10 Commandments To Maximizing Your Time In Forum Participation

[Nelson Tan]

Here are 10 very simple and practical tips for you to maximize the ROI out of your time spent in online forums.

1) Gain an idea/keep in touch of what is happening in the Internet Marketing scene (strategies, product, news).

2) Help others as well as yourself to solve a 'how to' problem whenever it crops up. This applies to the universal law of "Give before you can receive".

3) Promote your product or other products with your affiliate links (using redirects) when you recommend solutions.

4) Create a sense of trust and bonding among fellow marketers in which real friendship can be establish over time (a sense of belonging).

5) Share and learn from others through a mutual exchange of experience.

6) Get a word-of-mouth recommendation to a proven product or service from people who have tried it instead of spending time to analyze various products on the Internet.

7) Give and receive encouragement and motivation to/from fellow marketers.

Participate in Joint Ventures to expand your business.

9) Give special offers (discounts, giveaways etc.) that are only available in the forum.

10) Give free products only to members of the forum.

[Nelson Tan]

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Well thought tips.
I hope the No 10 won't be misunderstood to mean sending people to subscribe to a list.
I Will humorously add also don't login to the Cokoye when drunk.
When have any problem with expert, guru, professor or even god, try settling the issue outside forum.

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[Nelson Tan]

No. 10 depends. I prefer to get subscribers

[Nelson Tan]

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All webmasters like getting subscribers, that is why is easily abused and misleading to be called products only to members of the forum.

[robyteem]

3) Promote your product or other products with your affiliate links (using redirects) when you recommend solutions.

you know very few forums allow sales promotes or even affiliates marketing in their forum. Google also doesn't like sales content.

[robyteem]

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Unless you don't follow forum rule, for example there is Cokoye marketing guide here http://cokoye.com/internet-marketing-discussions/cokoye-step-by-step-forum-marketing-guide
You don't go on forum where people are discusing issues important to them posting about your products.

[samyakonline]

Majority of people take forum participation as the platform
to convince  and advertise the products or services they
deal in. Forum  participation is an online affair to learn and to
inform. Followup of the information, once served by you, is
the key to get maximum benefit from forum participation.   

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Majority of people take forum participation as the platform
to convince  and advertise the products or services they
deal in. Forum  participation is an online affair to learn and to
inform. Followup of the information, once served by you, is
the key to get maximum benefit from forum participation.   

Forum marketing requires commitment, seriousness and goal e.g 10 post and 30 replies everyday.  No again to spam here and there and run away, the posted will be deleted by admin and your efforts wasted. When you genuinely reply other people's posts and make yours it makes sense in every angle, your business and you will be looked in positive way thus raise reputation that is required to sell in online forum and entire worldwide web.

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