How to Promote Your product on the Forums?

May 08 2009

Posted by Webmasters-central.com as Web site Promotion

EIGHT Internet Marketing forums you should be visiting:

Here are few excellent forums you should be going and do forum marketing. (in no particular order)

http://warriorforum.com/
http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/index.php
http://www.searchengineforums.com/bin/Ultimate.cgi
http://www.webproworld.com/index.php
http://associateprograms.com/discus/index.php
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=87

Have you heard of “Forum Marketing”? You visit forums focused on your niche and participate and help others … At the same time you promote your service or product.

1. Your signature file:

Most of the forums allow you to carry a 4 – 6 lines of signature files with your name. So these files appears below your name when you answer a forum thread.

You can keep
* your product link
* free ecourse
* your ezine subscription form
* your product coupon code etc …

2. Use the section ‘Special offers to Forum Members’ Forum:

You may see a seperate forum like ‘Special discount to Forum members’ on certain forums. Here you can advertise your product or offer special discounts to forum members.

Tips while posting in these type of forums-

* Add an image of your product.
* Use the html code to highlight the benefits.
* Hyperlink the web page or product link.
* State your discount in bold letters.

3. Seek partners for joint ventures:

Choose a forum appropriate for your product or business. For example if you are selling reseller hosting service then choose web designers forums.

Most web designers prefer to host their clients on own servers, so there will be more chances for you to get partners here.

4. Banner advertising or sponsoring:

Some forums sell advertising space and look for sponsors to sponsor the forum categories. If you want to act as a sponsor, you pay them like monthly or yearly fee and they put your web site or product link on the forum index or at the sub forum you choose.

This sponsoring is very cost effective way of advertising than banner advertising.

Author: Radhika (c)
http://www.webmasters-central.com/

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