Massive Traffic

I’ve been looking at the numbers a lot closer lately since working on the Gold version of my free ebook Push Button Profits – $120,000 a year in 30 days on autopilot. Traffic seems to be the number one issue for most online businesspeople. The amount of work necessary to achieve the number of visitors and in turn the number of dollars needed to stay in business is going to take a lot of effort or a lot of cash.

Most people who get into Internet marketing tend to have more time than money. That means writing articles and finding outlets to post free promotional information. The problem for them is both volume and consistency. A business must reach critical mass in terms of traffic and in turn, conversion in order to make enough sales to stay in business.
I’m going to list 24 proven ways to build traffic to your website that will bring you traffic.
The issue is not what they will do for you but what will you do for the traffic. This is about 10 hours of work a week perhaps 20 if you’re serious. I’ll even list the tools needed to get it done.

There will be a lot more detail in the upcoming book Push Button Profits Gold. Ok, here are the 24 legal and proven methods of list building and traffic building for your Internet marketing business:
• Purchase expired domain names that still gets high traffic.
• Use fancy pop-ups and pop-under boxes that help to persuade people to join your list.
• Cultivate joint ventures to promote your squeeze page.
• Interview experts in your niche and promote your interview as a webinar or tele-seminar. Get them to promote the interview to their subscriber lists for added exposure.
• Set up an affiliate program and promote the heck out of it.
• Crate a keyword optimized blog and post your links in your articles.
• Comment on other people’s blogs and leave your signature to your squeeze page or blog.
• Create a training program for others and get them to promote you.
• Post on forums and leave your signature to your squeeze page or blog.
• Create viral videos, games or applications that get passed around on the Web.
• Create how-to videos and post them on file sharing sites as well as video sharing sites.
• Create a really compelling signature for your emails.
• Use Pay Per Click advertising to promote a free report or information about your niche.
• Write articles and submit them to article sites; ad a link to your squeeze page or blog.
• Do ad swaps with other list builders.
• Send out press releases monthly.
• Viral giveaways – free reports or e-books that can be re-branded by others.
• Integration marketing with other partners – you may share links on thank-you pages.
• Ad sharing sites like Traffic Swarm will promote your web page as you surf.
• Ezine ads.
• Create a podcast and promote it regularly.
• Product promotion launches.
• Giveaway joint venture sites – offer a free program or ebook at a giveaway website.
• Direct mail to a target market who have previously purchased a similar niche product.
• You can post your free offer in the local newspaper or circular.

These are the top 25 legal and proven ways to build a big list. If you know of other ways to do it, let me know and I’ll add it to my up-coming book. Your goal should be to have a niche with keyword searches of at least 10,000 searches a month. That will be necessary to gain the type of traffic that will give you 2000 plus visitors a month. We can extract subscribers or customers from that kind of traffic easily. I’ll give you some links to help you in the goal when you subscribe to my free 30 day course.

It is absolutely necessary to the process of business ownership that you stay focused on a goal and fight tooth and nail until you achieve it. Small business is not easy. The point of owning you own business is to make a decent life for yourself. You might not become a millionaire, or jet off to the ski slopes every winter but you have the satisfaction on building your own dream and seeing it come to life and hopefully remain alive and profitable for a long time.
In order for that to happen, you will need to suck it up and do some heavy lifting.
Marketing is one of those big boulders to lift day in and day out. If you make your living on the Internet, you’ll know that it is not as easy as they say. Even if you are paying someone else to do the work, you still are the one in charge, so you had better know what you’re doing.

Internet marketing requires the same dedication to detail, planning and implementation as any other business venture. Lay out a plan and take it to completion; even if you aren’t sure of the outcome. You need to be a problem solver because there will always be problems to deal with in business.

When marketing on the web, make it a priority to know where the market for your product hang out. Find out who they visit and why. Check the obvious sites, and blogs but drill deeper until you find the right people. Don’t be afraid to ask for help.

Small business can be rewarding as long as you know that it will take work and focus to continue to achieve goals.

I’ve been taking a new course on driving traffic using a six to one combo. I’ll explain in later posts. The goal is to show my clients an even quicker more stable way to drive traffic to their websites. I’m on day eight.

As you’re no doubt aware, subscribers are an essential element of a successful blog. They read more, comment more and return to your blog more than more passive visitors do. This means that blogs are excellent vehicles for list building.

Many people are now blogging in an attempt to develop a following and create a steady source of income for themselves. If you are not using efficient list building strategies to get the kind of internet traffic you need, let me give you three tips to get you started.

Do you have a subscriber box at the top on your blog? Where is it located? Is it in a place where everyone can access it easily? Make sure that there is no barrier to them signing up.

If you want to build your subscriber list, you have to think in terms of list building. There is no shortcut to solid marketing principles to bring in the dedicated readers.

Set up a special offer to your readers to get them to subscribe. You may offer them a free book or a program to get them into your opt-in list. Whether you display a banner or text based ad, establish your offer prominently on the page.

Make sure that you display your ads and links prominently in order to gain advantage of you current audience’s interest in what you have to say. Offer people an incentive to sign up for your list and even tell a friend about you.

Even if you don’t have a full fledged website, you should have an offer page for signups. This squeeze page should be dedicated to list building. I can’t emphasize this too often.

Create a banner ad and place it on your blog to advertise your squeeze page. Set up a separate auto responder monitor your list building squeeze page results.

Prominently display your offer when guest blogging as well as linking to other bloggers. If you can get other bloggers to place your banner on their blogs, you’ll be able to do the same for them.

If you go this route be sure to test out different banner ads to see which ones generate the highest response for you. Remembers this… testing and tracking of your results is everything online, it’s the only way of knowing what truly works.

You can offer several bloggers an opportunity to join venture with you on an ad that features all of you blogs. This vertical group ad would be featured on all your blogs and websites. The list building potential is enormous dependent on the number of links participants. You could have a rotating system which would randomly display each participant. Think about it.

Another way to create a co-op vertical banner is to create a form that outputs names and links in a vertical format using actionscript and flash or javascript.

You can enhance your list building by offering an RSS feed. Another way that many successful bloggers build their lists. The RSS feed will allow more people to access your blog conveniently.

Focusing on list building is a great idea but it pays to remember what your goal is. You’re trying to get more traffic to your page in order to achieve a goal. If you can get a link from another site that will give you more traffic to your site then it’s a good link. If you’re trying to get your search engine rankings up to the top of your niche list then you’ll need to secure links with top ranked bloggers.

Either way, I think you can’t go wrong with consistent list building; it’s in your best interest to encourage people to become subscribers.

If you want to build an effective web based business, go to www.doublemyrevenues.com for free coaching and free tools for Internet marketing success.

Boost your business with a local referral network for small business profits.

This is the time to circle the wagons and start taking defensive and offensive measures as a group. If you have a store or individual practice, it might be a good idea to get to know your neighbors a little better. Why not be the one to make the first move and form a local business referral network in order to strengthen the overall quality of leads and improve the conversion rates of prospects?

Build on the relationships you’ve already developed through the years in your community. Look to past customers for new business. You or your sales person can begin to call all of your past clients and start by getting testimonials from them. Once they are willing to give you testimonials, move on to the next step. Tell them that you would like to send their testimonial letter along with an invitation letter to at least 10 referrals of theirs. Tell them that you’ll do the same for them.

In the letter to the customer’s prospects, state that you’ll be calling them to introduce your idea of a business proposition. Tell them that you simply want to keep them in your list of references and that you’d appreciate some promotional information on their business. If they have a need for your services in the future, they will receive preferential treatment for being part of the referral network.

Studies show that more and more people will pick a trusted service before they will gamble on an unknown business with a lower price. What you want to do is develop a relationship with as many people as possible and pass the word around that you are willing to be the hub of a growing referral network.

After you receive the referral letter and the list of names and phone numbers from your client, now you should be ready to make phone calls. The first call will be to your existing clients. You’ve sent them a letter to expect your call. They have your referral letter from someone they know.

Plan your calls. What are you going to say? Here’s an example: “Hi, Bill, Did you get the letter I sent you? Your friend Robert recommended that I contact you to introduce you to our referral network. He felt that your company would make a great fit. Would you mind sending me some information on your company?
This approach throws any company receiving a sales call for a loop. They are given the chance to sell themselves to you. If they do cooperate, you know that you now have a solid contact. Send them regular information on your industry and invite them to contribute to your newsletter. Let them know that you have a wide distribution for your newsletter. Ask them if they know of anyone who should be contacted for the referral network, and that you will appreciate a referral letter to introduce them to the network.

Keep an electronic database to keep track of the referrals and the people who made the referrals. Let your newsletter do the talking and phone all your prospects at least once a month. Find out if they are interested in promoting their services in your newsletter and if the time is right to do business.

Don’t take the telephone for granted. Don’t be afraid to promote your business over the phone. It’s one of your most powerful sales tools. Expensive mass media, like TV and newspapers, can’t match the telephone’s ability to touch prospects and customers in very personal ways. People want and need your product or service. You want to make sure that they know and trust you when the time is right for them to make the decision. Build value into the deal and you won’t have to lower your prices.

People are willing to do business with people who they feel can solve their problems effectively and can be trusted to do it well. Build your relationships and you won’t have to worry about a recession. Contact me if you need more information on building your list of prospects.

Here is the first article marketing video that shows you how to make them.

This video took a relatively short time to complete. I’ll be doing as many

as I can cover to get you noticed and your website profitable.

If you want to build an effective web based business, go to www.doublemyrevenues.com for free coaching and free tools for Internet marketing success.