same thing. This example would suggest that similar features may not come up at the same time but rather take considerable time. There is obviously an improved product in mind but attempts at getting there might be slow and steady. The idea is to create a demand and equip the model accordingly. The revenue from earlier models can be used to create improvements for newer models. Enterprises like Microsoft are evolving new products every year by basically improving on their earlier ones. There is new hardware to which they equip with their software every year. This could be the same idea used for other products like information products. For example, an e-book, each update should make the product better for the customer in some way. Make sure to update it regularly to stay current with technology, trends and the market. www.ForumFever.info ~22~
  • 23. Forum Marketing Made Simple Tips about Your Forum Based Market Place Offer To run your first forum based marketplace offer, leave some profit margin for paying for your next product. This process if repeated several times can keep your enterprise running continuously. We can safely assume here that with these tips your first offer went really well. The product could then be promoted on a higher scale elsewhere. You might ever charge a higher price for it. Try and keep in touch with the initial customers even if you are done with them. You should always be available to answer their questions in particular. These people are now your valued customers and they need to be revisited again and again. Create a self evaluation scheme for your offer's performance. And find out what went wrong and where you can better things or what strategy helps more or how and where and why the criticism is coming from. Improvement can be the only concern. The delivery quality and the value and the worth should be your primary concern. You should try to make your product available with audio, video, resale rights and so on. Find a suitable partner and find common interests and try and expand. You can always correct things and repeat. The momentum shouldn't be lost. Also remember to carry on with your forum www.ForumFever.info ~23~
  • 24. Forum Marketing Made Simple marketing even after you start making a stable monthly income. Always be ready to go bigger. Management of Your Offer It is hard to believe some of the extents that people go to in order get their offer noticed. There are “sneaky” little tricks to be seen, such as asking people to post their feedback to your offer, in exchange for some bonus products. You can actually steer clear of the “Dark Side” and not have to resort to tricks or stunts to garner the proper attention to your offer. You should obviously always answer questions which are asked and definitely offer your thanks to people that post their feedback or ask helpful questions. Don't make a bunch of stupid posts in an attempt to inflate your post count. Doing it this way you will lose out on sales and people are easily turned off by such tricks as soon as they find out about it and finding out is not very difficult. Just make very good products which sell well for a good price and you have done the only “trick” necessary to having a successful offer. Also, be sure take advantage of affiliate programs that offer the capability to offer a dime sale of your products, meaning it increases a small amount after each sale. Two programs I use for this are Simple One Click and WSO Pro (which is limited to use on the Warrior Forum). Both programs offer instant pay via PayPal and have the ability to offer dimesales and instant pay to your affiliates. www.ForumFever.info ~24~
  • 25. Forum Marketing Made Simple How Can You Leverage Your Business with a Forum Based Market Place Offer? #1 - Thank Your Buyers This is quite obvious, right? Yet the problem is that only one in four Forum Market place sellers actually do this. Just send them a thank you note as soon as they have bought the product. This cannot be that tough. And there are subsequent chances to this working for you later. To take it step further, you could send them handwritten cards saying thank you if you happened to capture their home address at purchase. #2 - Build Your List There are several ways of doing this anyway. For example, the contact details could be furnished from payment receipts and added to your list. This is legal but not the best way to go about list building. Some services like Simple One Click and WSO Pro can integrate with your autoresponder to add them automatically. You could post a link to a squeeze page that might consist of an opt- in form. Through that page, you could invite the buyers to sign up. Yet this is again not the most effective method. www.ForumFever.info ~25~
  • 26. Forum Marketing Made Simple You could give away a free report and tell your customers about the same and convince them that it is going to be great for them if they sign up to your mailing list and receive the free report as well periodic updates. This is legal as well as one of the most effective methods. By this method of list building, the subscribers will actually be looking forward to your emails. They will be definitely attracted by your promise of good quality and valuable content. So make sure you keep your promises. #3 - Construct your Database Carefully If a complicated situation is beyond you to handle, you could perhaps make use of a simple Excel file to create a record of data of all sorts such as the client' name, contact details, date of ordering, product or service nomenclature, the price and other useful data. Why would you need to do this? This is due to the fact that you want to trace the type and the number of people who are your customers along with what you had to sell. You also might want to do this because you need to know what you can do to make them purchase from you again and what should you offer and at what price, the next time. There is also a general need to find more about the clients and their usefulness to your business. This will further allow you to locate the best kind of client to sell your product to and this could be extremely useful in the future. www.ForumFever.info ~26~
  • 27. Forum Marketing Made Simple The way I do this is to segment them in my autoresponder depending on what product they bought from me. #4 - Make an Offer with an Upsell Many marketers fail to grasp the fact that the 'front-end' sale is most often the smallest profit center. The main cash really arrives via the back door which is the 'back end' sales you manage. Do not wait too long. It could be a huge mistake. When you could make the buyer a second 'follow up' offer. But when do you offer the upsell? I personally nearly always do this right after the initial purchase because the customer is still in the buying mood and already has their credit card out and ready. This of course cannot look like you are trying to force something on your new customer. There should be considerable discretion in the upsell product that you offer. This approach will help you to get more sales and trust from your customers. #5 - Please Follow up This obviously does not mean go ahead and hammer on all your new customers to starting buying other products. This simply means that you should try to stay in contact with them.. Find out about how the product is working for them and take their feedback in the form of suggestions or you could even ask them if they need any help. Also point out things about the product that they may have missed or not may not have taken full advantage of. www.ForumFever.info ~27~
  • 28. Forum Marketing Made Simple #6 - Bridge Your Way There are two key things to a relation - time and involvement. You need both in order to be successful. Only then can you hope to make a difference in your customer's life. There should be a certain level of trust with your business and clients. Serve them with updates and good advice. This is often done with the help of newsletters/ezine, or often by starting a blog or by forming a customer-only forum. There could be teleseminars, live events and group networking events of the sort of webinars or group coaching intervals by which this can be done. I use Imnica to do this in my own business. #7 – Testimonials The testimonials will start rolling in only after your customers are extremely satisfied with your product. In today's world social proof is very powerful. The best form of advertising is word of mouth. There cannot be a fixed price for this. So be sure to take care of all of your customers. #8 - Consolidate your Affiliate Army The greatest advantage of being a part of forums is that the buyers are marketers themselves. (In the case of Warrior Forum) They are people who deal in niche products. If you can convince them that you product is of high quality and worth promoting your sales could explode. www.ForumFever.info ~28~
  • 29. Forum Marketing Made Simple They will recommend your product to a greater target audience. You share a commission with them for each sale they make. The success of an offer depends on your affiliates. #9 - Locate Joint Venture Partners You will find possible joint partners through the people that buy your product. You have already shown them the quality of products you produce. Also, it's easy to contact them because they are already your customer so it's a “warm” proposal when you ask them to JV with you. #10 - Get a Big Launch There is certain amount of momentum which has come about from your offer and now there is big launch that you'd like to make. You also have your testimonials right. You have affiliates for publicity and JV partners to make that big launch that you have always hoped to get. You now have the tools and knowledge necessary to start forum marketing to gain exposure for you and your online business. Now get to action and start marketing in those forums. To your success, Coby Wright www.ForumFever.info ~29~
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