As a starting work at home business owner, you often do not have the capital to invest in promoting your business. The goal then becomes finding strategies to keep advertising costs as low possible while still generating enough traffic to earn money at home. This can be tricky but online there are numerous ways to advertise for free or at a low cost. One of the best ways to promote your business is through work from home forums.

Marketing in forums is by no means a new concept people have using them to earn money at home for ages. However, a number of new marketers are reluctant to get in and participate, instead they sit quietly on the sidelines and watch the conversation. Now while this is a good way to learn and you should take time to do this before jumping in, it’s time you got off the sides and started earning money online by participating.

Work from home forums boast a number of benefits that many other marketing methods lack. Below are a few reasons why you should stop browsing and start participating.

1. Forums are free or low cost.

Five years ago if you were to ask “where can I get free traffic” any expert would have recommended starting in forums. Fast forward to today and the answer remains the same. Even social media platforms are modeled after forums.

Forums allow the free exchange of information. People use them to find information, rant, rave, or connect with likeminded people. And all this activity takes place for free. Some professional forums charge a member ship fee but it’s usually reasonable. Connecting with so many other people for little or nothing at all is something you should definitely take advantage of.

2. Forums are great for promotion phobes.

When you first start your quest to earn money online you may be lacking the necessary marketing skills it takes to sky rocket your profits. But as a niche marketer you know that you have expertise in at least one area. Forums allow you to convey this information to people without having to advertise. If your post is valuable it can help to sell you as a credible expert which ultimately means more traffic.

You do well in forums when you don’t actively advertise and instead leave it to your signature to drive traffic to your website. When you post regular, valuable content and add to other posts people are going to want more of you and they will gladly leave the forum to visit your site.

3. Forums provide targeted traffic.

One of the hardest things about marketing online is getting directly in front of your target audience. In forums however, that’s all been done for you. As I mentioned earlier forums are made up of like minded people, people who share an interest in your niche. This makes the task of looking for your target audience much easier.

A search in Google groups with your niche keywords will turn up related forums. This benefits you in two ways. One the people there want to hear what you have to say, two once they decide to visit your site they are more likely to be interested in your websites offer. All this translates to earning money at home.

If you have been sitting on the sideline simply watching the conversations in work at home forums it’s time you joined in, thousands of people are doing it and their earning money without you.

In this article I will give you a simple game plan, when executed, can make you upto $1200 and much more every month by just writing articles.

Is it easy, effortless and will it require time and money?

First let me answer these questions before getting started.

Yes it is easy but it does require some initial cut throat efforts from your part.

Yes, it will require some time every day to execute this plan but it is almost free. It will not cost you a dime after some initial setup.

So how to execute this system. This system is based on my initial testing and it has a viral effect that will build up a strong foundation of your internet business for lifetime, once you have put some initial efforts.

And yes, this system is also based on duplication. Example 1 article gets x visitors so 10 articles will get 10x visitors and 10x sales.

Thats what I am about to show you. If this system is executed based on the duplication system then making money using this system is a numbers game.

Ok Murtuza, it’s enough, now please show me the system, I can hear you saying.

This is not something you have never heard about.

It is a simple game plan. The reason that I have boiled this down into a step by step process is that maximum people fail in article marketing because they are not consistent enough and they never have a clue as to what is happening with their articles, they are not tracking them enough to get the numbers.

Now I will show you exactly what you need to do and how to play the numbers game.

Step 1 – I am sure you have something to sell right now that you want to promote using articles. Whether it may be your own product or any affiliate product. If you don’t have it, find one hot selling product right now.

Step 2 – Write a killer article in your niche. It’s simple to write articles, you will find many articles and ebooks showing you how to write a simple article.

It’s not difficult. Frankly I never follow any steps while writing articles, I just write as if I am speaking to a friend sitting next to me and explaining him a particular topic.

Think it that way and I bet it will be extremely easy for you to churn out killer articles at rocket speed.

Step 3 – Find out a killer article distribution service. I personally use ‘Article Marketer’ to distribute my articles.

There are many softwares and services in the market and some are free. Check out a killer article distribution service or a software right now.

Step 4 – Get in place a link tracking and a ROI ( Return On Investment ) tracking system.

You will need this to determe the conversion ratio of your website and track the visitors coming to your website through your articles.

I personally use ‘Ad Track Z’ to track my website conversion rates.

Once you have a tracking system in place, insert your tracking link in the resource box of your article. This will help you to track visitors pouring into your website through your article.

Step 5 – Now keep a watch as to what is happening behind the scenes. Write 10 articles and submit it to article distribution service. Check out your tracking system next few days. Lets say each article got you 20 visitors, so you received 200 visitors by submitting 10 articles.

Your website conversion ratio is 2%, therefore you sold 2 products each making you $30 net profit. So you made a total of $60 profits by writing and submitting 10 articles.

This simply means that 1 article made you a net profit of $6. This is the number that you should track down. What is the net profit that each article is giving you?

Now it is simple math. Doing x work you make y profits. So doing 2x work you should make 2y profits.

Writing 1 article made you $6 profits. If you write 100 articles you will make $600 profits.

And if you write 200 articles every month, you will make $1200 profits.

My main goal in this article is to explain you that tracking and planning can make you print your checks every month in this game of internet marketing.

It is simple, making money online or by article marketing is a SIMPLE numbers game.