When a social media site is new, it’s looking to build up users and traffic. To do this, it’s willing to give marketers a ton of organic reach for free.

That $5,000 a month figure only took him about 7 months to achieve, by the way.
We’ll call our guy Mark (not his real name) and here’s what he did.

You might think you can start an online community with a tiny number of people and grow it from there.
It’s a nice idea, but it almost never works. Think of the last time you went to a forum that hadn’t had a new post made in a month. What did you do? You left and never came back.

When you successfully build your own online community, you’ll be creating a place where people who share your passion can get the latest news, express their own love for the niche and even become your best, most vocal product advocates.

What system of marketing that has proven to be an effective way to increase brand awareness and drives sales sees a return on investment of $5.78 for every $1 spent?