How To Use Free Forums To Drive Qualified Prospects To Your Business
There is a very simple way to get quite a few highly targeted and qualified prospects to you so you may put your offers in front of them.
They are called forums. You need to know what you’re doing otherwise people won’t be receptive and may even accuse you of spamming their forum.
Here are the basics:
1. Find forums that are on topic to health or even joint pain. If you can find forums where people share a common problem or experience pain then you will get a lot more interest.
2. Start posting on the forums and answering questions leaving links to where they can find the information you’re quoting, etc… Don’t leave a link to anything you do yet; wait until you have a lot of people on the forum who trust you and respect your advice. Once you have a following you can put your blog in your signature line or even drop a link to it when you’re solving one of their problems but don’t drop a link every time you answer any question; just once every 5 to 10 answers and you should be good to go.
3. Make your own web property. That is to say: make a free blogger blog, wordpress blog, or squidoo lens. On your web property offer a free report that you have written on the same topic as the forum. It only needs to be 7 to 10 pages so they are relatively easy to do.
Be sure the report really helps give them information that will be useful. Be sure the report title is quite catchy and makes people want it. Make sure your report over-delivers on value so they are impressed not disappointed.
4. Set up an auto-responder by visiting GetResponse or AWeber if you prefer them. We use GetResponse and really like them; their interface is very simple.
Set up a multiple email campaign that your auto-responder will send out. 7 to 10 emails are enough, if they don’t hop on board by then they likely never will.
In your auto-responder emails offer them more free information keeping up your position of helping them.
And in every email give them a phone number and ask for theirs so that you can begin some real dialog with them (very important).
IF YOU DON’T WANT TO GIVE AWAY A REPORT then you can drive them towards your blog and encourage them to sign up to your blog for updates. You then keep posting on a regular basis and giving them a phone number to call and an email address to which they can send you their phone number.
You can write all kinds of NutriHarmony stories, etc. on your blog. People will read them, become inspired and want to get involved.
These are the basic steps to using free forums as a method to drive traffic to you and your offers. It works quite well over time and can be a valuable addition to your marketing campaigns.
Be sure that any advice and help you give is non-prescriptive and does not diagnose and you should be fine.