The Marketing Professional

Getting Customers to Your New Online Business

by TheMarketingProfessional

Congratulations, you have your website or blog set up and it’s time to start promoting what you have to offer. You know that in order for your site or blog to be successful you must generate traffic and the more visitors to your site that you have that means more sales and more money for you and your affiliates.

There are many ways to generate website traffic:

Pay per click is an example of paid traffic method.

But for a new internet marketer with limited budget often paid methods are simply not feasible. So you should think about getting free website traffic.

One of my favorite methods is to use a Click Thru Marketing Service like GoneClicking.com

You should also submit your website to directories like: Yahoo, MSN, and Google. Make sure you submit your site in the correct section of your niche. Write articles and submit them to article directories with your site link in resource box. When more and more websites publish your articles, you will get as many back links and the visitors of that site may click on the link and come to your site.

Try getting back links from authority sites in your niche. Back links means that your market place is giving you a vote of acceptance. When authority sites accept you, you will enjoy high rankings in the search engines.

Join forums in your niches and make some valuable comments and use your website link as your signature line. Before doing this make sure you read their rules and that you are allowed to do that otherwise you will be removed from the forum. Another advantage of visiting these forums is that you will know the pulse of your target market.

Once you have visitors at your site or blog make sure you capture their name and email address using an opt in form. There are many types of forms available. Also keep in mind that a visitor may not buy from you on their first visit. Once you have his or her contact details, you can make offers that may be of interest to them. You can automate this process by using a reputable auto responder. Currently I am using Aweber.

This has been a basic tutorial to compliment the previous post on article marketing, leave me a comment on what has worked well for you or if you have another marketing related question.

Always to Your Success,

The Marketing Professional

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How to Use Forums Properly To Increase Your Success

by TheMarketingProfessional

Becoming a member of a forum can be a powerful and profitable way to promote your website or blog however, care must be taken to not cross the line when promoting within forums because there are unwritten rules one must abide by in order not to get kicked out for blatantly spamming.

First things first, promoting your website or blog in other peoples’ forums is allowed in most forums as long as you dont spam every forum you are affiliated with. When done appropriately, it is subtle and tasetul in fact, the forum owners get an added benefit of a more active membership base.

Do not start a new forum thread by blatantly promoting your website or blog. Moderators will quickly suspend your account and if this happens a few times you will probably lose your membership.

Now that you know a little bit about what not to do, what can you do?

If your site is very closely related to the forum then you should be able to announce a new product or service within the forum. If in doubt, mention it first in an existing thread and see if anyone minds you opening a new thread related to your new product or service.

Look for people asking questions and in need of some help in reference to your site or your experience so you can provide some value for them.

Many forums allow you to use a signature, often called a sig file in which you can mention your site name. You could also mention your url as part of your forum nickname. If you post often enough you may gain notoriety and become seen as an “expert”, then it’s likely that people will want to read more about what you say and that’s when your signature file become more valuable.

To Your Forum Posting Success,

The Marketing Professional

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