Russell Brunson has just launched a
Viral Forum!
I'm excited to see how this plays out, and I want to give you an honest review of what I think of it.
It's called Conquer Your Niche, and it's a forum that incentivizes activity by rewarding members with ad credits every time they read a thread, or make a post.
On top of that, you will also get ad credits from those you refer to become members, AND from the members they refer, And the members they refer down through 5 levels.
5 Levels of viral growth, which has the potential to be exponential!
There is NO DOubt in my mind that this system has HUGE potential, and as many of Russell Brunson's products and services, it is very well thought out and created by a team of successful internet marketers.
However, I do see some potential problems with the system, and I am not sure at this point they are being overlooked or not.
First - There may be a lot of SPAMmers and/or irrelevant posts that people are posting just to get the ad credits.
According to the rules of the forum, you are not allowed to advertise directly in your posts (Aside form your signature at the end). I'm sure this will be moderated, but it may be a large job to moderate all the potential Spammy posts that are received.
More importantly and what would be more difficult to moderate, would be posts that are irrelevant or just plain boring. When people are motivated by receiving ad credits, and NOT just by creative inspiration, you may find that there are a lot of posts that are not so relevant, or are just plain boring.
For example: Let's say that John Doe posts an interesting post about "Niche Conquering Strategies" which is an informative and relevant post. Then 12 other people post replies to this post that are all generally along the lines of "Nice post John", "Very informative John, you know your stuff", "Thanks John, you really put things in perspective for me", etc... etc... etc...
My question to Russell would be: Are posts of that nature going to count for credits? They don't actually break the rules in any way. More importantly though, are posts of this nature going to flood out all the posts that are actually interesting and informative from people that have questions or comments about the original post?
Second - I'm not entirely sure how interesting the forum is going to be for just anyone. This again plays off of my first point, and because the incentive is for advertising, it will be catering to a specific crowd of people. Particularly marketers, which means that you may be best to advertise marketing related products there or 2-tier affiliate programs and such.
It certainly won't be a place that caters to everyone and everything, but if your target market is ingternet marketers, then I would suggest that you'd be wise to become a member and get your ads up on the site.
At this point, there seem to be a lot of members, and it's growing rapidly. This site reminds a bit of
Instant Buzz, which is based on ad credits as well, and is highly successful as a continually growing viral site.
Since Russell's Viral Forum only just launched today, we'll have to wait and see if the potential problems I mentioned are able to be dealt with, or if they cause the forums destruction. I would think though, that Russell will do whatever is within his power to avoid and remedy and situations that take away from the overall effectiveness of his forums success.
All in all,
I recommend joining the Forum and testing it out to see how effective it is as an advertising medium, and there is definitely the possibility that this could become one of the most popular internet marketing forums in a very short amount of time.
You better join now and start promoting it ASAP if you want to build a downline, because many others will be doing the same, and you want to get in at the top for greatest success.
Join Now by clicking this link!Good luck,
Jambhala Rinpo
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