Problogger is doing their blogging tips for the month of August and the tip for August 3rd centered around joining and then participating in forums that are part of your niche. Taking this tip to heart, I typed a search string into Google and a few minutes later, I discovered the v7n Webmaster Forum. This forum contains topics that I’m interested in such as SEO, Blogging, Marketing, Graphic design, ect. Because these topics are directly related to the content that I post regularly on this site, participating in this forum should be a piece of cake.
I’m participating in a forum not only for the extra boost in traffic to this site, but also to create new relationships. Relationships are one of the most powerful tools a blogger can posses as in most times, it’s not what you know, it’s who you know. Using this forum, I can gain a new level of knowledge of the topics I discuss which will help me out when I am suffering from writers block. The forum also provides me an avenue of sharing information that I have learned which is one way in which I can give back to the community.
So do yourself a favor. Look for a forum that relates to what you blog about and participate in it. In the long run, you’ll be glad you did.
If you happen to join this same forum, be sure to look me up as my handle is Jeffro2pt0.
Thoughts and Insanity From Jeff 
That’s funny, I was just speaking with a designer about this same thing–that is, finding some niche forums where he can become the ‘main designer’ and get all of their business.
While designing is different from blogging, the niche forums really help out for both. For him (the designer) he can go into these small forums where the ‘main designer’ already there isn’t nearly as good. Then he can easily take over his position to get a good deal of new cleints.