Business Forums And Online Marketing
As an individual with an interest in online marketing you are looking for a comprehensive plan to assist in your long-term objectives. I have taken an anonymous quote and reconfigured it below to help you gain a better perspective on using marketing to your advantage,
Imagine there is a circus coming to town and you are seeking to find ways to promote the event and encourage people to take advantage of it.
ADVERTISING: You paint a sign that indicates the time and location of the circus.
PROMOTION: You place the sign you made on a circus elephant and walk the pacaderm through town.
PUBLICITY: This is what happens should the elephant walk through the Mayor’s flowerbeds.
PUBLIC RELATIONS: When the Mayor laughs about the mishap.
SALES: The town’s citizens go the circus, you show them the many entertainment booths, explain how much fun they’ll have spending money at the booths, answer their questions and ultimately, they spend a lot at the circus.
When the above principle is applied to the use of a business forum it might look like this.
ADVERTISE: You send targeted emails and use press releases to announce the launch and location of your forum.
PROMOTION: You find a supplier or business associates willing to provide details about your forum to like-minded customers.
PUBLICITY: This could be a post either negative or positive that ultimately is used to draw guests to your forum.
PUBLIC RELATIONS: When competitors recognize your forum as beneficial and try to downplay your success.
SALES: Citizens of the World Wide Web come to your forum, discover the educational and community aspects of the forum, read about products you have for sale, have their questions answered, and ultimately purchase one of your products or services.
People don’t want to be “marketed TO”; they want to be “communicated WITH.” – Flint McGlaughlin
The use of a forum board allows a natural progression for your customers. You can track customer trends and reasoning and they are allowed the freedom to communicate in a way that traditional marketing campaigns have never before been able to provide.
A forum may likely take on a life of it’s own and require little personal involvement from the business owner. While this may be good news it is in your best interest to check up on the forum from time to time if only to get a feel for the tastes and trends of your customers. After all, when you get right down to it, that’s the information you need anyway.
Scott Lindsay
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Which serious online forum could I join to learn more about Internet marketing and making business online?
Thank you!
By far the best forum I have found is the Warrior Forum ( warriorforum.com/forum ) . The people are generally friendly, and there’s a wide range of experience – from "newbies" to experienced marketers.
You can find my name on my blog below, and I use my real name on the forum, so I hope to see you over there!
References :
http://uppermoney.com
Hi,
I don’t know about forums, but I quite like visiting doshdosh.
http://www.doshdosh.com
Another well known one is shoemoney.
Kind regards,
Joséhttp://theartinquirer.blogspot.com
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eBay has several forums, and if you happen to be in the Chicago area they have an eBay Live coming up in a little over a week! Here’s a link to the list of online forums they’ve had recently (transcripts included), but watch here for upcoming forums as well: http://forums.ebay.com/db2/forum.jspa?forumID=93
I hope that helps, best of luck!
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I attended eBay Live two years ago in downtown Dallas, it was a HUGE eye-opening, learning experience for me on the whole internet marketing aspect of business. They had tons of classes you could choose from, I mostly hung out in the search engine optimization and internet marketing classes – - that knowledge can be used anywhere, but they did have lots of eBay-specific info as well.
I have been in this game a long time and have developed a marketing and training website to teach people how to market on the internet.
You can find out more info about my site here.
http://www.wemaketopearners.com
I provide hands on one on one training if you so desire. I have created myself a very nice income on the internet.
You can also visit my blog here
http://www.robertfranta.com
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