Everybody needs friends, in order to be happy, in my opinion.  We need people to help encourage us and give us advice and feedback.  Just because you can’t always physically interact with your online friends, doesn’t mean that they can’t be great friends and even better friends than that are physically in your life.

One of the reasons why it is so great is that there are so many people to meet online.  I live in the country and the closest city has a little over 800 people living in it, how many people am I going to meet that are into Internet Marketing?  I don’t even know if there is another Internet Marketer in the city?

Unless you go to these Internet Marketing conferences or events, you will probably not meet another Internet Marketer in person, at least not very many.  I must admit that I don’t go to those things, so I have to meet everyone online.

I meet Internet Marketers through mainly Internet Marketing forums and also through Facebook.  I’m at the friend limit of about 5,000 friends.  Not all of them Internet Marketers, but a fair share of them are.  A lot of gurus are on my friend list, as well.

The main forum that I use now is Warrior forum. At this forum, the members are serious about making money online.  They have committed to their online business by investing in their online business, by belonging to the forum. 

Most of these members are very smart marketers and the percentage of people that belong to that forum that are successful to the percentage that isn’t.  I would estimate that, after I’ve been there a year and a half, that the percentage of successful people on that forum, is way, way higher than the free forums that I belong to.

I’ve offered special offers on there and made money that way and developed some great relationships with customers.  They are great for getting feedback, advice, testimonials, working with in the future etc.  I’ve had a lot of repeat business on forums and have gotten a ton of great advice, feedback and testimonials.