Very often, entrepreneurs who first started out online end up losing money and wasting time trying to get traffic to their websites and I have to admit,
I was once there….
It’s a fact that …
I was once a newbie…
I once lost over 5 grand on advertisingI
was once a victim of a Nigerian scam that nearly wiped out half my entire savings…
(Yes, my journey isn’t all a bed of roses…)
Well, I’m not sure if it’s something to be proud of but I can look at it from two perspectives…
One, I got smarter! In fact I would attribute it to my current online success from the lessons that I’ve learnt from these mistakes…
OR
Two, I can whine about it, live in regret and spend the rest of my life telling my sob story to everyone that crosses my path…
(I’m not sure about you but I sure do come across many such people boozing in those rundown cafes.)
You see this is the side of my story I’m not particularly proud of but I realized the success that most of you see from gurus really did not come easy.
Many have walked the path I did, committed many blunders…some were even sued by FTC.
But that’s not the point here….
What I’m trying to get at, is these mistakes have taught most of us (entrepreneurs) to be smarter…to start thinking out of the box when making business decisions.
And today I’m going to show you how thinking out of the box can help you get traffic lazily & gain exposure to your website with just one or few forum posts. Yes, you heard it right.
(if it doesn’t intrigue you, why would it be thinking out of the box otherwise? :=)
Before I tell you about the forum method, I want to set the record straight.
I know some of you would like it to be like “Craig, can you show us step by step how to do it…to the very exact words to say and do.”
I’m sorry I’ll have to disappoint you if you ask to be spoon-fed.
But if you feel what I’m about to share make good sense, you’ll be able to do it instinctively. That is the spirit about doing online business.
You need to understand that when it comes to marketing, you are dealing with a real human being and not some robot you can feed some sentences and it’ll hand you what you desire.
OK,
Why Forum Marketing?
The context in which your customers get to see your offer is very important.
Eg. If your potential customer is searching on Google, his guard is higher. But if he knows he searching in a forum, he is less guarded because forums creates a sense of community where everyone’s opinions are open for others to criticise.
Visitors in forums are usually there to look for new information as people constantly want to be in the know…
They are also there to seek for opinions
(The trust there is enough that they would be open to other people’s suggestions)
Everyone someone wants to have a say and give their own opinions whether they are competent or not.
So how do you get traffic to your web site from forums with just one or a few posts…
You get them to give you their opinion.
Let’s say you’re in a Yoga niche.
You could pose a question like:
“I know some of you may not like Kundalini Yoga but I also know that it helps to awaken your body’s energy…
which camp do you belong to?
Do you prefer Kundalini Yoga or others?”
You will certainly get a heated debate here automatically and you can recommend the exact Kundalini Yoga DVDs in your forum signature.
You can also post again to comment after other people’s replies for added boost.
With so much content on your post or topic, it’s like creating a long article of content,
not created by you but by the forum users.
What this does is that it creates new content that Google will easily indexed
(generally forum pages are highly indexed by Google),
therefore bringing trafic not only from forum users but also from the search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN…and for a long while.
When visitor traffic arrives, your signature will be exposed to them, so make sure you use a good headline for your signature.
A few proven signature lines are:
(if you’re in a weight loss niche and your post is about a pill called X)
Benefit Oriented:Melt off 200% more fat when doing this exercise with X…
Special OfferEg. Special Offer For X For Members of Yoga Forum
Your Case Study
(people love to read about people..that’s why blogs are so popular)Read My Journey With Pill X and how I got rid of 30 pounds of FAT in 17 days.
And these are just the tip of the iceberg for ways to generate traffic.
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I’d love to hear from you, so please share your thoughts in the comments section below, will you?
Talk to you soon,
Craig Johnson
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