Niche Forum Profits
Internet Forums bring people with similar interests together. Where people come together and talk relationships are formed. This creates an opportunity for online businesses because, as you probably already know very well, where relationships happen business happens too!
As a platform for revenue a forum can be pretty effective.
Imagine that you had a forum discussing your business, for example, a forum all about the field of being a Virtual Assistant. As the leader and owner of the site you would expect to gain a degree of authority and a leadership position in the community. If you made a suggestion then the chances are that many people would respond positively. Here then is a money making opportunity.
On another level, what if you were able to recommend CPA offers, or carried banner ads from companies with offers in your chosen field?
Because the relationships you form are more intimate and longer running than typical in email/list marketing then you can expect conversion rates from forums to be significantly higher than from your email marketing.
On the downside there are some issues that have gone through your mind as you read these words…
- How to create a forum from scratch?
- Will my niche be profitable?
- How do I plan my forum so that I can grow a long term revenue stream?
| Training Video Package: Click To View | 6 Videos For Full Members |
| 1. Finding A Niche Topic For Your Forum and Planning Ahead | 2. ... |
Here’s an outline of your forum community building training package:
1. Finding A Niche Topic For Your Forum and Planning Ahead
The success of your forum points to the planning in your beginning stages for that good niche topic. This will get your forum indexed by the search engines in that niche and will attract your main audience. There are several questions that you’ll want to ask yourself to figure out whether there is a market out there. We’ll look at these specific questions so you can find your niche forum topic and start brainstorming how your forum will produce revenue and build a community.
2. Selecting a Forum Script and Finding Web Hosting
There are many free forum scripts out there, some that have been around for over 9 years. But which ones should you choose? You’ll be given an overview of the many free forums as well as forums that cost some money. Did you also know that large forums tend to take up a good amount of server resources? Even so, that is no excuse to not create one. You’ll learn how to find web hosting that is not only cheap, but that will fit your needs.
3. How to setup phpBB using cPanel and changing the style
While a number of forum scripts will be available to you, in this video you will learn specifically how to install phpBB, which is a highly recommended forum with over 9 years of serving forum owners. To create your uniqueness from other forums, you need to have a good look. In order to have a unique look, you need to customize your phpBB forum style. But how do you do this? It’s really not that hard and you’ll learn just that in this video series.
4. phpBB Forum Features and How to Use Them
It wouldn’t be good just to show you how to install a forum script w/o showing you how to use it right? Once you have setup your forum, you’ll need to access your administrative control panel, which will give you full access to edit and change your forum. We’ll go through the different options that phpBB offers so you can understand how to use it and customized the settings for your own liking.
5. Building Your Community Content: Content Content Content
We all know when you initially build your community you need interaction. But to even get to that point, there are several things you need to do, such as publish some basic content in your threads. It’s been known that people usually don’t respond to empty threads, but respond to content or posts that are already there. You’ll learn how to plan your categories and forums so that you don’t overwhelm yourself. You’ll also learn how to motivate your members, which keeps the interaction moving.
6. Marketing Your Forum to Build a Community
Now that you’ve created your forum and you’re ready to go, let’s start marketing! One thing to make a note of, is before you even think about marketing your community, you should have at least some interaction going on; otherwise people will come and just leave. That’s one of the many tips you’ll learn in this video series. It’s often easy to go all out and try all types of marketing methods, but the secret is to start small. Go to places where people are already interacting in your niche and build from there.
