Explode Your Marketing With A Personal Development Forum

The personal development niche is worth billions of dollars a year. People across the world are flocking to the self improvement book shelves searching for information and desperate to improve their lives.

There are a lot of traditional methods of reaching your market, but with the rise of Web 2.0 technologies there is a brand new method of reaching a highly targeted, and eager, audience.

A personal development forum used to be a good place to find this audience, but people are moving away from these archaic, text based forums into communities of the MySpace and FaceBook kind. These new communities are taking the world by storm as a way to not only meet people but to share information and resources.

These new web based communities combine the traditional forum format with the ability to share audio, video, pictures and articles (usually via a blog on the community site).

Joining one of these sites will really help your business take off because you can advertise your products and services under the guise of joining in the community. Obviously, don't be too overt in your advertising, though some sites do allow classified adverts, so take advantage of those sites!

Visitors to these online communities browse through all the information available and you will find people following them through to your site and entering your marketing funnel.

By posting these resources you can establish yourself as an expert in your field. It's a great way to build your reputation and build your traffic. Not only do you get these people viewing your resources and coming through to your site, but you are also gathering free backlinks to your site in the search engines! Most social networking sites are regularly spidered because they have a lot of activity on them.

If you are a marketer in the self improvement niche, then you need to be joining a personal development community today and marketing your products and services.