Top Marketing Forums

What is an Forum?

An forum is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.

They differ from chat rooms in that messages are often longer than one line of text, and are at least temporarily archived.

Why Need a Forum? Networking Opportunities :

Unlike networking events, online forums provide a networking opportunity 24/7. If you’re active in your chosen forum and interact with people then that’re all the networking actions you will need.

Gain Ideas :

Online forums allow you to tap into the pulse of all things happening in your niche. The more people there are talking in the forum, the more potential there is for you to gain ideas.

Mentorship :

An online forum is an excellent way to get established freelancers to mentor you – for free, and some of them are even industry elite! Remember when I said that a forum increases your knowledge by allowing you to ask questions and get answers? Well that’s your free mentorship too. You’re getting all these amazing advices for free!

Top Forums

Warrior Forum :

One of the original Internet marketing forums, the Warrior Forum is noted for the more serious marketer.

The geographic makeup tends to be more from the English speaking countries and it has a high percentage of American, Canadian, British and Australian members.

There is an absolute wealth of information on this forum and it's the one site you definitely should be a member of.

SitePoint :

Another long time player, SitePoint originally became popular because of the webmasters who were visiting it and looking for information on how to build and create their sites.

It evolved over time to become an all encompassing webmaster, internet marketing and online entrepreneurship forum.

The standard of posts is generally quite high; people are helpful and can provide quality information.

WebmasterWorld :

One of the original forums on the Internet for Webmasters and the layout has barely changed since - when you hit a winning formula why change it!

The forum used to be a paid forum but that business model was unsustainable since so many new forums sprung up. They still have a paid section, like the Warrior Forum which gives you access to paid members only sections.

It's not very good for promoting and marketing your website as they have very strict guidelines on mentioning any websites and you can't even put your link in a signature.

Buxoff :

Dedicated to discussing ways to promote your market your online coupons, the Buxoff forum is highly recommended because it bridges the gap between stores and the consumers.

It focuses on the various Ecommerce topics and has a lot of successful people there to help you out. Most of the discussion is centered around the online coupons, ecommerce and online marketing, so if this is something you'd like to get in to, Buxoff is probably the best forum you can be a member of.

It will give you loads of tips and tricks on how to successfully apply coupons and deals.

DigitalPoint :

The DigitalPoint forum has unfairly gotten the name of the gutter forum in the webmaster and Internet marketing world.

It has fairly liberal and open policies and has become increasingly used by webmasters and Internet marketers from developing countries who are keen to make a buck or two -resulting in low quality 'me too' posts simply to promote the links in their signatures.

With that said, I take advantage of this by often hiring people from DigitalPoint to do various bits of work for me like submissions, content, design and programming.