You can find forums all over the Web with a focus on almost any niche subject you can think up. By far, the Internet Marketing, “Make Money At Home” subject is the most popular forum focus today and probably for more than several thousand tomorrows, too.

It is easy to find forums with targeted traffic for any niche that exists. Just use any search engine, enter your niche keywords, and stand back. Find one or two forums that interest you and join. Quite a few forums are free to join. Some of them on the highly popular Internet Marketing subjects are fee-based, but do not discount the free ones for your traffic-generating marketing.

In fact I’ve had better results from free forums. Members of free forums have the same questions, problems and needs that feebased forum members have. They also have credit cards and will buy products that seem useful to them or products that provide resources they need. The first task you have as a brand new forum member is to introduce yourself to the other members. Most forums have a “New Member” category that is used for introductions and soft self-promotion…who you are…where you live…what you do…or what’s your interest or experience with the niche you just joined.

Create a short, friendly bio covering the pertinent details and post it in the appropriate category on each forum you join. Create a signature (Sig) that appears at the end of every forum post you make and on any email or private message you may send. All it needs is your screen name or real name and a statement or two, with your link, that will get clicks from any interested forum member. Here are a couple of examples:

“Tom Jones
Need a song? Contact Songwriter (http://www.songs4u.com) for music written just for you!”

“Lady Bug
Got ants in your pants? Visit Garden Solutions (http://www.gardensolutions.com)

for “Going Green” solutions to a nasty garden problem.”

(The links in the two examples are not valid, but used to illustrate the point being made) Whatever you decide your niche is, add your linked signature to every single posting or email you send, even emails to your mother. A carefully constructed signature is totally viral and will zip around the Web without you having to think about it again.

The above article is an excerpt from Free Traffic For Broke Marketers

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