For almost any niche you can focus on as an Internet marketer there are nearly an infinite number of message boards or forums that address it. If these forums also manage to garner a fair share of traffic, it's a simple matter to capitalize on that traffic in a really big way. You don't have to make a long-term effort in order to put this plan into place. But if you want to get maximum value from your efforts, it will require some time and patience on your part. It's up to you what the best choice might be.
One of the most important pages you can read at a forum is the one with the terms of service (TOS) on it. You'll need to know this information so that your participation can be long and bring you greater profit. If you violate their TOS, then you can be banned for a short while or for life. Also, forum moderators generally don't care if you've read them or not. They exist and you're responsible for knowing about them. Either way, they feel like it's your responsibility to know the TOS, and it is when you think about it. Anything else they may have in terms of guidelines and policies should be read and followed.
What you need to do in any forum is mix things up which means a combination of posts and threads you start yourself. Starting your own threads may be a little difficult at first due to shyness. Begin by thinking of information you have that can be valuable to the community and share it. Don't forget to invite others to join in and offer their own comments to the thread as well.
A great way to get comments is to make a controversial statement. You may have to walk a fine line when it comes to controversy and it can be a judgment call. One thing you don't want to do Website is start a thread that's off-topic for the forum or something ridiculous.
Any time you join a forum, you have control over your own persona or how people view you. You can create whatever character that you want to be. But discover this use this with careful thinking because you never know what's in the future. If you are a really aggressive person, you can change this in the very beginning. There may not be a lot of people who are strong like yourself. However, you control how others will see you. Depending on your niche, you may not want people to know how you really are. So you may want to think about this depending on your circumstances and what your goals are.
It's really easy to make this work without spending much more than five hours a week for all your forum marketing efforts regardless of how many forums you're working with. That's nothing when you're talking about high-value marketing activity. The key is to diversify as much as possible so that your business is somewhat insulated from the instability of marketing online.