My love affair with the Internet Marketing Forums
I started out with the idea of forum marketing but, somewhere along the way, I have found that I am now in the midst of a love affair with the forums. There is much more to the forums than just forum marketing.
Yes, I will admit that I still use the forums. By starting good threads or making appropriate and educated responses to other’s comments, I have been able to promote my image as a knowledgeable professional internet marketer. But, that is only a small part of the story. I have found that by spending time on the forums, I have been able to glean the combined knowledge of the best internet marketers in the world. I have learned more about internet marketing from the forums than from any other single source.
For example, I am currently in the process of working on my own Ebook that I plan to market on Click Bank. Fortunately, one of the discussions that was started today was about recent rule changes that Click Bank has made which will dramatically affect the way in which I both write my book and in the sales literature that will accompany the book.
In an effort to stay in compliance with FTC (Federal Trade Commission) regulation on advertising, Click Bank no longer allows you to make claims that you can make specific dollar amounts with any given product. The FTC considers this to be false advertising and the last thing that Click Bank needs is trouble with the FTC. For example, you may say if you can substantiate the figures, “I made $10,268 dollars on a single day with this product.” The key to being able to say that is that you can prove it. On the other hand, you may not say, “I made $10,268 dollars in a single day and now, you can too.” If you were to use that comment, you would run afoul of both Click Bank and the FTC. The difference is that you can prove the first statement but, the second statement is pure conjecture and will be labeled as false advertising.
It is an important lesson and one that I might not have known about had I not been reading the marketing forums. Even if I were to stop forum marketing, I would still visit them everyday. There is just so much information that you can learn from the professionals on the forums that you are truly doing yourself a disservice if you don’t visit them on a regular basis. Knowledge along with it’s application has always been and will always be your key to success on the internet. No matter how expert you think you are, there is always someone out there with even greater expertise. Visit the forums and learn from the best.