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Whatever
market you are in, you can find discussion forums in your market,
and they are easy to find just by searching the web sites that
your market caters to. There are lots of them out there.
Basically, a discussion forum, if you are not familiar with them,
is kind-of like a bulletin board where people come and chat, except
it's not in real time. You don't actually see responses live,
although it's almost instantaneous. If it is a marketing forum,
for example, there would be a list of people who posted questions
and then people who answered the questions, so that you would
see them in a streaming format.
At the very top of the page is the most recent question that they
posted or a comment that they had, and then underneath that you'll
see a list of people who responded to that and their messages.
You can click on it, read the full question, and you can read
the full response.
Now, what you can do to use this to your advantage and to drive
people to your web site for years to come, is you can actually
start participating in these discussions that are related to your
market.
There are three different kinds of people that visit discussion
forums. The first kind are the people that ask questions. The
second are people who answer questions. The third is the person
who doesn't ask or answer, but they
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