Use Your Sig Line and Forum Postings To Distribute Your Free Report Bait and/or Ebook and/or free service
STEP ONE: How to Promote The Program With Your Sig File:

In addition to using your signature file in all email you send out, did you know you can also use it in most forums? If you make helpful posts in discussion forums and newsgroups, you are usually given a place to list your web site address and a short description. And that's a great place to use your Marketing Dashboard signature file, Amazing Formula sig file or any other you create.

STEP TWO: How to find forums to post to:

There are ways to search message boards and forums by the topic or key word of post. That way, instead of just monitoring a few forums, the whole Internet is your playing field.

With this knowledge, you could spend 1-3 hours a day just making posts using this promotion method, depending of course on your topic.

OK, let's discuss specifics on how to do it.

Here's an example of how you put your tagline in most online discussion forums.

Just be sure you don't spam forums, mailing lists or discussion boards with commercial posts. The proper approach is simply to give intelligent answers to the questions other participants ask and list your reseller URL and a brief description. That's it.

Placing pure commercial posts or hyping products in discussion boards can get both you and me in heaps of trouble. Don't do it!

Listen up: If you decide to post to newsgroups then read this carefully...

Do NOT post your reseller URL in newsgroups. Set up an autoresponder that they can subscribe to if they want to know more about the product you're promoting. Why? Because if you screw up and offend someone and have your Reseller URL posted in the newsgroup then what happens is they complain to our host, we get shut down and your reseller URL goes with it. People in newsgroups don't screw around!

I encourage you to post your reseller URL in forums and discussion boards. But not newsgroups! If you post to a newsgroup without using an autoresponder and they complain, you'll lose your reseller privileges and forfeit commissions earned in that month. Newsgroups are dangerous and not for beginners. It's fine and even encouraged for beginners to participate in online forums. You're much more welcome there.

When you scan down the posts in the forums, you'll see people asking all kinds of questions and requesting resources. You make a helpful post answering their question and then type in your URL and tagline in the place provided. That's it.

STEP THREE: CREATE YOUR SUBJECT LINE

The KEY to a post that gets you lots of hits is the subject line. You are always allowed to give your post a title.

Here's an example of how to type in your subject line.

I like to post a subject line that promises valuable information. Think of something that will make other people want to read the post.

Please understand -- the signature files provided below are ONLY for my product. I can't possibly cover the wide variety of products you may be reselling.

Beyond that, all you do is place helpful posts in online forums. You can post brief tips that CONTAIN USEFUL INFORMATION. Do NOT under any circumstances post an ad for a product. Always, always, always post valuable information and then refer to your free report in your SIG line.

I don't care what product you're selling -- computer software, a dating service, or bananas to Eskimos. You can always come up with problem-solving tips for the target audience.

STEP FOUR: How to track your posting results:

The easiest way to get rid of long url's is to use Pretty Link if you have a blog. If not, try Bud URL.

The subject line of your post determines most of the response to it.

Be careful of a practice called cross-posting. This is where you write one tip or article and post it to multiple forums. This is generally frowned on.

However, you can write these tips quickly with practice. So write different tips and rotate them to different forums. You could place a tip in one forum. Then 3 to 6 weeks later place it in another forum.

Or just write fresh tips. What you can and cannot do depends greatly on the forums you are posting to.

STEP FIVE: A routine for making sales every week

Develop a list of 10-50 forums that target your market or different markets for the same product.

Then every day write a tip or two and post to several forums. Get a system going and track results. You will soon learn what works and what doesn't.

STEP SIX: Two routes to success

Route 1: Respond intelligently to questions that are asked on the board. Include your url in the space provided. You can do posts like this every day and create a regular income. You can make the rounds to 5-20 forums daily.

Route 2: Create canned posts that are tips and post them. They should contain valuable information and NOT be a pitch for a product.

If you post an obvious pitch for a product, you're going to get fried! DO NOT DO IT. What you do is post valuable information and include your sig line or your URL in the space provided. If people like your post, they will check out your web site.

THE KEY IS A SYSTEM. YOU DO IT REGULARLY AND CONSISTENTLY. A ROUTINE. Hit and miss does not work. Get a system. A routine. And do it all the time without fail.

Here is a post I added to a forum that was not in response to a question. Sometimes if I have neat ideas or find a cool resource, I pass it along in a post in several forums. If I come up with a killer subject line, this always generates sales.

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The SECRET of posting in forums is to provide genuinely helpful information other people may not know and at the end, tack on your signature file. When you provide helpful information that saves people time or money, they value it and you won't upset the forum by going in and posting blatant advertisements.

Try to think of 3 ways you can save someone time, money or energy and write up 3 posts to submit. Match a product with the post. For example, if you write a post with tips on how to test different headlines on your website, a good matching product would be the Push Button Letters software. But you can come up with any type of tip/product recommendation you can think of. The above steps pretty much apply to any type of forum post.