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Last time, we talked about JV giveaways, credit based safe lists and list builders to get me 100 sign ups in a week, this time I want to show you another strategy that I used which was quite effective – forum marketing.

Remember, I was giving away a free report that show how a single man made $2000 per week online? If you have missed my previous posts, you can always scroll to the end of this page and noticed the “related post”, the system should be able to pick up the last few posts of the series.

This time, I located few online forums that the members have great interests on “make money online” and there were:

1. Digital Point Forums
2. DN Forum
3. Warrior Forum

Notice that DNForum is a premium forum where you have to pay a small amount of entrance fee and become an active member for life. For digital point, I think you have to make 50 post before you can use the advertising section. This all about contribution and helps prevent spamming. For warrior forums, there is no limitation I think, but I will strongly recommend you make at least 10-20 posts before you start advertise your offers will be a good rule of thumb. For this project, I will use Digital Point forum as an example. Here is a screen shot on what I posted:

This is the sample of the ad and I put this on “Freebies section” of the forum (see red circle in the picture below)

This ad, I had about 40+ responses in 2 weeks. So the secret basically is write a compelling subject by starting off something like: “Free Report – How To Get 1000 Backlinks Free In a Month”, “Free IPhone Wordpress themes” and so on will do the trick. In my case it was “Secret Report – $2517.82 Online Per Week Free!” Once you get the members to click on your post, use a bold, red color heading to catch your reader attention, “Discover How An 7-11 Workers Makes $2517.82 Per Week Online With His Websites and You Can Do it Too!” and follow by a brief explanation on what the report is about plus a short call to action statement that tell the readers on how to get the free report. This is important, you get the reader attention, you have to tell them what they have to do in order to get this report, right? Notice I used “PM Me NOW” with bold and underline text
with repeating twice and make sure the readers know what to do. This alone didn’t give me 40 sign ups, something needed to do extra is called “thread bumping” (note: this technique is NOT allowed in Digital Point Forum and if found, you will be banned for 1 week, I have been banned several times using this technique, so be ware!)

When posting on forums, one thing you need to know is the latest post always shows at the beginning of every page. For example:

and

when you compare both, you will see the post, “Find Out How Much Your Site is Worth” drop to the second place after a new post was posted on that section of the forum. One way to solve this problem is actually add an extra clause to our “call to action” “statement”:

As you can see in the above picture (black circle part) DNforum, I added “All You Have to Do Now is to Comment Here and PM me”. That way before the reader requested to get the report, the comment there and my post get bumped back to the first position. It’s ok as long as your post stay in first few pages of the section in the forum but if it gets too deep, just like when you try to find something in Google, you most likely don’t go beyond the third page of the results, i,e,
never to be found! So by adding this extra bit, your post will be read more often then if you are NOT doing it.

Later on, I showed you step by step tactics plan on how I did it, so stay tunned!