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Use Forums to
Promote Your ClickBank Affiliate Products
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 the author of
A COMPLETE
NEWBIES’ GUIDE TO MAKING MONEY WITH CLICKBANK which you can
learn more about at:
http://www.avrilharper.com/clickbank.html
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