ZedBiz Marketing Blog

One of the greatest sourced of information are online

forums. There are many on the net. Almost every guru on the

net has his or her own forum. There are some big forums geared

at web development, seo, and just about anything else to deal

with running a business on the net.

I am active in quite a few of these forums.
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Internet Based Mom's forum is one of the main ones that I

check in regularly, as I am a moderator on that forum. I also

regularly check in on the Warrior forum, TurboCommunity,

Internet Buzz, Adsense and Rich Jerk among others. Many others

I pop in at occasionally to check what the latest info is and

make a few replies, maybe start my own threads if there is

something that I am working on and need some info.

This does a couple things. First of all it keeps me abreast

of the latest in the industry. It keeps me in touch with new

concerns and happenings. It also gets my name out in the

Industry and provides back links to my various sites (I change

up the signature on various forums, but ALWAYS have a signature

in my posts).

But what it also does is make me part of a community. It

gets me involved. It is in a way volunteerism. I take the

time to answer posts when I have what I think is valuable info.

I help out people by giving critiques of their sites. I do

this because others have done the same for me at one time or

another, and I will need it again.

Without people taking an active part in online forums they

will die. If you look at any thread you see 2 things, views

and replies. Yes if you start a thread you want people to view

it, but the most important thing is replies. Without replies,

your thread will soon fall off the first page and move into

oblivion (we all know 95% of forum viewers only view the first

page). Replies are the life blood of forums.

So my call to action is get involved, get active in those

online forums. Do it for your own good, to get the advantages

I listed above. But do it also to keep the forums alive and

vibrant. I want your opinion, I want your experience, I want

your point of view - I value it, and cherish it!

A Big THANKS for your next forum post.

Jack

posted by zedbiz @ 6:51 PM