Experienced affiliates, on ClickBank and elsewhere, know forum marketing can be one of the most powerful promotional techniques, especially in forums populated exclusively by potential readers of whatever you are promoting. It obviously helps if forum members have a shared and very urgent need or problem to solve, especially one with a highly appropriate ClickBank product. Here are more things you should know to help you begin promoting your affiliate products at forums:
Forums are generally populated by people asking questions, others providing answers, and people generally passing round information about their shared passion. So you'll find problems and special needs being discussed all the time in many thousands of forums covering countless different subjects, such as scrapbooking, making money on eBay, creative writing, rearing Mastiff dogs.
They can be a very effective place to promote your recommended ClickBank products. One of the best ways to do this is by joining an appropriate forum, and participating in conversations, especially by offering tips or answers to common problems.
Comments made by individuals at the site are called 'postings' and they can be extremely effective in getting traffic to your recommended product's sales page, especially if you end your posting with something to distinguish you as an expert in the subject matter concerned. You can do this by offering a free report about the subject with your name as author and which includes links to ClickBank products recommended inside the report.
To show how effective forum marketing can be, a short while ago, when eBay banned digital goods from the entire UK marketplace and all but the Classified Ads. section on the American site, I went into a popular eBay forum to see how other PowerSellers were approaching the unexpected news.
I found most were completely devastated, many were too shocked to even consider how they might continue trading their information products on eBay or elsewhere.
Digital download eBooks have never been a major part of my own eBay business, I sell information mainly on CD on eBay, and for that reason I wasn't panicking about the news.
Being quite calm, I posted a message in the forum, including several ideas for responding to the changes on eBay and mentioning the fact I had written a short report about marketing information products on eBay in the light of eBay's unexpected digital download ban.
I asked people to email me for the free report. Within 24 hours there were 400 plus emails in my box! The response was totally unexpected and I was completely unprepared, I had no way of collecting those names for future promotions. I should have asked people to join my mailing list for their free report, but I didn't, I just never expected more than two or three people would want my free report.
My forum posting took less than five minutes and proves how easily a mammoth mailing list and sales commissions can be grown through forums.
Avril Harper is a successful ClickBank vendor and affiliate and the author of A COMPLETE NEWBIES' GUIDE TO MAKING MONEY WITH CLICKBANK.
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