There are many different ways to market your products and services online.  There are free ways to market, and there are paid ways to market your products.

Today I want to talk about one of my personal favorite free ways to market.  That is making money with forum marketing.

Imagine making money, friends and connections all at the same time.  That is what forum marketing allows you to do.  You can find a forum in your market in which you can surround yourself with the like-minded people.  That is huge!

People will be more likely to buy from a friend than from a stranger.  So, if you go into the forum with the attitude of making friends and providing value, the sales will no doubt follow.

My favorite marketing forum is the Warrior Forum.  This forum is an amazing place to grow your online business.  The Great Thing about the Warrior Forum is some of the top names in Internet marketing frequent this forum.

Not only that, but most of the big names started out learning on that very forum.  The warrior forum is truly a great place to learn and grow your business with forum marketing.

Anyway, here are my top three tips to making money with form marketing…

1.  Provide value

Sometimes new people assume that it is okay to go out and blatantly advertise their products or services on a forum.  This is unacceptable forum etiquette.  You must give before you can get from the forum.

You do not necessarily need to provide tons of content from your knowledge.  If you are new this would be practically impossible for you, but you can provide value by asking good questions.

2.  Develop relationships

Most people talk about finding JV partners and affiliates to help promote your products, but it is very hard to get people to promote your products if they do not know you.

Forum marketing is a great way to build valuable friendships and business relationships that can subsequently help build your business.

3.  Stay out of of the drama

Sometimes you’ll see a ton of fighting and drama on any forum.  It would be best if you would completely stay out of these types of engagements.  They can only lead to negative things for you.  Remember, the Internet is a history of everything you do.  People can easily find anything you say on public forum.

If you’d like to learn more ins and outs of forum marketing, Brian McElroy has just put together an all-star cast of forum marketers.

Brian is going to be doing a series of online interviews that while on earth the secrets to making massive amounts of money using forum marketing.

This interview series is going to be absolutely free.  All it will cost you is a name and e-mail address.  You really need to check it out here…

http://Focused2Win.com/goto/forum

Shannon Herod

P. S. Brian has really put together a who’s who of forum marketers in this course.  You can learn from the best and it is free, so go check it out.

http://Focused2Win.com/goto/forum