http://www.sitepronews.com By Willie Crawford Originally published in SiteProNews, October 11, 2007
If you visit the popular "Internet Marketing Warriors" discussion forum, you'll notice that I have nearly 7500 posts! If you were to visit any of several dozen other online forums and discussion boards, you'd also discover thousands of my posts.
The reason that I have so many posts to online forums and discussion boards is that I have found them a very effective marketing tool. I use online forums to:
1. Allow potential customers and joint venture partners to actually get a feel for who I am.
2. Share my knowledge on topics that I understand, while at the same time generating links back to my sites.
3. Get quick answers to questions I have and quick feedback on ideas that I have.
4. Conduct market research - investigating the problems, concerns, needs, wants, and quirks of my markets.
5. Getting a feel for potential clients and joint venture partners.
6. Getting feedback on products and services that I'm considering purchasing, marketing or developing.
As you can see, forums can be very useful for many purposes. Since I am in business online, I think of much of what I do on forums as "marketing." In that regards, there are certain rules that I follow and recommend that you do too.
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