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Participate on Forums
3 Help – After you feel comfortable with your new community and you
know your way around your new hangout, feel free to help people.
Helping people by responding to their questions and providing
information to them will make you highly respected in any forum. So
long as you’re not pushing your own content or links to your website.
Be as unbiased as possible and help them as genuinely as you can.
4 Promote the Right Way – Once you feel that you have developed
real relationships with members of the community and you are
truly one of them – then slowly let your business be known. Start by
going back to your bio and link to your website. When you feel really
comfortable and if the forum allows it, create a signature that either
links back to your website or provides a way to solve problems for the
community.
By tapping into a already passionate community that’s the perfect target
market for your product, not only is all the time and effort worth it when
it comes to forums, it’s almost equivalent to a goldmine when it comes to
finding your early customers when starting out. So make sure to keep at it.
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