Make Money From Forums
By Steve Gillman
If you have a website about a topic you enjoy, you can from discussion forums. Talk, post links to your site, get traffic. Traffic means money, right? If not, try different affiliate programs or Google Adwords. The worst sites should get a couple cents per visitor. Now here's how to talk and make money.
Search "forum" plus the topic of your site on Google or Alta Vista. For my first site, I searched "backpacking + forum" and in the pages of results I found several good forums. I also searched related topics like "hiking" too. You can also check about.com, and other sites that have forums on many topics.
Registration is usually giving your email address and choosing a password. Some forums allow guests to post without registering. Once registered, browse the forum topics, and post a response to anything, just to "learn the ropes".
Income From Discussion Forums
The point of posting in forums is to get readers to come to your web site. Sure it's fun to give advice and discuss things of interest to you, but that's secondary. With that in mind, do the following:
1. Always link to your site. If they don't allow any links, find another forum.
2. Don't "spam." Sales pitches will be removed. Offer honest advice, or express an opinion, then sign off with your name and the link to your site.
3. Ask for help from others. This is an effective and acceptable way to "advertise." Enter a topic like "Can I get some advice?" and post something like, "I just started a meditation site. If some of you would visit and tell me what you think, I'd really appreciate it." Have a link to the site. People love to help, and to give opinions, and they'll click on those ads while they're at your site.
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Financial Small Business Ideas : Retirement Financial Consultant
Like it or not, the day will come when you need to retire. For some it will come as a welcome end to the daily grind of work. For others, it may be an inconvenient truth that time is catching up. Reports say that more and more people are finding out too late that they don't have enough money saved to live on comfortably for more than 10 to 15 years after retirement. Unfortunately most people neglect planning for their retirement until late in their careers.
Retirement planning can be an overwhelming task. It requires a frank assessment of your present and projected earnings and your retirement needs. It also involves being brutally honest with your lifestyle choices in the present and future. It can be stressful and scary when people realize that they don't have they skills and knowledge of forecasting their finances given the many economic factors that can affect the future. Som, fortunately (for you) there is a trend that shows most people need the help of a Retirement Financial Consultant to help them face the scary task of meticulously planning to help ensure that their intended post-retirement lifestyle can be sustained by their finances. This trend will continue to develop as more businesses focus on the retirement market.
Being a Retirement Financial Consultant means that you will help people plan how much to save or invest for them to be able to enjoy the lifestyle that they envision after retirement. Having experience in finacial consulting or finance industry would be helpful because you will need to have a head for figures, although there are financial forecasting and retirement planning software available now that will perform a myriad of calculations. You need to be able to take a ton of information, analyze your clients' needs and then present to them a clear, concise retirement plan. Some of the more crucial information you will need to ask your clients are :
What age would they like to retire?
How many years from now is that?
How much money do they currently have?
What percentage of current income will be needed for retirement?
A good Retirement Financial Consultant also needs to be able to emphatize with people. You are not merely dealing with numbers - you are dealing with HOW these number will affect people's quality of life in thei future. You may need to deal with a whole range of idiosyncracies, fears and likes and dislikes that are unique to your clients, so patience is a key quality a Retirement Financial Consultant needs to have. Change - even for good reasons - can be stressful and scary. A Retirement Financial Consultant worth his salt will anticipate how these changes will affect his clients and help them through it.
In addition to regular advertisements in you local Yellow Pages and classifieds, you can market yourself as a Retirement Financial Consultant by giving seminars or lectures, publishing a newsletter, writing articles. Networking with bankers and accountants will be a good idea, because they will be in constant contact with lots of people who have MONEY! You could also conduct a series of classes in your local college or community centre on how to make money, money management or similar topics. This helps to give you exposure and build your credibility, plus you never know when you might meet someone with lots of business acquaitances that can be prospects.
With a firm grasp of financial planning coupled with the ability to understand your clients problems and find solutions to them will help see you become a successful Retirement Planning Consulting. Remember that trust and confidence builds over time and your clients will eventually seek your help in their twilight years to deal with senior living issues like healthcare and housing that involve finances. Remember that every client is potentially with you for life. With an ever-growing number of potential clients, you can thrive as a Retirement Financial Consultant until your own retirement - and beyond.
Look at total "views." Many forums show the total times each "thread" has been viewed. When you see some with many more than others, get in on those, or start a new thread on the same topic. Go where the traffic is, and get some of it.
I didn't like the idea of forums until I made a few posts, and saw my traffic and revenue climb for days afterwards. That convinced me. Just be polite, offer some value to others, and always have a link to your site. Many other secrets of using forums are covered in my newsletter, but this should be get you started. Talk and today.
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Steve Gillman writes on many money-related topics. To learn more, and to subscribe for FREE to "Web Site Optimization Secrets," go to: http://www.TheMoneyMakerSite.com
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