Getting Traffic to your website (4)

4.1 - Paid Traffic Methods - A lot of Internet marketers are intimidated by paid traffic. They might have been burned in the past, or they might be afraid of losing a lot of money. This is definitely a concern, so you need to approach paid traffic with a certain amount of caution.

But the fact is, if you do it right, paid traffic doesn't have to cost you a lot of money to test, and once you figure out how to make it profitable (or just breaking even) it isn't actually costing you anything- you put X dollars in and get Y dollars in return.

There are lots of different paid traffic sources so we can't discuss them all in this report, but let's look at a few of the most popular (and effective).

4.2 - Pay Per Click - Pay per click, or PPC, advertising includes sources like Google AdWords and Microsoft adCenter. You pay a certain amount for every person who clicks on your ad and visits your website. That amount can range from a few cents to several dollars, depending on the market and the keywords that you're targeting.

If you're not careful, PPC advertising can chew through a lot of money in a pretty short time so it's important that you approach it correctly.

Make sure you're not targeting really broad keywords that are going to get a ton of clicks but poorly targeted visitors.

Example: You probably wouldn't want to target the keyword "lose weight" because it would cost you a fortune and those visitors could be looking for any number of things when they arrive at your site.
You would be better off targeting the keyword phrase "how to lose 10 pounds in a month" (assuming your website can help solve that problem) because while the amount of traffic wouldn't be nearly as high, those people are looking for a very specific thing.

You should also set your daily budget to something you're comfortable with. That way, if your ads just don't convert for some reason, there's a limit to how much you can lose.

Once you find a keyword/ad combination that is profitable, you can start to expand on it. Being successful with PPC advertising requires a lot of testing and tracking.

4.3 - Banner Ads - People have been saying banner ads are dead for over 10 years, but the fact is they still work if you use them properly. If you just blast a bunch of banners with "punch the monkey" kind of stuff to as many websites as possible, chances are it's not going to be very profitable.

But if you pick the sites where you want to advertise based on how relevant they are to your target market and design your banners effectively, they can still product a lot of traffic for relatively little cost.

Like PPC advertising, start small and track your results. Once you find a banner and/or website that's working for you, start to expand those successful campaigns to other places.

4.4 - Paid Ezine Ads - Paid ezine ads are another "old school" traffic generation strategy that can still work very well. Basically, you're paying for an ad to another marketer's email list. This could be a small ad placed in a longer newsletter or it could be a "solo" ad that is nothing but your offer.

This is a great way to leverage someone else's list to get traffic to your own site (and hopefully onto your email list in the process).

The key here is to target your offer to the audience. Make sure you subscribe to that marketer's list yourself and read several of their emails to see what kind of tone they use, and what sort of offers they promote.

You want to tailor your ad to appeal to the people who receive that person's emails, so make sure you offer something of value and that what you're offering is going to be appealing to the people who get the email.

4.5 - Facebook - Facebook is a fairly new source of paid traffic, and is constantly changing as more and more people start to use it. But with hundreds of millions of users, and the ability to target very specific interests and demographics, you should definitely include it in your paid traffic strategy.

The key to using Facebook effectively is to remember that most people aren't there to be sold to - they're there to be social. Most Facebook users aren't doing business there, even though it might seem that way to us internet marketers, so if you hit them with a high-pressure pitch (paid or not) it's probably not going to go over so well.

Once again, it comes down to building relationships with people first so they know and trust you. Once you establish that trust, you can start to ease them over to your websites and other offers.

Conclusion - Hopefully this article has given you a bit better idea of some of the ways that you can generate traffic to your website, but also what you should be doing with that traffic once it gets there.

New traffic sources constantly come and go, but most of the strategies we've discussed here have stood the test of time. While it never hurts to test new strategies and add them to the mix of what you're doing, don't let yourself get caught up in the latest "shiny object" that promises unlimited traffic with little or no work.

Those kinds of promises are generally too good to be true, and even if they do work as advertised it's usually going to be short lived. Once all the people looking for a magic button start abusing the technique, it won't take long for it to stop working.

If you build your traffic generation strategy on a solid foundation, you'll be seeing more and more visitors coming to your website for years to come.

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Getting Traffic to your Website (3)

3.1 - Off site optimization - Off site optimization really comes down to links pointing to your website. The more links you get, from related sites that also have some power of their own with the search engines, the better your site is going to rank (and the more traffic you'll get as a result).

This is where the short- and long-term strategies start to overlap a bit. If you're using any of the short-term traffic strategies we just discussed to get quick traffic to your sites, they will also help you with SEO in the long term.

The links in your forum signatures, guest blog posts and submitted articles will all help push your site up the search engine rankings so while you might get a short-term jump in traffic when they first go live, they will keep working for you for a long time.

This is why it's a good idea to keep doing those things, even when your site starts to get traction in the search engines. It will continue to drive both instant and longer-term traffic.

3.2 - Social Media - Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are a relatively new way to get traffic, and as a result they tend to be misunderstood. A lot of marketers use them as a kind of "announcement" service, posting links to new offers, affiliate promotions, new blog posts and anything else they want people to visit.

But that's all they ever post, and then they think social media doesn't work because nobody ever clicks through on their links.

The fact is, social media is a longer-term traffic strategy. You need to build relationships with the people you follow before you can expect them to click on any of the links you post.

Example: Think of it in "real world" terms. If you went to a party or some kind of meeting, would you just make a sales pitch to everyone you talk to? Or would you have a conversation first, so you could get to know one another and what you could offer?

Treat social media like you would a "real life" meeting - offer value first and build up some trust with your followers before you start hitting them with a bunch of offers.

3.3 - Relationship Building - Building relationships isn't really a traffic generation method in and of itself, but it applies to virtually every other strategy to some degree. If you build relationships with the visitors to your website, or to the other places you post your content, you're going to be a lot more successful in the long run. 

When you have strong relationships with your visitors, they're a lot more likely to return. And return traffic is one of the keys to a really successful website.

Look at it this way. If you get 100 visitors per day and you have no way of getting them to come back to your site after they click an ad or an affiliate link, you have to find 100 new visitors every day to maintain your results.

But if you get 100 visitors every day and get 10 of them into your "relationship funnel" so they return to the site, you've increased your future traffic without having to find "new" visitors. It's over-simplified, but let's assume that they come back the next day. Now you've got 110 visitors, of which 10 will again become return traffic.

Every day that goes by, you're getting more traffic while you're still only having to generate 100 new visitors. Over time, your traffic will continue to grow even if you don't do any more work to find new people than you already are.

One of the best ways to build these relationships and generate return visitors is with our next traffic strategy - list building.

3.4 - Generating Traffic Through An Email List - One of the biggest advantages of building an email list is that it lets you control your own traffic. If you have a list of people interested in your market, it doesn't matter if Google, Facebook and every other traffic source shuts off tomorrow - you can still generate traffic just by sending out an email to your list. And if you have a brand new page or website that you want to direct traffic to, you can do that as well. You could set up a website in the next half hour, send an email 

to your list and see traffic to your site within a few minutes.

Even when you're paying for traffic, it's pretty tough to get visitors within minutes of finishing a new site.

List building as a traffic strategy is a bit of a Catch-22, however. You won't be able to generate that "on demand" traffic until you've built a list, and to build a list you need to get some traffic from other sources first.

That's why it's important to use all the strategies we're discussing, but get those visitors to subscribe to your email list so you can contact them over and over again in the future. 



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Facebook Marketing

Are you concerned about your future? Would you like to be in a position to help your family through tricky financial times? Do you feel there is more you can do following retirement? Are you feeling worthless now that you have finished work? If so I would recommend that you take a look at Social Media Marketing as a project which could solve all of the above issues and enable you to achieve a valuable level of additional income. I personally experienced the frustration of a lack of something worthwhile to do with my life and in my search for a suitable alternative I came across the possibility of utilising social media as a business that could be run from home. As I was an IT newbie I needed a mentor to guide me through the early stages of setting up my business and my research threw up an exuberant young man, by the name of Paul OMahony. Paul is widely recognised internationally as a foremost expert in Social Media and he is an accomplished  and humourous speaker. He offers clear and unambiguous advice to his students and he is particularly excited by the potential of one platform in particular. Facebook offers massive opportunity for building a business and expanding a customer base. Astute imaging and regular content posting helps to create a high level of trust with your customers which in turn develops into a long lasting relationship with potential for further sales. Because of the vast potential of this area there is no time to lose, the sooner you take the plunge the better because of the rapidly expanding nature of Facebook Marketing..

If the thought of a Social Media business, working from home with hours to suit yourself, appeals to you you could not do better than to take a look at this FREE webinar presented by my mentor and Internationally renowned Social Media expert Paul OMahony 

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Tips to Promote Small Businesses Through Facebook Marketing

Do you want to grow your business digitally?

Do you want to promote your business through social media? The answer is simple- That is Facebook. Facebook is a huge success among a lot of successful entrepreneurs.

About all consumers utilise the Web to scan for local businesses - and the greater part of them are on Facebook. The site is the greatest person to person communication platform on the planet by a long shot, with more than a billion active users.

In the interim, the social media monster is consistently taking off elements to help clients discover small businesses while helping small businesses interface with potential new clients.

A decent Facebook presence can help you connect with your fans and develop your business. Be that as it may, with such a variety of approaches to promote your business on Facebook, it's hard to know where to start.

For successful promotion through Facebook read these steps

Creating your business Page:

Your Facebook Page is your business' homepage on the social networking site. A Page is a great deal like a normal Facebook profile, yet for brands and organisations.

You will interact with Facebook clients through your business' page, so ensure it genuinely mirrors your image. Utilise your business logo as the essential photograph for your Page, and pick a cover photograph that is alluring and exhibits what your business does.

Write catchy phrases to depict your image, and pick a paramount Web address. your brand name must contain after the Facebook domain name.

Sharing Images, Posts & Videos:

It's insufficient just to have a Facebook Page. To get attention from your followers you'll have to make advantageous, good content for your fans.

Clients who like your page will see your posts appear in their fundamental Facebook news feed, so get cracking. You can share updates, photographs, videos, promotions and significantly more.

The best Facebook posts - the ones that drive a great many people to comment, share and like - are short and visual. Search for approaches to add a visual element to your posts, regardless of whether it's a short video cut, a photograph from inside your store, or simply stock art.

Facebook's Page Insights device removes the mystery from sharing. The apparatus, open from your Facebook Page's Admin menu, gives profitable data on supporter action. For instance, it can disclose to you what time the vast majority see your substance so you can arrange your advancements.

Begin making associations:

What great is sharing content if no one sees it? Luckily, Facebook has built-in tools to help you build an online following.

To start with, look at the Build Audience tools found in your Page's Admin menu. You'll discover alternatives to welcome both your Facebook friends and email contacts to follow your Page.

Traditional marketing techniques can help you develop your crowd past your current following. That implies publicizing your Facebook Page's address on signs in your store, on your business card, in messages you send, and on whatever other marketing materials you deliver for your business.

On the off chance that you set aside the opportunity to make a memorable URL for your Page from the begin, it will be easier to promote it in the future.

Draw in your followers:

Then, you can develop your audience of people naturally by making content that your supporters need to share, as and comment on.

The key is to post quality content frequently. That implies sharing updates that are important to your crowd in any event on more than one occasion for every week. For best outcomes, try taking a friendly, conversational tone, and recollect to be brief.

Keep your updates timely, and react specifically to comments and private messages. Making an exchange with your followers will urge them to draw in with your posts later on.

Use friends of fans:

New clients will most probably attempt your business if their friends as of now utilise it. Facebook gives you a chance to use informal chat to promote your item or service.

Remember that when a fan interfaces with your Page, their friends will see the movement in their news feeds.

You can encourage more communication in an assortment of ways. Set up surveys and ask questions on your Facebook Page that fans can't avoid reacting to.

Urge clients to check into your business on Facebook when they visit by offering a little discount for any individual who does. Checking in is an element that permits clients to tell their companions of where they are.

You can likewise make unique occasions and restricted time advancements and welcome your adherents, who can welcome their companions thus.

Consider Facebook advertisements:

Facebook additionally offers traditional advertising alternatives that let you position your custom advertisements in clients' news feeds. The advertisements show up as special posts and direct any individual who clicks straight to your site.

Since Facebook gathers stacks of client information, it can focus on your promotion to clients who are destined to be interested in your item or service.

The stage likewise highlights an investigation device to help you comprehend which promotions drive interest and sales.

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Marketing Online For Business Startups

If an item as lowly as a Figit Spinner can take the Internet by storm in as little as three days and show up in class rooms across the nation a short week later, why can't your business power up and show up?

Let's max out a list of possible marketing options for your business online, within the next ten days and see if we can't send your business to the front page!

Are you ready?

• Facebook Fan Page. Invite your friends.
• Twitter #hashtags. Capture attention with keyword tags.
• LinkedIn Articles. Share with your groups. Tweet it out!
• Pinterest? Oh yes. Share your pictures. Show them off.
• Tumbler. Definitely, tumble out your release.
• Blogger. Share it. Reblog it. Invite friends to post it.
• WordPress. Reposting. News blast. Blog blast. Notify.
• Sumo. Kill it with Sumo, and share it everywhere Sumo goes.
• Yelp. Review it. Post it. Renew it.
• Amazon. Write it. Book it. Create a White Paper. Sell it.
• eBay. Auction block it. Post it. Reuse it.
• StumbleUpOn. Send it out with keyword precision.
• MapIt. Put your address on the map.
• Google it. Make sure you've registered your business with Google.
• Bing it. Register on Bing and show up on the wall.
• Yahoo it. Send it out to Yahoo News. Post it. Update it. Press Release it.
• Snapchat it? Of course, post a picture and meme it.
• WordStream it.
• PPC it.
• Banner ad and Press Release it.
• As your friends to share it. Scare it. Double dare it.
• Sing it. Make it a celebrity.
• YouTube it. Video and Audio share it.
• SlideShare it. Add the slides and words to it.
• Groupon it. Coupons work. Discount it.
• TRY to hide it.
• Secretize it.

I don't know about you, but some of the most exciting, most responsive advertising I've found online is FUN. When you're really having a good time sharing your business on the internet, others want to know what you've got. A great way to market your business online, is to stir up some action.

Food places and coffee shops can invite tribute artists to come in for a visit. Imagine, photos of Elvis seated at the coffee bar with your customers? Or maybe your customers are younger and would prefer Taylor Swift. My favorite recent marketing event was a joint effort with a coffee shop /bookstore where a book signing took place, and we invited local football team members to come by and sign autographs.

Need an event? Find a local celebrity and send out the press releases. Be sure your Social Media is turned on!

Need to put your new business startup on Main Street? Jan Verhoeff knows how to schedule events, attract attention, and drive traffic. Contact her for more great ideas at http://janverhoeff.com

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At times, it is hard to get visitors for your site in the start. The tips given in this article will help you get a few hundred visitors per day without any problem. Getting started with blogging is difficult in the beginning but becomes easy if you keep trying. Read on.

1. Yahoo! Answers

If you do a quick search on Yahoo for SEO, you will get thousands of questions that you can answer. To drive traffic to your blog or site from Yahoo Answers, all you have to do is give helpful answers. Your goal should be to become an authority in your niche. With this technique, you can easily get over 100 visitors and your site will get a lot of exposure.

2. Social Bookmarking

If you can create enjoyable content, one of your posts may go viral or get popular. Actually, your goal is to put your site in front of potential visitors. Another way to do it is social bookmarking. With these sites, you can bookmark your favorite sites for other users to view. And the great thing is that you won't need to spend more than a minute to bookmark your website. Some good social bookmarking websites are Delicious, Reddit, and Digg.

3. Guest Blogging

For free traffic, we suggest that you go for guest blogging. All you have to do is spend a few minutes to write a quality article. You may want to contact the most popular sites in your niche and then ask them for permission to publish an article on their site. The majority of sites will give you the permission happily.

4. Forum Posting

You can find community forums for every niche, topic or industry under the sun. For likeminded people, the internet is the best place. What you need to do is post on the forums for the community members. The majority of forums will let you leave a link back to your site in the signature of your post.

5. Twitter

Whenever you write fresh content, don't forget to Tweet about it. With the help of the right keywords, you can make your tweet interesting and you will get a higher click through rate. Make sure the posts have creative headlines. If the headlines are not catchy, people won't click on it.

6. Facebook

You can create a Facebook fan page in a minute or two. If you are a business owner, make sure you have one. The reason is that 1 out of every 13 people of the world uses Facebook.

7. Blog Commenting

Another way to get a lot of traffic for your site is through blog commenting. As soon as you post a comment, you will get traffic. Make sure that the comments are insightful and are posted as soon as a new post goes live.

8. Article Marketing

You can also promote your website through article directories. As a matter of fact, this is an effective way of getting traffic for your site. You can write quality content and publish it on your sites, such as Article Dashboard and Article Base. However, make sure that the articles are interesting, creative and contain the right keywords.

So, if you want to get traffic for your new site, you may follow these tips.

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10 Proven Ways to Increase Your Facebook Likes

Whether for personal or business purposes, one of the main goals of most Facebook users is to garner more likes and reactions. This article will outline 10 simple ways to increase the amount of likes for any post.

1. Keep Your Page Updated -  It is important to note that keeping your page updated is not synonymous with spamming your Facebook followers. Getting more exposure on social media by posting periodically will result in more likes, reacts and even comments. However, posting too often is quite, frankly, annoying. As a result, your friends will literally like your post less, which translates to Facebook likes too!

2. Filtering -  You can and should choose what you share on Facebook. If you have a Facebook page that you are updating correctly, but the content is lacking, you may still find yourself not reaching your goal of likes. Ask yourself: What is the point of this post? A post will have more of an impact if the meaning behind it is clear to its audience, whether its intention is to be funny, touching or thought-provoking.

3. Add Photos  -  Any post that has a photo attached to it will garner more attention than any solid text post. When deciding to include a photo in your post, choose one that catches the eye of someone scrolling down their newsfeed. While adding a photo will be sure to increase your likes, make sure to include one that is of good quality. If someone stops to look at your eye-catching photo, they will be curious enough to stop, so take this opportunity to share what you will.

4. Factors of Exposure  -  Before posting to Facebook take into account the factors that will affect your Facebook likes. These include trending topics and viral posts. If you want more people to see your posts, it is best to include topics that are currently trending on Facebook so that your post will be seen in that thread. You can take advantage of hot topics like the most recent American election to do this. The mention or recreation of viral posts can also spark an increase in exposure and likes; for example, the popular mannequin challenge.

5. Post Time  -  Time plays a larger role in receiving likes than you may think. Obviously a post at 3 a.m. will result in less likes, but there are less obvious times to be avoided as well. Avoid all times when you know people are occupied with real life social interactions: office hours, happy hour, dinner hours, and morning rush hour. On the other hand, lazy hours, such as Sunday mornings, lunch breaks and late evenings are prime time for garnering likes since people are more likely to be on their phones.

6. Link Your Social Media  -  Facebook is one of many social media platforms out there, and this is something you should use to your advantage. Linking social media is a common practice for people who have found great success on these platforms. For Facebook this means: if you make a post on a different platform, you should also link those followers to your Facebook page. Using posts on different platforms to promote your Facebook page is an opportunity to increase exposure. This will expand your views, and also your amount of likes.

7. Relatable Content  -  If your Facebook page posts content that is relatable, more people will like it just because of this. Additionally, people are likely to tag their friends in these posts because they may know that the person experiences something similar. The surge in the popularity of "memes" in the mainstream media is proof of this.

8. Clickbait  -  While it is looked down upon by the social media community as deceitful, clickbait is not necessarily deceitful. Clickbait, in this sense, is creating a post that piques the curiosity of Facebook users by using ambiguity rather than deceit. For example, instead of saying "I am moving to Mexico to do volunteer work", say "I am making a huge change in my life, please join me on this journey" and let them watch your video for the explanation. This method works most effectively for videos or other content that people don't immediately see.

9. Tags  -  Make use of all the tools social media, in particular Facebook, has provided you. When creating a post, make sure to tag everyone involved or in the picture, so that their friends will see the post too. This will increase the views received by your post, and consequently your likes.

10. Giveaways  -  If you have the means, giveaways attract a lot of attention, and likes. Usually users can have a Facebook like and Facebook share of the post as a condition for entry in the giveaway; this is an effective Facebook marketing strategy. Many companies may also sponsor you if you have a large enough following!

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Your Most Important Launch Tool: Building Your List

Growing your business from scratch each day isn't easy.

Maybe you aren't completely starting over, but if you're working to grow your business online, it sure can feel that way. Every day is a new struggle to build your email list. Each morning you start at zero for the day and work to see how many new subscribers you can get.

It can be frustrating, adding new email subscribers. It's hard work convincing people that you really want to help them, to provide them with terrific content they are going to love. You work hard to write terrific emails and engaging blog posts and yet your subscriber list builds slowly. You feel like the tortoise.

You know this is work you have to do, but boy, isn't it easier to just hop on to your social media account and engage with your fans there? Images, video, fast moving comments - these are the things that pump you up and get your juices flowing. Be careful, this is where you become dangerously close to becoming the hare.

Sure, it's nice to have a massive following on social media. It feels good to know that people respect you, that they enjoy interacting with you, but have you ever considered that these leads, these social media fans you have are not your own?

It's All About Your List: Your Email List

In the world of online marketing, where everything is virtual, all you really have... is your list.

The list of people who love what you're doing, will follow your every word and are likely to buy whatever you sell. If that valuable list of people who love you is only on social media, you are operating at the whim of a company you can't control.

What if you woke up tomorrow and Facebook was gone? How would that affect your business, your client interaction? What if it were Pinterest, or Instagram or Twitter?

Over the past few years we've seen how platforms modify their policies, change their algorithms, and decide to start charging us if we want followers to see our content. This is no way to build your business: at the mercy of someone else's business success.

Whether you have hundreds or thousands of followers on Facebook, Pinterest or Twitter, you eventually need to move them to your email list if you want to be able to market to them. This can be much more difficult than it sounds. It is easy for people to decide to engage with you on social media, there's very little commitment on their part. All they have to do is click a button. They can log in or out at will, they can block you, or they can unfollow you and you'll never even know. Don't let a huge social media following to give you a false feeling of your popularity.

Just yesterday I responded to someone who is launching her product and despite the fact she has thousands of followers on FB who love what she's doing and like her posts, she's unable to get them to buy. That's because social media is for interaction, not sales.

Building Your List is Personal 

Getting into someone's email inbox is much more personal than getting them to "like" or share something you've posted on social media. Instead of your message being one of thousands they scroll through quickly and "like" without reading, now your message is among those of the people they care most about: their family and friends.

Once someone trusts you with their email address, once you begin offering them amazing content as your beloved subscriber, they will tell you they appreciate what you have to say by engaging with you, by buying from you. They are allowing you into their inner circle. Make sure you deserve to be there.

Yes, building an email list is hard. Yes it can be slow, but it is also the very best way to give your business a firm and solid foundation. You may feel like a tortoise, but at least your home moves along with you, it isn't left behind in the interest of the next flashy new thing.

If you want to build an amazing online business, if you want to be able to launch incredible products to the people who most respect and admire you, trust me. Your most important launch tool is your email list.

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Social Engagement Tips You Can Count On

Social media has become one of the most used marketing tools on the internet today. Social media can be good or bad for your business and this is something to remember and live by. Remember while you can generate positive interest, it is just as easy to generate negative results, so you want to focus on your social engagement and ensure that you retain a good online reputation at all ties.

An affordable SEO packages company, has advised that there are five essential tips when it comes to social engagement that companies can rely on to boost their brand visibility, reach a wider audience and ensure that their clients notice them online daily, so that they are the first name they think of when it comes to buying a product or service that their clients provide.

It is essential that you take the time to listen to your customers, both online and offline. Is there certain questions a large percentage of your customers ask about your products? Do your customers look for more information on certain products before making a purchase? What can you add to your clients experience to help them with their choices? Maybe writing an interesting post on social media answering some of the questions is the first step to reaching your audience and new clients on a daily basis.

It is very important that you take note of all the comments that you receive to your social media page, good and bad. Facebook, for example, enables you to have a review button where clients can review your company, you can remove this option, but it will also remove the map of your location. If you choose to keep it on, then ensure that you respond to each and every comment and review, providing a positive answer and assisting the client. Clients will see you are trying to resolve any issues and will feel more confident dealing with your company moving forward.

Ensure you add high quality pictures and make use of informative and how to videos to attract more clients to your social media page. Every affordable SEO package will encourage you to attract more clients to your website and you can do this through social media. People on social media enjoy browsing pictures, reading interesting articles and watching videos. Always ensure the videos and pictures you upload are relevant to your industry and is something your customers will find interesting and hopefully want to share with their contact group.

Make use of promotions, competitions and offers. The more competitions or promotions that you run, the more interest you can create. Getting people to like your page, share the picture and have a chance to win is a great way to generate more interest and have more customers joining your page moving forward.

One of the most interesting things that companies will find helps them increase their social engagement is to ask questions. Ask questions relevant to your industry and give your clients chances to reply. Get a good conversation going and remain in the conversation wherever possible to ensure that your clients always feel that you are there to assist them and are on hand when they need you.

The final thing to be very careful of is to ensure that you respond to each private message that you receive via social media so that your clients can always feel connected. Don't automatically assume interested clients are going to email you directly, many will make use of the social media tools to get in contact, so keep an eye out for this.

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How To Make Money On Your List

This month we're going to start a four month series on how to build your own business using a lead magnet, a squeeze page and Facebook. First we'll start with creating the perfect leads that targets your audience and makes them sign onto your list.

Then we're going to cover exactly how to build a squeeze page or landing page that gets those visitors to say, "YES! Add me to your list NOW!"  In our third installment we're going to cover how to get as much traffic as you want from Facebook.

Once you have learned all three of these skills, you can literally go into any market and create a list building machine in just days.

Better still, you can take it one step further and build a complete product funnel behind your lead magnet, offering a tripwire (low ticket) offer, followed by your main offer, followed by a big ticket item. In fact we are going to cover all of that in month 4 of this series.

First, we better reveal what a lead magnet is. You know those freebies you get for subscribing to a list? Those are lead magnets.  They're something offered as a free gift or enticement in exchange for an email address. And they're the easiest, fastest way to build a list of target subscribers.

Remember this: The goal of any lead magnet is to convert traffic into leads.

While it's true you can throw just about anything together and call it a lead magnet, it's also true that the better (and more targeted) the lead magnet is, the easier it will be to build a profitable list.  A lead magnet doesn't make money by itself. Yet working as your front line ambassador, they can be extremely lucrative.

As you know, there are three ways to grow a business:

· Increase the number of customers

· Increase the average transaction value per customer

· Increase the number of transactions per customer

With the right lead magnet, you can increase the number of prospects and customers you have joining your list.  And with a well-targeted niche, you can also increase the average transaction value and even the number of transactions per customer, by attracting the very best customers for your particular business.  As you go through the following sections, always think of your leads as an irresistible bribe that will offer real value to your prospects.

Your leads has to be so good, your prospects will 'buy' it with their email address.

It should be relevant to your niche and your offers.

It should be ultra-specific in what it gives to the user.

It should be priceless, in that the prospect can't easily Google the information and find it for themselves, or even buy it someplace else.

And it should be easily consumed, because you want the prospect to consume it immediately after they download it.

We'll go through each of these in turn in a moment.

The point to remember right now is this: Your lead magnet is perhaps the single most important piece of your entire marketing system.

The right leads will bring you a never ending stream of new prospects and soon-to-be customers. The wrong leads will bring either the wrong prospects for your offers, or no prospects at all.

Discover how to engage and excite new customers into taking action and spending money with you by using these simple free marketing tips from Nick James, The Internet Business Coach http://www.Nick-James.com

If you have already heard about attraction marketing and know what it is, you already know so much more than many out there using the internet to grow their business. You have a feeling that it's exactly THE strategy for you and the perfect way for you prefer to come across out there, but are not entirely sure as how to get started.

Today we'll give you some tips here on how to get on with it right here, right now. Being an attraction marketer doesn't mean that you should not offer people what you have. On the contrary. It's the WAY you offer your product service or opportunity that is different.

The difference between attraction marketing and ordinary marketing is that you do not "spam" people, stuffing your service or product down their throat. This unfortunately happens all the time on social media and the truth is that NOBODY likes it.

And no one never really has built a long-term successful business that way. No top earner that I know of has built their empire using that method. They ALL used attraction marketing - and so should you.


Your focus is firstly on making relations with your prospects and THEN you start considering whether or not what you have is a good fit for that person. So distinguish between being an advisor or a seller. And distinguish between being intruding and being valuable.

So, let's get started shall we!

STEP 1   First of all you need to take a look at ALL your online profiles. Are they attractive?

Are YOU attractive? Take a look at your different timelines and see if you would be attracted to you. Is it positive, inspiring, fun, motivating, informing? 

Because that's what it should be. And when I say informing I'm not talking about product or company links scattered all over your personal profile. That is you being a seller. People don't like that, especially not new friends you make.

Imagine you add someone as a friend. The first thing they do is to go check out your personal profile. If they find advertising all over the place, they will know why you added them and they'll get out of there as quickly as possible. So first thing first. Your profile must be attractive, inspiring, informative and inviting.

STEP 2  Invest in yourself!  Buy a course on attraction marketing or a course with the strategy you'd like to start implementing. 

It could be a Facebook or an Instagram course. Education is essential!  To get better and being able to advice others you need to study.  Choose only ONE social media platform and become an expert on that. And make sure to keep your focus on that one platform. Also make sure to be active, engaging and interactive with other people on your platform.

STEP 3  Now start sharing some of the valuable content that you have just learned. Some of the tips from the course you are doing. Share, share, share. You can easily make a small cheat-sheet on 5 of the best tips you've just learned, save it as an PDF and share it with people in exchange of their email. Start building your list this way and send out emails to your list with the latest tips and tricks you learn from your course.

Invest, Learn & Teach say's Ray Higdon and you'll find that people will start reaching out TO you instead of YOU running after them.

And when THAT happens it will feel just amazing, believe me!

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