Are you posting in forums and message boards on a regular basis? If not why? There is a wealth of information and an abundance of people on them and they can help your business in a big way.

First, you can read the messages and get useful information and ideas on how to grow your business. Some of the best advice I have found on the internet came from forums and message boards. Along with this, be sure to say thank you to anyone who gives you useful information or helps you out in anyway.

Second, you can post your articles or websites and ask for help to improve them. Forums are great for getting feedback.

Third, you can offer advice and build relationships and that is what business building is all about. The big key here is to make sure that you offer free books, ecourses, and other real useful information along with your signature file linking to your website. Never ever spam.

Fourth visit the sa

me message boards on a regular basis. Many of the same people hang out there and you will build better relationships by showing up and contributing often.

Here are some hints about where to go to find message boards:

Try going to google, yahoo and other search engines and look for all different kinds of forums and message boards. The big key is to not limit your search to business based boards.

For example: I am a grad student and I speak French fluently. Some of the unique places where I post include: the French.about.com- French language forums and the young entrepreneur forum.

Also you can search at: http://www.forumzilla.com for forums to post to.

When deciding whether or not a forum or message board is worth posting to, look to see when the last time someone else posted. If it has been more than 2 months, chances are you would be wasting your time as the board or forum is dead or almost dead, they have low traffic and you want to post in places with high traffic.