Online forums have been one of the greatest tools to help me build my online business. When I first started my business, one of the training lessons I had, stressed the importance of posting to forums at least 5 times a day. As a beginner that seemed pretty impossible to do. The first time I logged into a forum I was so overwhelmed by all the different posts I was reading. All that kept going through my mind was "What do I possibly have to contribute here, these people all know what they are talking about and I don't".
I found through reading a lot of posts in the different threads that there were a lot of people who had the same questions that I had. There were even some questions that I could answer for others. In no time at all those five posts a day grew to10 to 20 a day in different forums.
While reading and posting to the different forums you get such a great education on how to run a successful business whether it is a brick and mortar, or internet business. So many possibilities open up to you. Things like partnerships, creating and putting out new products, website building, learning html, and so on.
Forums are also a great way to promote your business. You can generate a lot of links pointing back to your site. You have to be careful when promoting. All forums have their strict instructions on how to advertise your site, and what you can and cannot discuss on their forums.
All in all forums are a great place to spend time on a daily basis. It can get pretty addicting, but the pay off is great.
