In the last post I explained how to use email copy to recommend good products to your friends and family, in this post, I will explain how to refer a product in a forum. Again, you should not spam in any circumstances, the pre-condition for you to refer a product from time to time in forums is that you’ve been an active discussion participant all the time, and you’ve been answering people’s questions, trying to help, and contributing ideas or contents to the forum(s).
Only if you are already an active forum participant, you will gain some legitimacy to refer products in the following circumstances.
Circumstance #1, when other people ask a direct question about your experience of certain products. For example, if a person asks:”which internet telephony provider offers good rates to call US and Canada?”, then it is legitimate for you to say: check this company out, they offer $0.015/min to call US and Canada, I’ve been using it for 2 years and so far so happy…”. Notice there is an affiliate link in your answer, but you truly like Vbuzzer and you are helping him with an answer. This is what people call legitimate referrals.
Circumstance #2, when other people ask a question about which product to choose from a bunch of similar products, you can write a review as objective as you can, and within the product review, you can insert your affiliate ID of one or multiple products. A typical example will be like this. Q: Which VoIP service should I choose from? A: You can choose X with these pros and cons… Y with these pros and cons… and Z with these pros and cons… I’ve been using this for a while and really liked its combination of price, quality and stability etc… Notice that you’ve embedded an affiliate link for the product you recommend.
Circumstance #3, you don’t refer a product with direct questions and answers, instead, you just participate in forum discussions as usual, on any topics that interest you. And you just make a signature file at the end of every posts, this way, you are can join any forums of your interests, and dedicate to the topics, without the need of referring a irrelevant products. But since you establish your authority in certain topics, people may want to click through your signature files to find out what interest you. A typical signature file looks like the followings.
Chris Nano
A Buzzer Lover
Refuse to be counted out…
You may ask: is forum still a good place to refer a product? Yes it is! It is still the most powerful place for people to hang around and have interactive discussions on any topic, including product offers, discount info, etc. People like to receive valuable information and share experience with others, as long as you truly like something and provide quality recommendations, you will be well respected in the online spaces.
Actually, forum is going into its 2.0 version now, and people call it “social media”, in the next post I will explain what is social media, and how you can leverage it to your benefit.
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