Traffic Tips: Forum Marketing Basics Lesson 02
It’s no secret that when you use an online forum to promote your business it can lead to more traffic to your website and potential sales of your product or service. This however will depend on the type of website that you’re trying to promote.
This type of marketing needs to be done in a very subtle manner and without breaking any of the forum rules. It’s important to keep in mind that most forum owners keep a watchful eye out for spammers and if you’re found spamming you may be banned from the forum with no notice.
Forum Marketing Basics Lesson 01
Forum marketing is a great method that many online business owners use to market their own products and services online. In fact it is fast becoming one of the most widely used free marketing methods on the internet.
It has many benefits and it costs virtually nothing for you to implement. It just takes a little know how and determination from you on a regular basis to begin seeing positive results.
Build a Strong Relationship With Your List – 3 Top Tips
It is all very well having a mailing list but what you really need is a targeted, strong list of people who are ready and waiting to buy from you. In order to get to this stage you have to build a strong relationship with your list, but it’s not always that easy. The points below are not especially groundbreaking but they ARE the keys to a good strong and healthy list.
The main thing is to look after your subscribers interests at all times. You want to appear more as a friend and trusted advisor to them than you do as a sales person.
Dealing With Angry Emails
It doesn’t matter how good your products are or how wonderful your service is, it is impossible to keep every single person that buys from you happy. It might even feel unfair – we’ve all come across people that appear to be completely unreasonable and complain about the slightest little thing. Their claims might even be completely false. I once had an email where someone accused me of being a scammer and I felt angry and upset that someone should say this without good reason. On the other hand it might be a legitimate complaint and you might have made a genuine mistake but simply not realised it.
Using Upsells to Monetize Your List Building
When people opt-in to your list, they are hot about you. They’ve got excited about the offer on your squeeze page, they have trusted you with their name and email address, and in doing so they have effectively given you a little piece of themselves. That’s why this point is such a great time to sell to them. By using upsells to monetize your list building you’ll be creating what is probably the single most important asset in your online business (your list) whilst simultaneously making money.
There are two main schools of thought in terms of how to go about it. Your funnel can work as follows:


















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