4 Forum marketing strategies

            Forums are a great place to promote your online business. Here you have 4 simple strategies to use for forum marketing.

            1. Offer solutions.

            Google around and find people looking for answers. Reply to their threads by explaining how your business can help them. Finally let them know what the link to your website is or how can they find you. This is a simple way of targeting the right people. Use search engines to find the exact people who need you, your business, your services or your products and talk directly to them.

            2. Create controversy.

            Forums are after all places where people talk, places for discussions and for debating. There is no better way to capture people's attention on a forum then by inciting them. Find a way to create controversy around your business and people will surely start debating. After all you want all eyes on you. Some will dislike you but some will like you and those who do will buy from you. By wanting to be liked by everyone you will fail. Better be hated by some, as this way there will surely be some others who will appreciate you.

            3. Act as the person with a problem.

            Ask a question on a forum and require everyone's help. This way you will engage people and they will all answer to your thread letting you know what they think or what they recommend. Finally you pop in with the solution you chose – your own business. It's best if you also state that you are very pleased with your choice and that you thank everyone for their assistance. Let them know that they gave you really great advice and the choice you took was difficult to make but it was the best. This way all the people who helped you out will get to notice your business. And it's after all the solution to a problem. You can't ask for anything better.

            4. Be the active member.

            A great way of forum marketing is to be active without doing any sort of promotion in the beginning. Look for what people need and help them out. Bond and make friends. Be active so you can earn the community's trust. The more you post, the more active you are the more people will look up to you and respect your opinion. Once you've become a premium member of the community you can pop up the link to your business along with the thumbs up. This way people will first consider your opinions to be respectable and then they will accept whatever you show them.

            The secret to successful forum marketing is to combine and employ all these techniques to create something natural, yet powerful.