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5 Free Methods to Drive Traffic to Your Website
Traffic is the most important thing an online network marketer must understand and utilize to be successful with their sites. If nobody sees your terrific offer, nobody will buy it! And, you must have a continuous flow of targeted traffic to earn a substantial income online. There are numerous effective ways to drive traffic to your site and most of them cost money. BUT…there are also a lot of free methods you can use to drive traffic to your website. Here are 5 of them.
The five methods listed here are proven to achieve results. Just remember that, unlike when you purchase advertising, they require time and hard work to implement properly. There’s a trade-off!
Five Free Traffic Generation Methods
1. Make sure your website is optimized for search engines as far as possible. Any traffic you achieve from search engines is always free. To have your website optimized, ensure that the website contains articles with a lot of keywords. When you write articles for your website, about 400-900 words, you can generate a lot of visits more often. Be sure to include catchy titles to entice visitors to read them. However, this may not likely generate the traffic you have always wanted, this could be your first step in making your website successful. In addition, you could always submit all your articles to article directories and contact publishers if they wish to use your articles on either their mailing list or website. Have your articles contain heavy keywords so that they may also appear on top of most search engine results.
2. Join link exchange programs. Nowadays, there are a lot of webmasters who invite other webmasters to take part in link exchange programs. When someone’s website is linked to yours, you’ll have the chance of being visited by people who visit those websites. To do this, you can look out for websites that are similarly related to yours and allow the owners of these websites to exchange links. Make use of an anchor text for the link as it will aid your search engine rankings.
3. Allow joint ventures. Joint ventures could be very powerful if done in the right way. Give your partners some really good reasons why they should promote your site. By providing them with the right promotional tools such as e-mails, signatures, articles, etc., he/she would no doubt accept your request. To ensure that your website gets better results, look for website owners that have the capability of sending a lot of traffic to you.
4. Join online groups, forums, etc. that could help you with promoting your website. For example, you may post your sites URL in your signature file for the users to see. So you can be a known member by the discussion groups you join, simply participate in discussions that interest you and contribute your knowledge and expertise to the rest of the members.
5. Get a free blog. Blogging is another free method that generates traffic to your website. Post some high-quality information regularly and don’t forget to ping all your posts as it can help in driving traffic to your website.
Norbert Orlewicz Discussing Lead Generation with MLM Lead System Pro
Norbert Orlewicz, one of the co-founders of MyLeadSystemPro (formerly MLM Lead System Pro) discusses how to generate targeted home based business leads to your network marketing business HERE.
Managing Information Overload for IM Beginners
Written by Kenneth Koh, LeadsLeap. I have gone to hundreds of these types of sites but still not making money. I downloaded these free ebooks and bonuses but then what do I do with them? Frustrated.”
This is a support ticket I received last week. Does this situation sound familiar to you? I’m sure it happened to you when you were a newbie.
For those of you who are still going through this phase of internet marketing, I’m going to share with you my advice on managing information overload.
Did you notice that I said “this phase” of internet marketing?
Yes, it’s a phase that every newbie will go through. Some survived through this phase. Some are defeated.
Ok, here are my tips on managing information overload:
1) Information Overload Is Good!
Always tell yourself that “information overload is good”.
You see, the truth is, there are only two things that separate you from getting what you want.
The first thing is INFORMATION. The second is ACTION.
So if you are overwhelmed with information, you should be thankful, not frustrated.
2) Get Your Feet Wet
With an overload of information, what you need to do is to TAKE ACTION.
As the old saying goes, you can’t learn to swim without getting your feet wet.
Information will forever be overloading unless you INTERNALIZE the information. And the only way to internalize information is to use it repeatedly.
If you don’t have a website, start one. If you haven’t started promoting any program, start promoting one. You’ll face challenges as you go along. This is when you dig out those pieces of information in your harddisk and see how to put them into practice. In other words, this is when you start internalizing the information.
You will waste some time. You will lose some money. These are just part of the process of getting your feet wet.
3) Mind Your Own Business
The more information you internalize, the more savvy you become. Eventually you will reach a stage when you start to “mind your own business”.
When you start minding your own business, you’ll begin to know how to filter information.
Imagine you being a train station where loads and loads of cargo (information) will reach your station. When you are new, you tend to take in all the cargo because you think they are all important and relevant. But as you start minding your own business, you’ll be selective and take in cargo that can help you grow your business.
As I said, information overload is GOOD. Imagine you being a train station with no cargo train passing by….. (Did you know that all successful people in the world convert themselves into a power train station. They want more trains to pass by so that they can have more selections.)
Note: Newbies can’t start minding their own business from day one. They have to go through the ‘information overload’ phase and the ‘getting your feet wet’ phase. Reason: they have too little information and experience to decide what their own business is. So if you are a newbie, get your feet wet first.
4) Always Take An Inventory Of What You Know / Have
My last advice for managing information overload is to make it a habit to take an inventory of what you already know or have.
If you understand how the universe works, you’ll know that everything happens for a reason and is intended to help you achieve what you want.
At any point of time if you feel lost, always look around you and see what is it that you know or have that can help you to move on. You’ll be surprised that the last piece of information you need is right there with you.
Again, that shows that information overload is good.
Opt in MLM Leads – What Are They Really Good For?
Email marketing can still be a very effective means for MLM lead generation providing you are dealing with a reputable leads retailer. Opt in MLM Leads are great for sending out small targeted email campaigns and scrubbing the “Opt in” list against your very own company specific lead capture page.
The term Opt in means that the prospect has filled out a form on a website and have agreed to receive offers via about a home based business via email. It’s important to make sure that you receive an IP address and time stamp for any opt in MLM leads you decide to purchase. If you can’t get this important information from the lead retailer then you should deal with a different outfit because the leads are probably not legitimate.
You’ll need an autoresponder such as Aweber.Com in order to load your lists of opt in MLM leads. Many autoresponders will limit the amount of opt in MLM leads you can add to the autoresponder daily. Because most autoresponders will limit the amount of leads you can upload often you can only load 2500 – 5000 per day. If you have a decent number of leads you can supply yourself an extremely steady trickle of fresh real time leads for your opportunity on a daily basis.
For campaigns like this I think it’s wise to start small and slowly build up as you start to generate a response and some profit from your efforts. The larger scale of email campaigns you run the greater risk of receiving Spam complaints you have. Make sure when you are sending out emails you are not using a deceiving subject line and that you have included your contact information and your physical address within the email. You’ll also need to include a removal link so the prospects can unsubscribe from your list at any time. Most autoresponders will provide all this information for you as well as they want to make sure your mailings remain Can-Spam compliant.
When you have loaded your list of opt in MLM leads into your autoresponder it will begin sending out the series of follow-up messages you had either written yourself or grabbed from your team websites and entered into the autoresponder. It’s important that you make sure you have a link to your company specific lead capture page in your email series that is being delivered to the Opt in MLM Leads.
What we are trying to do is essentially “Scrub” the list of Opt in MLM leads against our company specific lead capture page knowing that only the people that are interested in our opportunity will fill out our lead capture form. This leaves you with real time red hot prospects and often for under $1.00 a piece if you can get a good price on the leads. The opt in MLM leads that didn’t reply or were not deliverable you can either save and market to at a later date or simply discard them and get a new list.
In your search for Opt in MLM leads you’ll probably come across vendors selling “double” opt in MLM leads. These are leads that have submitted their information to a lead capture page and then actually confirmed their email address and subscription by clicking a verification link within an email they are sent immediately after their form submission. These are very good quality leads but can also be very pricey for just a simple autoresponder campaign.
Small lists between 10K and 20K will usually work quite well providing the leads are relatively fresh and you have your email advertisement leading to a well designed lead capture page. This simple strategy could easily generate someone 5 – 20 or even more real time leads everyday.
Written by Carl Sorensen, the owner of http://www.ezleadcapture.com. He is a Google Adwords lead generation professional and also has developed a complete lead capture page solution for marketers looking to generate their own real time leads online.
5 Reasons Why You Should Generate Your Own MLM & Network Marketing Leads.
A supply of fresh targeted leads who are anxious to get started in a home based business opportunity.
The lead vendors know this little fact too and they can see you coming a mile away!
This can pose a problem for all but the super savvy network marketers and people with extra-ordinary telephone skills. Let’s face it… Not everybody has the telephone skills of an MLM superstar… Wouldn’t it be nice if you could custom tailor your leads?
Here are 5 of the most popular reasons you may want to consider generating your own mlm or network marketing leads.
1. Quality – When you purchase leads from a leads vendor you are buying a list of names and contact details that has been generated in a very generic way as to maximize the response rate of the lead generators advertising campaign. These leads aren’t necessarily generated from the most targeted means of advertising. They are presented with a very simple generic lead capture page selling them on the benefits of owning a home based business such as time freedom, more money, less stress etc… Not necessarily selling them on any specific type of home based business. When you are phoning this type of lead you really don’t know what type of business they may be interested in… you’re left to sorting and this can be a time consuming procedure. Generating your own leads with a website you have control over changes the game.
2. Responsive – Leads that you have generated on your own are usually much more responsive than leads that you would have purchased from a leads vendor. Most likely they haven’t been contacted by several different network marketers and their name hasn’t been sold over and over again by some of the leads vendors out there. Leads that you generate are Real-Time – As fresh as you can get and they are exclusive to you (providing the prospect hasn’t submitted to other websites). By simply controlling the advertising message displayed on your lead capture page you can custom tailor the leads you’ll be generating to your specific product or opportunity.
3. Real-Time Leads - One of the most popular reasons for a network marketer to generate their own leads is that you can receive them in real-time. This is especially powerful for people who are in the higher ticket business opportunities and they need the highest quality lead they can get. Nothing and I’ll say that again… NOTHING Beats having company specific real-time leads in your inbox waiting to be contacted about your product or opportunity. When you run a large successful advertising campaign you can literally sit at your computer and watch the fresh real-time leads roll in waiting to be contacted by you and your team.
4. Custom Surveys - When you are the lead generator you have full control over the questions you want to ask your prospects. This can be a very effective way to do some of that dreaded “sorting” that many network marketers hate doing. You can simply qualify or disqualify leads based on the questions they have answered on your lead capture page. *Tip* It is a wise idea to always run a “Comments Or Questions” or “Tell Me About Yourself” form field on your lead capture page. Not every single prospect will fill these fields out but when they do it will be the most valuable piece of information you receive next to their name and number. Anything a prospect is willing to share with you before the initial contact can be your saving grace when it comes to breaking the ice.
5. Cost - That’s right… Generating your own leads can actually save you a lot of money if you spend the time to setup some solid advertising campaigns. You’ll no longer be paying the middle man or any commissions that so many leads vendors like to attach their lead plans. Like many leads companies on the web you won’t have the high cost of employees either. Your cost to generate your own leads will be your advertising costs and any other tools you may be using such as lead capture pages and/or autoresponders. When you are generating leads of the highest quality and you have semi-decent skills at speaking with them you will need less of them to enroll a new business associate. This saves you time and saves you money. Both are very valuable in the fast paced world of network marketing and MLM.
These are just a few reasons you may want to consider learning a little more about generating your own leads for your specific product or opportunity. It could make a difference in how effectively you market your program.
This Article was written by Carl Sorensen, the owner of http://www.ezleadcapture.com He provides a valuable service to network marketers or direct sales people who are looking to generate their own leads via online or offline advertising. You’ll need lead capture pages if you plan on generating any leads and Carl has your solution.
