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When Should You Build a List?

You should build a list as soon as you possibly can. Everyone is different. Some things are going to work one way for someone and the totally opposite for someone else. One thing is for sure, the sooner you start, the faster you will make MORE money.

I would venture to say that if your an absolute beginner at marketing products online then you may want to start a blog first. This way you can learn a little about getting traffic, uploading files and registering a domain, which are all things  you’ll need to know when building your list. Plus you’ll be able to start making a little money ASAP and actually use your blog to build your list too. Building a list takes a little more patients and if done right will take a little longer to get to a sale.

If you are familiar with uploading files and some of the technical stuff then building a list first might work better for you, but I think more times than not, that people new to Internet Marketing aren’t privy to these things.

So basically to sum up when to “Build A List?” ” The Sooner the Better.”

What are You Going to Need?

The first thing you’ll need is an auto responder. The two more popular auto responders are AWeber and Get Response. Then your going to need traffic just like you would a blog. Just use the same methods that you use to get traffic to your blog, the only other thing that you can do that you may not do with a blog is start a small pay per click  campaign.

You’ll need a product or a really BIG SECRET. You can find plenty of resale rights products out there for free. You may want to look at the product very closely if it’s free, because it’s quality might be really poor and need some brushing up. It might be so bad that you couldn’t pay people to take it, so you really need to take a good look at it first. You could also make a small investment for one, which isn’t too much, yet more likely to be better quality. Consider upgrading when you find a good resource for resale rights products to save time in the long run.

If you just want to give away a “Secret” just offer a video to let your customer in on it. You should make sure that this is something real good though, so your not telling someone something they already know.

How to Keep Customers on Your List

In order to build a list you have to make sure you lose as few people as possible. If  people unsubscribe from your list  more than people are subscribing the building process is going to take a very long time right. So since your trying to build a list as fast as possible there is a couple of things you need to do to manage your list the right way.

1. Start by sending out valuable content right off the bat. Something that is going to help them out. You want to send anywhere from 20 to 30 e-mails before you consider asking your customer to purchase from you. This is something you can test out and see what works better for you, but make sure you build a relationship with them first.
2. Stay in contact with your list on a regular basis. You don’t want to overwhelm your customer either, a good rule of thumb is to send out one e-mail a day, maybe two if there is enough value there. This way you’ll also leave some openings for product launch’s you may be promoting in the future.
3. Keep the content as fresh as possible, so your not just echoing what someone else is saying, always be on the search for the hot content.

Why is a List So Important?

There are several reasons why a “List” is so important. The most popular reason is no surprise. MORE MONEY. When your selling products from your blog one person is going to be worth say $30. When someone is signed up for your mailing list, you now have the potential of  making 2 - 10 more sales from them. So instead of one customer being worth $30 they are now possibly worth $60 - $300 or more.

You are now also developing a relationship with them and promoting products is easier when someone has a bond with you. This trust will translate into more sales without a doubt.

“Social Media” is another way to build your list, although it can be a little tricky. The best Marketers on the Internet are still running tests to see what method works best with “Social Media.”

If your interested in using “Social Media” I would not go it alone. You really should look to one of the experts that have already gone through the trial and error process. Ryan Deiss is one of these people and has figured out a way to build a big list fast with Twitter. The method he has come up with works with just Twitter and nothing else, but it works amazing. Some people don’t agree with Ryan’s  method including his good friend Perry Belcher, but it works and it works really good. I highly recommend you check out what Ryan has to offer because he always puts out amazing products and Twitter is so easy to use you’ll be building a big list in no time.

“Twitter List-Building” by Ryan Deiss

Feel free to leave a comment whether you like the post or didn’t like it let me know. If you have any unanswered questions please ask I will do what I can to help.

If you have a blog you are probably looking for ways to market that blog. The first things that probably come to mind are how can you do this online. There are also a lot of ebooks and other blogs out there telling you exactly how to market your blog online. There is everything from article marketing to posting in forums. What a lot of people don’t think of is there is another way to market that not many people are even considering doing that you can take full advantage of right now. You can market your blog offline too. There are some very simple yet, not talked about ways ( from what I’ve seen anyway) too market and advertise your blog offline and be very effective.  So, what are some of these methods you may ask, well here they are:

1. Conventions or Conferences: If you see any of these two things taking place in your area it would be a very smart thing for you to attend. When you get there you may find that your one of the few with promotion of your blog or product in mind. You could even have a shirt printed with your blog URL on it.
2. Business Cards: This may seem like a no brainer, but how many people do you see doing this or talking about it for that matter? The great thing about business cards is you can virtually hand them out anywhere and to almost anybody. One thing you should keep in mind if your going to have some printed up is make sure they stand out and catch the eye. I have even seen business’s that have a board or a place specifically for people to post their business cards. Hell, throw them up in the air and let the wind catch them. ( Just kidding, don’t do this please.)
3. Postcards: You could have some eye catching post cards printed up and either pay to have them mailed out or mail them out yourself. The good thing about post cards is they don’t have to be opened and people will more than likely just throw them over by their computer were it can grab their attention.
4. Blogger Meet Ups: If there are any of these in your area I would take full advantage of showing up. Meeting up with other bloggers is a great way to make new connections and potential promoters for your blog.
5. Stickers: This is another great way to advertise your website or blog. You can put one on your car or I just recently read about a guy who brought some stickers to a gathering he attended and the ended up everywhere, on people and in pictures.
6. Offline Newsletters
7. Flyer’s
8. Newspaper Ads
9. Yellow Pages
10. Radio Advertising
11. Brochures
12. Classified Ads

Now I realize that these may cost anywhere from a little bit of money to a lot of money, but it may be something for you to think about in the future.

The best thing for you to do, especially if your new to making money online, is to just experiment with the least expensive of the ideas and put just a little money in to it to see if it’s going to stick. If it does then you can run with it and invest more money into it.

The main idea of this post is to get you to think outside of the box and not get stuck thinking that all your efforts have to be online. There is a whole market out there waiting for you to grab their attention in the offline world.

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When you start Internet Marketing you suddenly realize that this work from home thing is going to take a minute, and time seems to fly right on by. If your trying to learn about your niche and trying to promote it then you have even less time to play with. Not to mention writing articles and posting to your blog. Typing 500 words or more seems to be the biggest hurdle of them all. Especially the article marketing side of things.

Well I have an idea that might work for some. Many of you probably already have this one down pat but some may not. It also may never cross some peoples minds to do something about it. Or how easy doing this actually is. This idea is simply learning how to type. If your struggling when posting to your blog or doing article marketing then learning to type is what you need to do.

You might say that you would be losing to much time by doing such a thing, but you are losing more time by struggling with the seek and destroy method. Plus, learning to type will only take a few days or maybe a week. It will take a little more time getting your speed up, but you can learn the basics in no time.

To give you an idea of the basics of typing is that each finger is assigned a letter, or several letters. Let’s start with your right hand for instance and starting from your index finger the letters assigned would be: J,K,L, ;  and your thumb is always used for the space bar ( it doesn’t matter which one). Then you get your fingers used to these letters by typing: jjj,kkk,lll, ;;; , and then you do the left hand. You can also practice this to music and you type the letter’s to the beat of the music, slowly speeding up the tempo as you go. Next you have the letters above and below each of the main letters, for instance, the right hand again, the letters assigned to each finger starting with the index: y,u,i,o,p. Your going to have an extra one assigned for the upper keys and lower keys. Speaking of lower keys you would assign them the same way. Your right hand would therefore be: n,m, comma, period, ? . Once you know the letters your fingers are assigned to you practice variations of  typing letters, then start typing words when that becomes comfortable.

I would definitely learn to type if you don’t know how, it will save you a lot of time and may make article marketing and other forms of marketing more pleasurable. Like I said previously it really doesn’t take long to learn how to type at all. This post may have just confused you of the whole process, so your best bet may be to get a good software program to show you how. If you look over to the left of this post in the sidebar you’ll see a Clickbank search engine. Just type, “Learn to Type” in that search engine and you’ll find all kinds of programs to help you learn how to type. You can also just click this link and go straight to a page with products listed on it.

I hope this has helped some of you that may have thought it would take months to learn to type and is the reason why you never considered doing it. It really isn’t very hard at all and knowing how to type will up your productivity considerably.

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please fell free to leave them in the comment area. Thank You,     Jay Picklo.

Getting Someones Attention

When you are writing anything whether it be a classified, a blog post an article or anything else that has to do with selling something and getting someones attention you need to very careful about how you are doing this. I see dozens of people crying out every day in desperation and can tell they aren’t selling anything. We as customers have that sixth sense ( yes we are all customers at one point or another) which is basically our subconscious notifying us when something isn’t quite right. This sense or alarm can be triggered in many ways. If you think your going to copy and paste your way to financial freedom, think again. People will be able to tell when your not being genuine and will be immediately alerted by there subconscious. Your personality is what is going to set you apart from everyone else because there is only one you and you can only be you. : ) ( phew!!) Now , don’t go throw away all those plr articles you have, you can still use them, but instead, read them, learn something, then write about it in your own words. You want to get someones attention, but you don’t want to get it in the wrong way.

Caps and Punctuation

First rule: Bigger letters does not mean bigger sales. If you are placing a classified ad and you capitalize every letter in the title you are not going to get many clicks. If you capitalize most of the letters in the body you won’t get many clicks. For one, putting a word in all CAPS  is the same a yelling, and two, it yells “I’m desperate please help.” The same goes with punctuation, you don’t want to make everything an exclamation because it’s not. You have to strategically place your caps and punctuation in order to grab your prospects attention. Over use of these and you are surely going to trigger the alarm in the head of the prospect. It’s kind of like music in a way, by leading someone into the crescendo. Let me see if I can give you one good example of this with a real program I promote.

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Maybe not the best in the world but you can see how the caps and punctuation can be more effective if not over used. You want to use these at the time your going to describe the product and the best benefit the product or program offers. If you ask a question remember to put a question mark and not a exclamation point. Most ads will be longer than that but just remember to use an exclamation point once, maybe twice, but only if it is a statement that really deserves it. This also depends on what your writing, if you are writing an article of course your going to have an opportunity to place a few more here an there, yet STRATEGICALLY! I guess the main point is, “Don’t Over Do It.” Another way to use caps is to capitalize the first letter of  every word when describing your products name or a quote that you want to hit home, like I have just done. Doing little things like this will boost your click through rate because it says basically “I’m Confident” and everything I write doesn’t have to be overly punctuated or capped because I know what I am talking about. Peoples sixth sense will pick this up and you will see much better results.

The Best Way to Acquire or Learn This Skill

There is one way that I have learned to pick up on the skill of writing, proper punctuation and strategic placement of caps. It is a very easy yet hard thing to do. Actually it is easy to do, but it’s hard to motivate yourself to do it. This is what I think I’ll call O.P.S. This is simply Other Peoples Stuff and  reading it.

If you read a lot of articles and blog posts by people who have been doing this for a while you will be surprised as to how it sinks in and you will slowly start seeing it come out when you decide to write something. Two of my favorite blogs ( there are more of course) are:

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com

Problogger.net

You may have different ones, but if you haven’t been following anyone yet these are two of the most successful bloggers on the Internet from what I have seen and would highly suggest checking out the quality content they put out. Just don’t forget who pointed you in the right direction. : )

So try these tactics out for yourself and let me know WHEN not IF  you see a difference in your results. Just let me know by leaving a comment below. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to put them  in the comment area.

One of the best ways to get traffic to your website, blog or product is through media. YouTube is the largest media provider on the Internet as we all surely know. Yet, just throwing a video up and putting a link somewhere isn’t all that is takes to make your video go viral with YouTube. There are some things you must do to optimize your YouTube video that I have just learned from a couple of my mentors Yaro Stark and Gideon Shalwick.

One of the first things you must do is provide valuable content. Something that is going to give the viewer a reason to watch your YouTube video.  Basically this is content that is going to show people how to do something they wouldn’t other wise know. It is also content that isn’t all over the Internet already. How to videos are the hottest types of videos on the Internet right now.  Make your video interesting, funny, controversial, and ask your viewers questions and have them leave thier answers in the comment area.

The next thing is something a lot of people don’t bother doing. This is optimizing your channel.  For instance, in the description area for your video the first thing you will want there is the url to your blog or product and in the profile area.  You can also use annotations to put your url in the video. You’ll also want to put the appropriate tags for your video in the tags area. This will greatly increase your chances of being in the top spot of the search engine results.  

Another thing that you should do when setting up your YouTube video is select some targeted keywords and strategically place them in places such as the headline area, the tags , comments area and in the description area. Do keep in mind even though you want all these areas to be keyword rich you also do not want to over saturate them. 

 Link your videos from wherever you can. Such as http://delicious.com/ or http://digg.com/, your blog ( of course) and forums. Use Twitter and Facebook to promote your videos. Send a link to your video to your email list if  you have one.

You will also want to ping your YouTube channel. One of the more popular places to do this is http://www.pingoat.com/. One final thing that you can do is search for other videos in the same category. Click on one that interests you. Below the video you’ll see a section for video responses. Post your video as a video response.

If you take these steps you will have a much better chance to  increase the traffic to your YouTube video and make it go Viral.

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If you have been working on a blog or posting articles then you probably know how hard it can be at times to come up with content for your blogs or articles. If you have been listening to some of the top Internet Marketing experts then you have probably learned a few tricks for coming up with content. Some of the ebooks and articles I have read talk about doing searches and visiting forums to see what questions people are asking or what they are searching for to get ideas. I’m sure these strategies are good ones, in fact I know they are, yet they can be very time consuming. So, what I have done is come up with another strategy to save some time.

Here’s what I have come up with. Now some of you may already be in a niche that you have a lot of knowledge in, but this may come in handy for you on certain days as well. Maybe your having a bad day and are experiencing a bad case of writers block. If you are new to the niche your trying to work with I think this strategy will work great for you.

• Go to your favorite blogs and do your research there. I have noticed when I am reading someone Else’s blog I will suddenly come up with an idea of something to write about. I don’t know why this happens, it just does. If nothing pops into your head, just take one of the articles, absorb and understand it, then go write about the subject on your blog. I am by no means saying copy anyone, your post should be 100% original. By doing this your going to be helping someone who may not have read about the subject and you are learning at the same time. If you draw a blank on a particular point refer back to the article just to refresh your memory. But again I say, do not copy anything, this should be done in your own words. The way I see it is everybody starts somewhere, and as  long as your trying to learn, be original and help someone then this strategy is ok.
• If your like me you probably have 10,000 free ebooks on your computer. Take one of the short ebooks or a chapter of one of the long ones and read it. Fully digest the material so that you know and understand it. Now you know something that someone may not know and can therefore make a post on the subject.
• Read some of  your own past posts. You have most likely mentioned something in some of  them that could be elaborated on.

I try to get all my information from the most popular blogs and ebooks. Try to focus on the names you are hearing about all the time. Here are a couple of my favorite blogs to get ideas from:

http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/

http://blog.affiliatetip.com/

http://www.surefirewealth.com/

If you don’t have a lot of  ebooks I recently came across a website with so many free ebooks it made my head spin. I think I spent an hour downloading material and still only have about 45% of what was there. If you would like to check it out go to PLR Wholesalercom. There is seriously so much material here it will be coming out of your ears. So don’t get frustrated if you can’t think of anything to post, just go read and learn. Something will come to you one way or another.

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               Well as you guys no doubt know, to really succeed with our Internet marketing careers, we need to have great digital products that convert all of our qualified leads into real, cash-paying customers.  For many people, coming up with products will involve them creating them on their own, or it may involve them commissioning other professionals to do the hard work for them.

Chances are though, like most smart internet marketers, you probably want to save a whole lot of time and money.  After all, if you were to create your own e-book for instance, expect to spend tens of hours doing the research you need, and then writing the book itself – and that’s if you’re only semi-decent at writing.  If you’re a good writer, it will still take you hours and hours and if you’re terrible, well, forget it, because your e-book won’t sell!

Now, you certainly won’t go wrong by hiring a good writer to create a really good e-book, but think about how much a good writer is going to cost you.  Wouldn’t you rather spend that money on getting visitors to your site so you can make more money?

I’m pretty sure, like me, you’re always looking for ways to save time and money on your Internet marketing business.  I’ll easily spend hours each week just reading up on the latest Internet marketing happenings and news, in the endless search of improving the way I do business.  In my latest search, I came across a really unique website, that’s well worth you checking out if you are serious about time and money saving:

PLR Wholesaler.com

Now the name is pretty self-explanatory.  This site was created by an Internet marketer for Internet marketers, and it’s a one-stop shop for PLR material.  E-books, reports, training videos, e-courses – you name it! 

The really wonderful thing about this site though is that membership is free.  You can sign up as a VIP Member, which won’t cost you a cent, and you can download a huge amount of PLR material for free!

You can sell that material yourself as part of your own Internet marketing business, and of course, you can change any part of the product to suit your target audience. 

Don’t be put off by the free part either, in terms of the quality of the material that’s on offer, because I’ve downloaded the free PLR stuff myself and it’s of a really high quality.

I’ve paid plenty of writers in my time to create digital products, and I can honestly say that the quality of this material is just as good, if not better – without me having to pay the money I would pay a writer.

In addition to the free PLR material you can download as VIP Member, you can also access heaps of great information about how to improve your internet marketing business.

You also have the option of paying a small one-time fee to become a Full Member of the site, and that will entitle you to even more fantastic PLR products to download and sell, plus you can become an affiliate of the PLR Wholesaler website itself, and receive a great commission whenever somebody you refer signs up as a Full Member.

Regardless of whether you’re a paying member or not, you will have access to a regular e-newsletter that gets sent out, and if the testimonials are anything to go by, it’s definitely one e-newsletter that’s worth your while. 

I can vouch for that too, and I am a real pro when it comes to deleting emails that bore me!

So, please do me a favor and join now – this is a site that’s definitely worth your time regardless of your level of experience in internet marketing, so visit it now at:

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I promise you won’t be disappointed.

Until next time, may you keep on selling!

Jay Picklo

how-cbmall-creates-autopilot-income                  If you have been looking for ways to make money at home then you have most likely heard of Clickbank. If you haven’t heard of Clickbank let me tell you a little about it. Clickbank is a place where you can sell other peoples digital  products as an affiliate or you can sell your own digital products through Clickbank as a vendor. Being an affiliate is the easiest way to make money online. This is because you don’t have to have your own product. Producing a product can be very time consuming and people that are just getting started with online self employment want to make money as fast as they can. Learning to produce your own product comes with time and experience. So the best way to get started is to be an affiliate. Clickbank is the largest retailer in the world  for marketing digital products. You can set up a free account here.  Another good place to start is learning resell rights and how to rebrand books. Harvey Segal, who is the owner of “Clickbank Success Forum”, has written a series of books dealing with this subject inparticular. Just one of his many very informative books is ”Clickbank for Newbies”and gives you a detailed account of how to sell CB products and not lose commissions.  I have been doing very well with his products and the many tips and tools he provides. So if your interested in generating income online I would highly recommend being an affiliate and also looking into resell rights. Harvey Segal has said that if he had to start from scratch he would definitely start with resell rights and Clickbank is  the place to find a lot of ebooks and sofware with resell rights. OK, that’s a brief summary of CB and it’s benefits it’s now time to go over the “New Opportunity.”

The CB Mall

Now you know a little about Clickbank and how beneficial it can be I would like to tell you about a new opportunity that CB has come up with to help you make even more money online. I’m not sure how long it has been around but I am sure it hasn’t been long. It’s called the CB Mall and basically it’s a website with all the digital products being sold on CB. There are 40,000 digital products here and you can promote them with one link. The good thing about the CB Mall is, ( just like CB itself) is free to join. You can have your own CB mall for free. They do offer upgrades which helps you with getting traffic to your CB Mall among other great tools and tips. Just with the free membership you get:

• Affiliate center where you can create links with the “Link Builder.” This is great for the simple fact that you won’t be displaying  a long, ugly affiliate link when you promote the mall.  Not only can you create a link to the mall front but you can also create links to specific sections of the mall depending on the niche your promoting. Here is my link to the  sign up page. http://www.cbmall.com/to/club
• I have counted a total of 9 ebooks so far but there may be some that I have missed. One of these ebooks is even a rebrander that you can resell. It also comes with a rebranding tool and video of how to rebrand a book. Amazing!
• There is a support center where all your questions can be answered. If you can’t get them answered they have a reliable contact e-mail address.
• A section on CB Mall security and how to test the system.
• Features a video with targeted ideas on using CBmall with your existing web site business.
• Ideas for people without websites. There are many different ways to drive traffic to your mall.
• Banners and artwork
• Different ideas on niche marketing. No matter what your area of expertise you can make money online with this mall.
• How to buy something at your mall and collect the commissions.
• Product codes so you can track what you have sold if it’s a CB Mall product.

That’s just scratching the surface. There are so many more things that come with this opportunity it’s hard to remember all of them. Clickbank definitely knows what their doing and I’m sure this free offer isn’t going to last forever. So if you have been looking for an online self employment opportunity look no further. Your not going to break your bank account and you’ll have plenty of tools, ebooks and other amazing things to show you exactly what to do. I have been doing this for a little while now and know that some of these products that you will get for free other people are purchasing with a high price tag. All you need to do is look and see for yourself. Clickbank is just going to grow even bigger from this so don’t be surprised if two or three months from now you start hearing a lot more about this opportunity and there isn’t  free memberships available.  

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There are many good reasons to use forums

What’s not to like about forums? That’s my question. Forums are probably one of the best weapons in your marketing arsenal besides submitting articles. Forums are fun and interactive, kind of like a chat room on delay, but with purpose. There are so many ways that forums can help your business and your learning experience at the same time. For starters, say you have been banging your head against the wall trying to find the answer to a question you have that isn’t that easy to find in the search engines. Usually because it’s a question that requires a specific answer tailored to you. Sometimes you can search all day and almost, just almost get the question answered, but not quite. That’s where the forum comes in, you can ask questions all day, (with the link to your website  in the signature box provided for all who post) consistently exposing your link to the masses. Now, you do want to make sure that your being legitimate and asking questions that’s either going to help you or someone else. Another words providing value in some shape or form. Another valuable piece of advice that was once given to me is “The only stupid question is the one you didn’t ask.” You can have a lot of very technical questions answered in the forums by a willing participant wanting his URL to be seen. You will also find many tips, tools and ideas just by looking around the different topics and seeing what everyone is discussing. For instance I was in a forum just the other day with a question about something and I was looking around at some other posts while waiting for an answer to my question and just happened to see someones post that had a video tutorial specifically geared toward the issue I wanted resolved.  I’m not done yet, that’s just the beginning. 

Site promotion

I hinted at site promotion in the first paragraph while asking questions. Which is good people see your URL and may click on it because of the informative question you may have had, but what really is going to entice a person to visit your site is answering questions. When you can answer a question with solid information (that is well written and spelled correctly) you have now become the authority on the issue and have made it that more likely to get a visit from the now happy participant whos burning question you just answered. Don’t completely answer the question, you can withhold some information and say for more details please visit the link below or something to that effect.  The good thing is this is a strategy, but at the same time it’s  legitimately providing someone with value. Providing the answers they want. I know almost every marketer that has given me value ( I say almost because I can’t afford to buy everything) has earned my business/my hard earned dollar. They have EARNED it, and I haven’t been disappointed at all.

Where are the questions they’re asking?

First you want to look for the forums with long threads. Then just look and see if you can find a repetitive question that comes up. This is also a good way to find a topic for your next article or blog post (There is also a handy tool called the forum tracker that you can use, you can find this tool in a free ebook called “Forum Marketing Super Tips”, along with some other helpful information, it’s actually where I started learning about forums) for instance if someone where to ask “I am a Clickbank affiliate and haven’t been making what I think I should, could there be a reason?” Now you can turn that into different subjects like:

“Six ways to lose Clickbank Commissions” or

“How to Boost Your Clickbank Commissions”
and so on. You can do this with any question imaginable.

These examples that I just gave you can be used for article topics, a new forum topic, an idea for a product to sell. You could have a product sitting there with resell rights just waiting to be sold and see the question being asked and immediately start setting up a landing page. The possibilities are almost endless.

Finding a Forum

When looking for a forum you want to make sure that it’s getting a good amount of traffic. If not, you may want to make a couple of posts just in case it’s getting picked up by the search engines, but I wouldn’t stay for pie. So find a forum where posts are being made frequently and not once a week. Most forums (or probably all of them by now) have statistics, were you can see the last post, how many replies and how many views that it’s had. Of course you want to find the forum that’s in your niche or based around you topic of expertise or your eventual topic of expertise. You have a couple of different kind of forum formats. I would just say go with what suits you best as long as it has a steady flow of people. Normally your going to have to register in order to post to a forum. You should look for one where you can set up a profile and personalize it somewhat. Also go over the forum rules before you dive in and start swimming around. Check to see what the policy is for posting your URL’s. Some forums may be a little different than others, so if  it’s your first time posting to a forum make sure to check things out first. Test the water so to speak. Actually some forums have a test thread where you can get the feel for the forum. Utilize the features in the forum. Some will have a box you can check to subscribe to a thread and have new posts sent to you via your e-mail account. You can also view the most recent posts at most forums. These are two valuable tools in doing your research. Instead of hanging around and waiting for results when you subscribe to a thread you can move on to something else for the time being. When viewing the most recent posts you can see what is on peoples minds in “The now.” Harvey Segal points out in one of his books that you want to make your post stand out as well. If you see replies all with the same title in sequence, change yours up a little. Word it a little bit different so that it catches the eye.  When it comes to the signature box you want it nice,neat and professional. Just put your full name  (for exposure), two lines of text and your URL. You’ll be able to change this up a little to suit you, just keep it professional is really all you need to keep in mind and it will pay off without a doubt. So, that’s a very basic outline of how to start marketing with forums. As you do it you’ll start picking up on more and more on your own. Just like starting a new job were the person training you shows you basically how it’s done and eventually you improve on it to suit your taste. If you would like more detailed look into forums just click on the link I put in this post earlier were it says “Forum Marketing Tips.” It’s a free ebook and has a few more advanced ideas you may want for future reference.