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4 Tips To Get The Best Out Of Forum Marketing
Forums have been part of the internet community for a very long time and as such, it is an easy way for someone to communicate with other people all over the world about shared interests and to answer questions, as well as find answers. Online forum marketing is one of the best ways for a small business to promote their product or service as well as socializing with possible buyers of your product.
In today’s fast paced internet world you can find forums on just about any subject that may be of interest to you. All you have to do is go to your favorite search engine and type in your favorite topic and add forums and you will be greeted with millions of results. The possibilities are almost endless on the forums that you have the ability to choose from. Once you get the results all you have to do is search through the links and find the forum that you feel may contribute to you or one that may be able to contribute to the forum. If you are trying to promote your business however, you need to click on most of the forums and register.
Once you have registered in a few of the more popular forums you will need to edit your profile. The profile is very important as it will be the one thing that will promote your product online. You may consider on creating a short bio that tells visitors about you and the business you are promoting. Make sure that you include your keywords to both the text and hyperlink to your blog. This will help you show up on the search engines.
Now that you have finished your profile you are now ready to create a signature file. The signature file can help you increase traffic to your website as well as increasing the backlink. This file will appear each time you post in a forum.
Now that you have both of the most important steps done, you are now ready to use the forum to market your business or product. There are a few tips that you should follow though in order for the forums to work for you.
- Use the online forums to be able to learn as much as you can about your business. Almost all the forums that are available are free to use so this is a great way to do research. Also some forums allow you to read the posts without even joining which is great as it allows you access to valuable information without having to join. You need to be sure to take the time in reading these forums and asking any questions that you may have. Learning is one of the most important steps to any internet business as things are constantly changing.
- Be sure to use the forums to ask questions. Almost everyone in the forum community is willing to help others and answer questions as they can. If you never ask your question, you will never get the answers that you seek. The key though is to be sure that you ask the right questions as you do not want to spam the forum boards. Spamming the forum boards to get people to click on your signature link will only get your post deleted and possibly get you banned from the forum as well.
- Once you feel you are ready you can begin to answer questions for other members of the forum as well as help them with their problems just as they did for you. This will help you to get your backlink to grow as your trust grows. This will also help you become known as an expert on subject.
- Try not to post any links in your initial post this is what you will use your signature file for.
As you can see, forum marketing is a great way to socialize and meet new potential customers of your product. If they are used correctly, you can have a very successful internet business and you will be safe in the knowledge that you are genuinely helping the people you are selling your services to.
Do You Fear Success?
Did you realize that it is pretty common for people to be afraid of success? Now I know that may sound rather ridiculous, maybe even impossible; but the simple fact is that many of us will struggle to achieve the things we truly desire and this is all down to fears – specifically our subconscious fears. On a conscious level, you can plan, work and strive to succeed in the areas which are important to you but you seem to be getting nowhere fast and all your hard work and success appears to be thwarted.
So why does this happen? Well, in many cases, it is probably due to past experiences in your life which for some reason have subconsciously made you afraid of success and so you will subconsciously self-sabotage your results.
Maybe you kept hearing the phrase “people like you never get ahead” and that phrase is subconsciously buried deep in your mind. And even if you grew up in a loving, nurturing and positive environment, if your parents and/or your family struggled financially, your brain could’ve actually been programmed to believe that financial success will create a loveless and unhappy life for you. Hey, nobody said that your subconscious mind had to make sense!
It can be very difficult to overcome years of negative subconscious success beliefs, especially if you don’t actually realize they exist in the first place! But that is exactly what you need to do if you want to achieve any level of success in your life. The great news is that once you actually, totally believe you deserve success in any particular aspect of your life, your achievement of that success usually comes rather quickly and this reinforces self-belief.
Thomas Edison is one of the greatest (and most famous) inventors in history. He once said that, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” And this is exactly why he succeeded! Consistently tell yourself that you really deserve success. And realize that you will experience failure. You will have speed bumps and problems which arise between you and whatever level of success you desire, and that’s ok. Just be ready for it, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, and start again.
If you don’t believe me just take a look and follow the lessons of other successful people and try to determine what many of them have in common; an indomitable will to succeed. A great way to start is to start practicing daily affirmations of success. Tell yourself you are worthy of success, and really feel this deep down. Tell yourself out loud that you are not afraid of failure, or the rewards that success brings. Indeed failure is a part of success.
Write these affirmations down on a small card and keep it with you always, perhaps in your wallet or purse where you can constantly review it throughout the day. It is possible to reprogram your brain with positive repetitious statements concerning your success beliefs, and daily affirmations help. Do this consistently for 30 straight days and you now have installed a positive habit.
It is very natural to fear the unknown. And in many cases, success is unknown to many of us. Just remember that with a relentless tenacity and a true self-belief that you deserve the successful achievement of your goals, you can and will learn to embrace success rather than fear it.
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How to Target Early Adopters with Your Next Big Idea
Not to sound bigoted, but let’s just face the facts: some customers are more valuable than others. There! I said it! More specifically, customers who can be classified as “early adopters,” especially in the realm of digital technology, are major players in the success or failure of a 21st century business and/or product. Early adopters are so important because they’re often also your influences; they run blogs, Youtube channels, and everything they say has triple or quadruple-digit retweets on twitter. Get on the good side of an early adopter, and they can bring with them hundreds or thousands of average users. In some writings on the adoption curve and life cycle of new products in our day and age, early adopters are touted as those who can guide a new business across the “chasm.” The chasm is the period of uncertainty where it is uncertain whether a product will make the jump from something a few
people try out to a technology that is adopted and integrated by the majority.
Today, we’re going to talk about how you can help your products and businesses be as attractive to early adopters as possible, and how you can best leverage that attention.
1) Find a genuine need.
Depending on where you’re at, this might be advice coming too late, but the first step to getting your product into
the hands of eager early adopters is to make sure you’re filling a genuine need. People have “cool” ideas all the time, but that doesn’t mean they’re ideas that will come to be known as “needed.” Sometimes, however, your big idea can simply be an improvement of another system (think: Facebook usurping Myspace), however the barrier to entry with these ideas is higher because your product has to be so good it entices people to drop something they’ve grown accustom to.
2) Have a proper incentive system.
Don’t just offer to give people free products, give something above and beyond that. For example, you might take a note from the gaming industry: Often times, these companies will offer their early adopters exclusive titles for their profiles or unique character looks called “skins” that won’t be available ever again after the initial testing or adopting period. Think about what rewards could be relevant to your audience in the same way. Maybe you’re launching a
mobile ecommerce platform and you offer “veteran seller” badges or other marks of credibility to those who sign up and start using your site within the first 3 months, etc.
3) Communication will make or break you.
The world we market in today is one of two-way communication. Social media. You know, that kind of thing. You should be regularly reaching out to and interacting with your potential early adopter audiences through the channels that they use most. Beyond recruitment, this also expands to post-adoption feedback and support. Early adopters will likely be using these channels to either get in touch with you directly or to broadcast their opinions about your product or service. Either way, you should be monitoring social and traditional channels all the time to respond in a
timely, appropriate way.
Once you have all of the above in place you can turn on the traffic tap! And the best place to start sending floods of traffic is using is good old-fashioned media buying.
Even More Benefits Of Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing should never be confused with referral marketing as is often the case because the two are very different.
The main motivation behind affiliate programs is financial gain as a way of driving sales while referral marketing uses personal relationships and trust to increase the amount of sales. By relying on loyal existing customers and business connections, a business can use referrals to increase revenue generation. In affiliate marketing, you only get paid commissions when you bring in customers and they actually make purchases.
This marketing program requires the affiliate or publisher to use an affiliate link anytime that they mention the advertiser or merchant on their website. When a potential customer visits the affiliate’s website and clicks on the link, he or she is taken to the merchant’s website. At the same time, a cookie gets dropped on the customer’s computer. The customer then makes a purchase from the merchant’s website. As he logs out, the merchant finds a cookie that belongs to a specific affiliate and thereafter makes a credit for the sale in accordance with the initial agreement.
For transparency purposes, the merchant avails reports showing breakdowns of the amount of traffic from the affiliate’s link and the sales made. This ensures that the publisher is paid his rightful dues without being taken advantage of by the merchant. The commission payments are usually made after certain durations, on most occasions on a monthly basis. At least that allows the merchant to receive a reasonable amount as opposed to the payments coming in small bits.
The most common compensation method is the one described above where the affiliate is only paid commissions for actual sales made. The cost per click method of compensation is not favored by many merchants because there is always the danger of the marketing program not resulting into reasonable sales numbers. An affiliate can also just sit around and earn money for actually doing nothing.
Affiliate marketing is sometimes referred to as performance marketing because of the compensation method.