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Take Care on the Marketing Forums

While having a membership on the marketing forums can in some ways be beneficial, it’s best to not invest too much time in them.  Many of the true winners in Internet business don’t even subscribe to them.  It can ultimately be a distraction.

Think of it this way:  Marketing forums exist for new people to speak with other marketers.  Bearing this thought in mind, guess what kind of marketer has the highest percentage of memberships?  The newbie, of course.  Guess what?  Many of them think they have the answers.

Some marketing forums have wised up to this idea, so they created different categories for the profiles.  This way, you can more easily pick out the experienced marketers from the green horns.  This has its own problems as well.

The more successful marketers that still hang out on the forums got there for a reason.  They didn’t give away all their secrets.  An experienced marketer knows that when they reveal one of their tricks, the Internet will almost instantly be saturated with marketers using that technique, and it will become useless.

Handling questions boils down to two different approaches, depending on the ethics of the experienced marketer.  The more ethical ones will simply not mention them or respond should you happen upon their secret.  There’s no verification or help there, but at least no serious harm is done.

Then there are the others.  A less ethical marketer will not suffer new competition.  You can expect misleading information from this kind of person.  The problem is, as a new marketer, you’re not going to know immediately who they are.

The best advice that can be given about going to the forums is to sit back and watch before engaging anyone.  Wait a few weeks and observe who is saying what.  Use your common sense.  If an answer sounds fishy, it probably is.