I am pretty active on forums throughout the week when not overloaded with work. Because of my involvement in forums, I have enjoyed all of the following benefits one time or another - acquiring more information on a specific subject, collaborate with my peers, receive feedback on marketing tactics, business techniques, products or even a particular service, become part of a community and of course... to market myself.

With the last benefit - marketing myself, I have always done this without actually marketing at all but rather adding quality substance to the forum community. When you become an outstanding member of a forum community, treat other members with the respect they deserve and add valuable content to the forum itself with quality posts, you become marketable without even trying. This is the correct way to do it.

So if there are right ways to market yourself via forums, there are also wrong ways. With that, I give you 6 ways NOT to market yourself on forums.