Method 3: Making Money With Forums

Forums and CPA offers work perfectly, but if you promote them the right
way you can actually make even more money easily. Did you
know that many people make money just by sending and
adding messages in forums? There are social networks, such
as the digital point and twitter, or www.Facebook.com that
allow personal messages.
Some companies pay $20 - $200 a lead. So it’s easy to come
as being helpful to people and still get paid.
Some advertisers post messages to the members of the
forums, advertising in a simple and not spammy way some of
their offers and products. The best idea is to join either big
social networks, or some particular ones, specializing in your
niche. If for instance you are promoting something related to
poker or sports, it is a good idea to search for the networks
and forums that deal with this subject.
Some forums that you can add your signatures to are:
www.forums.digitalpoint.com , www.ewealth.com,
www.sitepoint.com + others. You can find big forums in your
interests by going to http://www.big-boards.com/
Once you find a few of them, you can join and start chatting
with the other members. It is quite easy to do so, but even if
you don’t have enough time, you can hire a couple of
freelancers for very cheap (www.Elance.com , or
www.GetAFreelancer.com, or www.GetACoder.com ) even
more depending on your needs, who can do this job for you.
Sometimes you don’t even need to send personal messages.
Having a small banner with a catchy title and a link is all what
you need.
Once you sign up you need to check which threads are the
most popular ones, and which are getting more traffic. You
selling or directly promoting anything. You should use a well
appointed and gripping signature to do the job for you.
One little tip that has helped many people get attention is this;
depending on the niche and the subject of the forum, you can
follow some of the top daily or weekly news and use some of
the things you heard in the discussion.
For instance, if you are participating in a forum about mobile
phones, you need to add to the conversation something that
you read recently; let’s say some news about the new
ecological mobile phone that the company X introduced during
the recent Mobile Phone Conference. You have to start a
discussion about a current issue that you know that can get
people’s attention.
Collecting interest to your post means collecting views to your
signature which is anyway, the major goal here. If you are up
to it, or know the forum administrator, you can ask him to
make a serious post of yours sticky, so that it appears always
on the front page and gets views all the time. If you talk about
something that interests many people, it is most likely that
they will click on the signature, or check the website that you
are advertising there.
It is that simple sometimes, if you are smart enough, or if you
simply know how to do it.

Another good idea is to check websites such as Answers.com
or Yahoo Answers. They allow people to answer questions
asked by other users and leave a resource link. You can easily
find a question that refers to your niche and leave your link as
a resource link.