Forums are a great way of making money online as well as being part of a like-minded community. Now your not going to become rich by marketing on forums, but every extra dollar that you can squeeze into your business always helps.
Let's identify why forums are a great place to market your network marketing opportunity.
1) Forums are highly targeted traffic.
2) You can learn great new tips and tricks on any topic.
3) Your links remain over time and increase in number with every one of your posts.
4) People that click through your ads will already be familiar with network marketing or internet marketing.
5) Prospects from a home business or network marketing forum that join your business will already know how to get off to a fast start without your help.
With forums it's all about being in the right place at the right time and developing relationships with the other forum members. If you post a comment on a highly viewed thread hundreds of prospects in a single day may see your signature box with your ad.
One thing that you never ever do is post a comment just to get your signature box seen. This is called spamming and the other forum members will know what your doing and they'll remember you as being someone that tries to take away from the community instead of adding to it.
Only post to the forum when you have something of value to add, otherwise, read, learn, and wait for your turn to chime in. A quick bit of advice if noone on the forum has made a post it's not worth your time to become a member.
In your forum resource box don't try to sell your product. Use the word FREE, always keep a website link and don't forget to track. You only want to participate in forums that your generating leads from, otherwise, your wasting your time.