subject: How To Market A Product By Setting Up An Effective Signature File In Forums [print this page] Author: Morris Author: Morris
Forums are one of the most effective ways of generating free targeted traffic and marketing your product.. In this article I will guide you through effective signature file setup that will drive an arsenal of traffic to your offer for life. This is a step by step guide and there is no time to waste. A signature file in forums is a paragraph that says something about you or your offer. This paragraph appears below any post that you make in the forum. This only place you can sell yourself or your product in the forums, therefore the more effective it is the more the leads you generate. More leads means more sales and more cash. If you market an affiliate product, you can just copy the headline from the sales letter and include a link to the sale letter. For example, if I wanted to promote a product like Acme People Search Affiliate Program I would copy the headline of the sales letter, and then paste it as my signature file. I would include a call to action like discover how you can earn from 8 income streams rolled in one program. Or I would hyperlink the name of the product and then include the headline of the sales letter. If the product is yours, use the name of the product hyperlinked as I just explained, this is a good way to brand your product. For example Acme People Search Affiliate Program 8 income Streams rolled in one program If you are an affiliate of the said product, you can use a blind promotion and not mention the name of the product. Let curiosity get the best of people and then click on your link. Or, you can create a short, sweet and controversial description of the product you promote. For Example, The REAL Secret To Making Money Online! : The Easiest Way To Make Money From 'Scams' Told. Another thing you can do is set up a landing page and offer a positive review of the product you market as well as an added bonus for people who purchase through your affiliate link. This I tell you can work extremely well, especially if you have used the product yourself and have gotten great results. For example if you joined the Learn How To Earn Forum and you learnt skills that enabled you sign up 20-50 leads per day you could create a signature file that says something simple like: Come see how I got 30 signups yesterday without calling anyone. Then you would hyperlink that to your landing page that could say something like: I had tried everything and I couldnt generate leads for my Internet business, but then I discovered magnetic sponsoring at the Learn How To Earn Forum and I started to generate 30 60 leads every single day on complete autopilot in just 10 days. I obviously used a short version of what you could say here but I think you get the point. Something that can work very well is to make a special offer for members of each individual forum. For example if you post in a forum called MLM Tactics Board you can say something like: Special offer for members of MLM Tactics Board :( Thats it) point that to a landing page that restates the fact that this offer is for members of the MLM Tactics Board. Another thing you can do is have several links to several different products separated by a pipe Theres no law that prohibits you from linking to more than one resource. For example you can have a signature file that looks something like: MLM Lead Generation University | Market Research Secrets EBook | Super EBook | Affiliate Programs Rock! You can have each link point to different landing pages. You can use your desired anchor text in your signature file. So if you do keyword research and you see that some specific keywords get many searches (and you can provide a solution or a product to point peoples who search for them to) you can use these keywords to link to your landing page. The popular forums in your industry are considered huge authority sites and they have a lot of weight in the search engines. If you dont believe me, search for 10 random terms. Youll see that many times. Some of the top results are nothing more than forum threads. Having these sites link to your page is a great side effect of you using a well thought out signature file. Many links from different authority sites can make your landing pages rank high on the search engines. Note that you can modify your signature file at anytime. You can promote a different product, add another product, stop promoting a specific product etc If you want to track how effective your signature files are, you can use a tracking link instead of pointing directly to your landing page. Yes forum marketing is free but you will still put time into it. You need to know if it pays enough for your time.(and if you do exactly what I tell you should get paid more than fairly) If you want to take advantage of the links in your signature file with a specific anchor text, in order to build link popularity for your site, and then dont use 3rd party tracking service. Use a tracking link that will be on the same domain as your page and just add a variable at the end of the link. For example if your landing page is: Yoursite.com/leadgenerationtactics.html Then you could use a tracking link like: Yoursite.com/leadgenerationtactics.php?source=forum name and that page would then redirect to yoursite.com/leadgenerationtactics.html The, just by checking your server logs, you would determine the performance of your signature file.About the Author:
