Well yes I've heard you can. Two things though you have to have a signature with what you are selling and you have to be very active in the forum so that your offer reaches a lot of people
You can drive traffic from forum marketing alone but you'll likely need to set up a landing page somewhere else to turn that traffic into money.
Forum marketing can definitely work. You need to put a lot of time and effort into it though and i have found that just interacting with other users can really help.
Forums can definitely be sucessful in bringing you a return. You can monetize it with ads and affiliate programs to start. Make sure you set up signatures and post across niche appropriate forums to drive traffic to your own forum. Enlist the help of a few guest bloggers as well to keep your site lively, up to date and interesting.
You can definitely build some income from forum posting, but I wouldn't say there's huge profit potential. You'll earn the most by incorporating a variety of strategies, including: SEO, PPC, email, social media, etc. Personally, I've found organic search traffic (through SEO) to be the most profitable. But it's also the most difficult and takes lots of time... If you're just trying to earn a little money from forum posting, I would suggest promoting offers / products that are useful to people who visit that forum. For example, you're probably not going to do much with a nutritional product on a webmaster forum. Likewise, SEO services probably won't do well on a health forum...
You can get traffic and sometimes sales, but you need to be active in forum and post in relevant categories. Also don't limit to just one forum, there are many popular forums, try to use them all for learning, helping and gaining.
We would recommend checking not our overall traffic, but digging and exploring your traffic in dept compared to other months to find the route source of the any problem.
Yes, it is a very effective method of driving traffic to your sales page/website if targeted and done correctly.
Yes. I used to make $2k a month alone with forum marketing, and it had nothing to do with spamming, etc. If you know how to do it, you can very easily pay your mortgage at least with forum marketing.
Yes you can. I've seen people here with 25k+ posts selling signature links for $75/month each and having 4 available. Forum marketing is a great way to make money however I don't think you can make 2k/month to be honest without linking it to another offer, or for selling an ebook. Best of luck!
if ou are selling a product of direct interest and you have he time to make alot of post then you can definitely make money through forum marketing. but there are many easier ways. there are some sites that let you advertise to millions of people free. so you can try other options.
I have got some of my biggest gigs from forums only few years ago. You get best exposure in forums as long as you contribute your expertise... Sometimes, you don't even need a landing page if you're offering some sort of consulting services.
The key to forum marketing is to try to add value here at the forum. Genuinely try to help and assist people with theis questions and issues in a friendly way, and you'll be successful.