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Ebook - PDF-format

Review  

Michael Green is probably well known to many of you. At least he is if you’ve read my other reviews.

In a short period of time Michael Green has established himself both as a clever Internet marketer and as the owner of one of the most successful and popular discussion boards on Marketing and Small Business: How To Forum.

Forums (also called, 'discussion boards') can be a terrific way to market your business - provided you know how to do it. Unfortunately a lot of forums have been launched during the past years, only to disappear again. These discussion boards lost the focus, or the owners didn't know how to profit from them.

And that's exactly what Michael Green covers is this book: You'll learn all the insider tips to starting up and running - not just yet another discussion board, but a highly successful and profitable discussion board.

"How To Start A Forum" covers so much more than the title reveals at first sight. It's much more than just a pure basic guide to the initial steps you need to take to launch a discussion board. Rather, in this detailed guide Michael Green has included an amazing amount of information about how to turn a discussion board into a highly profitable project.

He does cover all the basic of how you can start and run your own successful discussion board. But he does much more than that.

What I really find attractive in this book is all the details Michael Green covers.

For example, one of the most popular web scripts used to run discussion boards, is the famous, free php-script, PhpBB2. However, one problem with this script is that the pages generated by this, otherwise excellent, script doesn't get as easily indexed by some of the search engines as some of the pages generated by other similiar scripts. How do you solve this problem? Do you skip this excellent script? Do you have to pay hundreds of dollars to get another script? Not if you own, "How To Start A Forum". Because, in "How To Start A Forum" Michael Green shows you exactly where you can find the info that'll help you to solve this problem and optimize the pages generated by PhpBB2 so that they do get indexed by the search engines. And this really makes a very, very important difference. Imagine, by using the guide Michael Green gives you in this course, all the pages your visitors write for you on your discussion board get indexed by the search engines and you get much more traffic. And best of all, your visitors do most of the work for you.

You know, if you want to start a project on the Internet, it’s usually not enough to get a few theoretic tips on what to do. No, unless you already have a good grasp on what you’re doing, you need to know step-by-step what you’re going to do.

If you want to start a successful discussion board, you need to lay a plan for your discussion board. You need to know if there are any potential visitors who’re interested in visiting and participating in the discussion on your board. You need to be sure that you’re willing to pay (mostly in time spent moderating the board) what it needs to keep the board updated and relevant. You also need to know which software you’re going to use to run the board. And of course you need to have a plan for attracting visitors to your discussion board.

These are just a few points that you need to prepare for if you want your discussion board to become a success.

Michael Green all these points step-by-step. He leaves no stone unturned and gives all the details you need to go ahead.

The book is easy to read and Michael Green advice is easy to understand and apply. His writing style is entertaining and right to the point.

In addition to the main manual you get two important and valuable bonus reports that will help you to solve several typical problems you can run into when you try to start your own forum.

The first bonus report gives you a very detailed list over web scripts - free and fee-based - you can use to run your discussion board.

The second bonus report shows you how to use your discussion board to get more visitors from the search engines. This is also the report where you'll find the info I've already mentioned above, showing you how to solve the problem with some forum pages not being indexed by the search engines. This is a very valuable bonus report.

In short, these bonus reports definitely add to the overall value of this excellent course.

Overall assessment

In my opinion Michael Green’s book is a very, very good help to get started. Michael Green gives you all the details you need to get started and turn your discussion board into a highly popular and profitable meeting place. And I’m not afraid to admit that I personally learnt a few things that I didn’t know before.

As you may know, I’ve personally run my own successful and very popular discussion board - The Profits With Information Discussion Board - since the mid-nineties. So, I’ve gotten a good impression of what it takes to run a successful and busy discussion board. And I must admit that I'm impressed by what you get in this course.

If you’d like to get your own successful discussion board and reap all the benefits from it, I strongly recommend you this guide by Michael Green.

Price (at the time of this writing)

US $39.95 (Regular version)

US $57.95 (Gold version)

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