Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Traffic Generation - Planning to Get Web Site Traffic - Part I

You are facing these 3 main challenges in your online business right now!

- How to make money online
- How to build a list
- How to get traffic

All you need to get going and start making money right away is an idea, an affiliate program or two, and maybe a product or a website. Right?

First, change your thinking…fast! It's time to focus on the right priority or you will be filled with anxiety every month, wondering if you have enough cash to cover your advertising expenses, never mind the value of your time.

Second, start planning! You need to plan how to:

- Generate QUALITY traffic
- Build a list FAST
- Create PROFITS online

It's only when you have a written checklist that includes activities to cover all three of these steps weekly do you have the beginning of the plan. Without the first step, getting QUALITY traffic, the other two really don't matter. So, avoid those offers of cheap traffic we all get and start implementing a schedule of weekly activity to generate quality web site traffic.

Third, learn how to get the four best sources of free quality traffic generation. I learned about these four sources from my mentor and now you can too! Learn how you can build traffic too through:

Article Marketing: You can write articles of interest and real value to your target audience that include a link to your web site by submitting your articles to various article directories. It takes no cash, just time.

Joint Ventures: You can develop relationships with other marketers by sending their offer to your list and asking them to send your offer to their list…but first, you need a list. I can help!

Press Releases: You can write announcements about your newest product, e-book, or marketing venture and submit it to a variety of press release distributors. It's not so much advertising as it is an announcement first and foremost…but first you need something to announce - use your imagination.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Don't sweat bullets about SEO. You can learn the basics of sales copywriting. Simply, focus on creating web page content for eyeballs and you will learn to place your keywords strategically to satisfy the search engines. Then, create links to your web pages from other quality sites such as e-article sites. You need your own website contact information capture page, plain and simple, if you want to generate quality web site traffic from links.

Don't continue to jump on every new bandwagon that comes along every few days. Until you get a written plan and weekly checklist for web site traffic generation, you are limiting your possibilities to create profits online.

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Saturday, August 18, 2007

How to Create Opt-in Email Lists from Your WebSite Traffic Fast

I get asked over and over again why it is necessary to have an opt-in email list to make money online? You probably have asked that question yourself.

After all, you really are just starting out, and you really need to get some sales quick, so you just grabbed a few affiliate products and started driving traffic to them as much as you could, right? How is that working for you?

Not so good, after all - having trouble getting stats, PPC traffic is too expensive for you, free traffic is not buying much if anything - so what do you do?

What are the problems of not having an opt-in list?

- Affiliate program owner gets all the names
- You have no easy way to follow up even if they share the buyers names with you
- Most ad visitors do not buy, at least on first visit
- Cannot generate enough traffic to make enough sales

So what do you do? Learn how to capture your visitors contact information the first time they visit.

1) Get an auto responder account - I use and recommend Aweber.
2) Create a squeeze page - sole purpose is to collect contact info
3) Create a series of valuable content emails for your email campaign
4) Add in affiliate products or your own products to your email campaign

Your sole purpose with this strategy is to collect contact information from your site visitors, build a trust relationship, and eventually profit from them at a greater rate than if you had sent them directly to your own sales or affiliate sales page directly.


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