I’m sure almost all of you have heard that you must promote yourself as a leader first and foremost, and after you do so, people will follow you and join you and your business.  This brings up quite a few immediate questions I had in my head when I heard this.  What do I teach?  Who do I teach?  How do I teach?  Where do I teach?  Where do I begin?

There’s one simple answer for all of these questions.  The Forums!

FIRST AND FOREMOST, READ THE RULES OF EACH INDIVIDUAL FORUM BEFORE YOU START POSTING!!!!! I CAN’T STRESS THAT ENOUGH!

Do not spam the forums! Don’t pitch your products even if they’re great training products.  Your main goal in the forums is to educate others so that you’re their leader.

While you’re on the forums, you’ll be learning from and sharing information with a lot of marketers and people who already have a business of their own.  Although you essentially want to get people into your business opportunity, You don’t necessarily want to promote that to marketers upfront.  I would suggest pushing a capture page that promotes some generic marketing information or a generic marketing training product that will promote you as a leader.  If you have a blog, that would be a great place to send traffic.

Most forums don’t allow you to post links inside your forum posts, so you’re going to have to put your link inside your signature which will be attached to every single post you make.  Think if you make 3 posts a day.  That’s putting out 20+ links per week for your blog or capture page site.  As I stressed earlier, don’t post a link to your primary business as most of the people in the forums already have their own business!  It’s a great idea to have an Attraction Marketing system and autoresponder similar to the one I have here: http://www.SecretMLMcode.com , that way people will receive some more quality information from you and continue to see you as a leader.  Another great place to send them would be your Blog!  If you’re sending them to your business capture page, they’ll probably just walk away, and you’ll lose them forever!

Inside the forums, you’ll be able to cover all of the 5 questions we asked at the beginning of this letter.   You’ll be able to meet both leaders and followers, you’ll be able to learn and teach, essentially you will be able to learn what you need to in order to become the leader and then start teaching right away!

If you come across a topic that interests you, but you don’t know how to answer a question, you can do some research on the topic.  Research some articles on a site like http://www.ezinearticles.com , learn the topic for yourself, then go back to the forums and answer the questions yourself.  When you approach the forums this way, not only will you be promoting yourself as a leader, but you’ll also be learning about the topic yourself.  Kill 2 birds with 1 stone!

Like any other marketing strategy, you must be consistent.  If you make a few posts every day in different forums, you’ll have hundreds of your links out there in no time, promoting yourself as a leader and attracting the PERFECT type of person to your sites.  This is GOLDEN!

Below I have listed a few of the forums for you to start with.  The first one was created by Mike Dillard, and is a great place to meet leaders!

http://www.betternetworker.com

http://www.warriorforum.com/

http://homebasedbusinessforums.com

To your success,