There is a misconception that you can come on-line set up a web business and be making $1000s within days. Let be
put that myth to rest right away. This has not been my experience nor
the experience of anyone I have come in contact with through my on-line
endeavours.
You need to give yourself at least a year
to make an on-line business work and budget your money accordingly. Too
many times I see people ploughing a wad of cash into their businesses
and again, expecting instant riches.
New marketers also
make the mistake of thinking that one marketing strategy will do. Of
course some avenues will produce more than others but I have found the
best way is to adapt a broad based approach to your online marketing.
That means spreading your time and resources over several different
methods.
I will attempt to outline in this text
everything I feel you need to be doing consistently to make a success of
your online business.
Again I MUST point out that you
need to persist is this strategy and spend your money wisely. It amazes
me the amount of people who drop out after the first month or two. What
do they expect, miracles? You wouldn't ditch an offline business after a
month so why would you expect an online enterprise to be any different?
If you fail to plan then you plan to fail.
Bottom
line is, targeted visitors = sales. This is definitely a numbers game
and obviously the more targeted visitors you send to your website the
more money you make. The concept is simple but you need to maintain a
healthy focus to ensure that you stick this out for as long as it takes
to make a profit, and progress to financial freedom
on-line.
Here are the methods I use to send daily visitors to my sites:
1) Build Your List
It's
true what they say that the money IS in the list. Most successful on-line marketers have large lists of targeted prospects that they can
send their offers to on a regular basis. Anyone new to this business
should begin to build this list immediately.
You have
to start somewhere and it takes time but it is certainly worth your
while to begin now and develop a lasting and trustful relationship with
those list members who eventually will feel comfortable in purchasing
your recommendations. When trust grows this targeted list will become a
virtual money tree and make you cash at will. Some marketers are able to
makes $1000s sending an email to their list, which takes little more
than a few minutes to write. Can you see the power in this method?
I
use a couple of different methods, on-line forms at all my websites
encouraging prospects to add their name and email addresses plus I also
purchase many of my addresses from other companies that can send me
1000s of emails for affordable prices. These addresses are spam free and
can grow my list a lot quicker than I could ever do from my own
websites.
I have set up some tutorials here for companies that will send you targeted visitors:
http://www.pluginprofitstraining.com/listopt.html
http://www.pluginprofitstraining.com/listmedia.html
2) Pay Per Click search engines.
Over
the years I have used PPCSEs to send 1000s of visitors to my sites.
This is a fast track way to drive traffic to your sites. You can be up
and running and getting hits in minutes.
I use
http://www.overture.com,
http://www.findwhat.com, and
http://www.7search.com. These are three of the most popular but there are many others which you can find here:
http://www.payperclicksearchengines.com/
I
suggest you use Word tracker
(http://www.workathomebiz.info/wordtracker.html) to accumulate as many
TARGETED keywords as you can. The more targeted keywords you collect the
more visitors you get.
The idea is to ensure that you are paying less for visitors on a monthly basis than the sales you make.
3) Google Adwords (
http://www.google.com/ads/)
Google
adwords is similar in principle to PPCSEs in that you pay for your
visitors. I suggest you use Wordtracker
(http://www.workathomebiz.info/wordtracker.html) to accumulate 1000s of
keyword phrases.
4) Article Submissions
Submitting
topical articles is one of the most affordable and at the same time
effective marketing strategies I know of. For more info and the
resources to do this visit here:
http://www.pluginprofitstraining.com/articlesubmissions.html
5) Regular Search Engines
Yahoo,
Google, and MSN send me as many visitors per day as any other strategy I
use. It is highly recommended that you get started immediately to begin
to build the online web presence of your website and thus your search
engine rankings.
I have done this mostly through a
reciprocal linking campaign which has had a greater effect on my search
engine rankings than anything else. I employ the use of Links manager
(http://www.workathomebiz.info/linksmanager.html) to automate my links
campaign for which I pay a monthly fee or you can set up your own links
manager at your own site using Kevin Ocasio's excellent Reciprocal
Manager (
http://www.freeadvertz.com/recipmanager.html).
For affordable search engine submission software try Web Position Gold (
http://www.webpositiongolddownloads.com)
Please note: This is a long term strategy, so it will take at least a few months of persistent action to see any results at all.
6) Forum Posting
One
of the greatest things that happened to me in my on-line career was
being appointed moderator at one on the most popular on-line internet
marketing forums. This has opened up more avenues and opportunities than
any other strategy. I suggest you visit the popular, high traffic on-line forums daily and make it a point of sharing your experiences and
giving your advice as often as possible. Get yourself seen!
The
thing about this method too is that you can have a link pointing to
your site in the signature of each post you make. Posting at forums will
send daily traffic to your site AND the visitors will be highly
targeted.
Here are two high traffic forums that I frequent:
http://www.ablake.net/forum/
http://www.howtocorp.com/forum/
This one isn't high traffic yet but I will be there to answer your questions:
http://www.home-business-tips-newsletter.com/forum/
In conclusion:
I
have been marketing
on-line since 1998 and have tried 100s of different
ways to drive targeted traffic to my websites. The above six strategies
work, so I suggest you print them out and make the methods part of your
daily marketing plan for the foreseeable future.
If they can work for me then they WILL work for you.
I wish you every success in your efforts.
