All About Forums
Step
1 - Use Forums To Find Your Customers
Forums or discussion
boards are great resources for entrepreneurs! You can get a great feel
for what your customer base looks for when searching for solutions.
The first place
to look for forums is Forumone. This
site allows you to search of 270,000 discussion groups!
Next, visit Yahoo!
at http://messages.yahoo.com. Yahoo!,
as you might be aware, is extremely popular - you can have a field day
exploring all the different discussion groups its visitors create.
And you just
can't pass up Dejanews at http://www.dejanews.com.
Dejanews is a supercool interface to Netnews or Usenet or what's nowadays
simply called "News." Thousands upon thousands of articles are
achived at this site; you can use the Power
Search to zoom directly to where people are discussing your topic.
You'll find this valuable beyond belief.
Step
2 - Add A Forum To Your Web Site
You should always
have a forum on your web site. Forums encourage the development of Internet
communities and leave a very positive impression upon your visitors.
It's not difficult
at all to add a forum! Consider the following two options:
WebBBS
- Shareware, it's highly customizable and powerful. Easy to install, too.
And if you do have questions, you can always visit their support forums
here.
Ultimate
BBS - One of, if not the, most attractive and powerful bulletin boards
available on the market today. A freeware version is also available! You
can see an awesome example of it at The
Recruiter's CoffeeShop.
Step
3 - Excellent Resources For Care And Feeding Of Your Forums
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