How To Find Your Target Audience Using Online Forums?

By Kay Franklin  |   Submitted On April 28, 2014

  

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When we have something to offer specific people - our target market, we need to find out where we can find them online. In this article I will help you to find your ideal marketing using forums.

There is a forum online for just about every topic these days. People are becoming more and more interested in connecting with like minded people and this is good news for online marketers.

It means that there are specific places online that you can visit and find a large proportion of your target audience all in the one place!

Forums are great for marketing purposes, making contacts and coming up with product ideas too.

This is how you would go about finding your particular ideal prospects using forums.

1. Google Search

Do a Google search for your particular topic of interest. Use common keywords that describe your niche and then add the word forum at the end.

e.g. keyword forum

2. Best Forums

You will probably find quite a few forums but not all of them will be suitable for you. Some might be old and no longer active. Others might be paid only forums and others might not allow you to advertise in any way.

Open up at least 20 forums in your browser and look at the results.

For each forum scroll down to the bottom of the page and see if there are any active members and how many.

If there are none or very few then don't bother with that forum - you won't get enough exposure.

3. Signatures

Now that you have only active forums the next thing to check is whether or not you can add a signature to your profile.

A signature if a sentence or 2 that you have at the bottom of any post you add to the forum. Look to see if people are using signatures and if there is a clickable link in the signature. If so then you should be able to do the same if you join the forum.

You might find that you have to post a certain number of times before your signature becomes visible.

Use your signature to send people to your site.

4. Get Involved

Now get involved on those forums that you have chosen. Remember that forums are places that people go to for help so don't use it to promote your business - that is what your signature is for.

The more you get involved the more people will see your signature and visit your site.

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How I Got Affiliates to Promote My Product

By Sean Mize  |   Submitted On March 02, 2016

  

I could not build momentum. I was doing what I teach folks to do: get five sales on your first product, then you do another one next week and sell ten. You do another the next week and you sell fifteen, and that's a lot like how I started. In fact, that's how I started. But it wasn't working to try and break into this market.

Affiliates weren't promoting for me, and I had somebody tell me that affiliates don't promote until you have fifty or a hundred sales. So what am I going to do to get over this?

I needed a strategy to recruit affiliates in a big marketplace like the Warrior Forum, ClickBank, JVZoo, etc. I was using the Warrior Forum...

The light bulb went off. What about solo ads? Instead of sending my solo ads to an opt-in form, or instead of sending them to some "Thank-You" page, I can immediately get the subscriber if I send them to the WSO (Warrior Special Offer) page, and then I would just send them to whatever my current WSO was, and get fifteen, or twenty, or thirty sales, I found that was paying for my solo ads prices, not completely, but it was helping pay for it. Then with my back end it was paying for it.

This allows me to monetize my solo ad leads, and so I was just buying solo ads left and right, sending them to a WSO (it didn't even have to be my current one - it might be the top performing one). Send it to a WSO, get as many buyers as possible, put them into my twenty-one day conversion campaign, where people were spending like $18 - $20 within twenty days in the conversion campaign, by enrolling in coaching, prepaying some things, just various things that were in the integrated conversion campaign that I put together. It was really a phenomenal thing.

Now you're thinking "Why are you telling me all of this?" I want you to see the WHY behind it. Because, one of the things that happens in your business, you may find, is that you hit obstacles, and you just don't know what to do.

I hit an obstacle and solo ads weren't performing as well, so I decided I'd stop those. Then I saw the opportunity on the Warrior Forum and I put them together like I described above. Then I ran into another obstacle!

Solo ad providers stopped being willing to sell me ads that just went to the WSO forum because they weren't getting as many clicks. Then, if they don't get as many clicks, they don't make as much money. So, the bottom line was I had a harder and harder time finding ways to do that, but! but! by now, I had hundreds of WSO buyers, that I had gotten through these solo ads, now if I launched a WSO, I could send it out, send it only the buyers that had bought from me before, that way I would keep my conversion rate really high. And then people would buy, and I'd get my fifty, or a hundred sales, and then affiliates started noticing, and started promoting for me.

And, what would happen was most of the time you would get like ten affiliates, they'd each do like five sales, and honestly, it's pretty discouraging. Pretty discouraging, I remember how discouraging it was.

How am I ever going to scale? People are either sending out a test e-mail, or all these people had really small e-mail lists, and, I think there's a mix of both. But, then, the big break happened.

Some of those affiliates, when they bought my product, they would study it themselves, and then they realized that I had really good training, and then when they promoted it to their list, they would tell the people that it was really good training, they would want to promote for me, they would start promoting for me on the first day instead of waiting until there were fifty or a hundred sales. Why? Not because of anything special at the Warrior Forum, not because of any hot copy, I don't write hot copy, I write copy that gets the job done.

But people were choosing to promote for me because they liked me!

Because I offered phenomenal training. And I think that that's something that motivated me, and said this is something that is very, very, very interesting. And then what happened was you know a few affiliates that really could pull a hundred or two-hundred sales, they started promoting for me. And then they would even send me e-mails that would say, "hey, when you're going to launch something, let me know I'd like to promote for you." Sight unseen, why? Because of the quality of the product, and so what do I leave you with when I say this. Your product's got to be great. It's got to have high quality.

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Did You Know Forums Can Bring You 50% of Your Visitors?

By Anne O'Dwyer  |   Submitted On March 04, 2015

  

Surprisingly forum marketing can bring in up to 50% of your visitors. Set it up correctly and work it regularly for great results. Also the viewers are very relevant visitors as they have chosen that particular forum because of the match to their interest. So if you also make a close match there is every chance the visitors will be looking for what you have to offer. So this is an excellent way to build your list of future purchasers. Can it get better than that for a little bit of work?

So what is the correct way to set up your forum marketing? First type into Google your niche then type the word forum and see what turns up, you may have to re-word your chosen niche keyword slightly to get the best choices but you should end up with a number of forums to select from. Ten forums would be a good number if you have time to add several posts daily to each forum you like the look of.

Sign up and join each forum you feel is a good match. This is usually free. Be sure to read the terms and conditions carefully as they are all different and you don't want to be banned for a silly error. You will find how soon you can add posts and new threads, and also a signature (with a link back to your website). Your aim is to answer questions and ask your own regularly. Your posts should be informative helpful and interesting. Find the answer to questions by Googling and research. You will learn a lot and become known as an expert in your niche, which will increase traffic to your website. Others will answer your questions and help you too. Forums are like an online community.

Each entry gives you an opportunity to introduce your website squeeze page where you can offer a useful gift in return for their email address. Give an E-book on something connected to your niche. These email addresses will become your "list" of prospects that you are able to email various affiliate offers and tips to regularly.

If you imagine making 10x3 posts daily, therefore 30x30 = 900 by the end of the month, this could be over 10,000 at the end of a year, you can see how your contacts grow. Especially as people continue to read the threads long after they were posted. Posts will grow over the following weeks as other peoples comments are added. Also have you noticed some posts become really popular and read by hundreds of people. Look at a big forum like the Warrior Forum.

In order to make this forum marketing work post regularly and see the difference. People will look out for your comments and your reputation will grow.

To speed up your progress you may want to combine this with other methods for example paid advertising, whilst organic advertising continues to grow naturally.

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One Simple Technique to Adopt If You Are Struggling for Product Ideas

By Nick James  |   Submitted On March 11, 2016

  

I don't usually watch daytime TV. In fact I hardly watch live TV at all these days. However, one day I did find myself flicking through the TV channels for something to watch as I replied to various support tickets and forum questions that had been posted overnight.

Just as I clicked open for one particular support ticket from a website member, the program Cash In The Atticbegan.

Why am I telling you this? Well, as I read through the support ticket, which essentially was asking: "Where to find inspiration and profitable product ideas?", I thought about the story that was unravelling before me on TV. Essentially we investigate the forgotten treasures that have been in store and forgotten for years in someone's attic and end up turning the items into cash by sending the various items to auction.

That got me thinking. Could the very same formula I was seeing on TV be used to help my customer overcome their problem of coming up with their first product idea about what to sell online for profit?

It might be that you are already sitting on a goldmine of information, ideas, old articles and experience that is slowly gathering dust. Don't think of these as boxes of old papers, think of them as your pension! Your greatest asset is the knowledge, experience, education and intellectual property that you have accumulated over time.

However it can only realise its true potential and you can only 'cash in' if you repurpose it and turn it into a product you can sell online.

What have you got hidden away in your virtual 'attic' that you can quickly identify and turn into cash?

Think about the following points to help jog your memory: 

• Hobbies past and present
• Jobs you have done past and present
• Holidays, vacations and travel destinations
• Interests you've had past and present
• Stories you have been told
• Your Family history and genealogy
• Life changing experiences
• Your health trials and tribulations

If your 'material' is in your head then you need to get it out of your head as quickly as possible. One such method of doing this is to speak your thoughts into a microphone and record everything. Later this can be easily transcribed. Or perhaps if you already have some of your original articles and reports from the 'good old days' on paper already, then you need to get these typed or use some OCR (optical character recognition) software to digitise your old masterpieces and unlock the gold that they contain within.

Using the Cash In The Attic technique is just one way you can overcome inertia and procrastination that prevents you from choosing and selecting a product idea to begin your Internet publishing career. Whilst it cannot be guaranteed your first product will necessarily reach or exceed your financial income target... It will give you a real and hands on experience of developing your first product and help you reach your epiphany moment more quickly.

So, how many forgotten yet profitable ideas do you have locked away in your attic?

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