Today’s question comes from Leroy N.. He asked:“My biggest question is how do you start your business with little money? I have a website and now I need traffic. I’ve heard about Join Venturing to get started but I’m not sure if that’s best. Help!”Good question Leroy.
Most people who want to work at home for themselves do so because they don’t feel they have enough money with their “real” jobs. So, you start out in a “catch 22? right from the beginning! But it doesn’t have to be that way! The truth of it is that you NEED traffic coming to your website on a regular basis or your business will die - period! But, without money how do you get traffic?
Well, I’ll be honest up front and let you know that you CAN send traffic to your business for little or no money but it will often take MORE work than the pay methods. So, the choice is up to you - work for FREE traffic or pay for QUICK traffic?
Today we’ll focus on FREE traffic because that is the question Leroy asked. When it comes to FREE traffic sources you will find a million of them on Google or whatever search engine you choose. But, that’s not what you wanted to hear. You want specifc suggestions on how to grow your business for FREE.
Todd Wesley is a top internet marketer and has grown
MLM Lead Generation where he teaches others to start and grow their MLM business the right way.
So, here it goes.If I was in Leroy’s situation I would use the following two sources for traffic in priority order:
1. Forum Postings - This is by far my FAVORITE and BEST secret for driving traffic for little or no money to my website. First of all, what is a forum? Well, it is a place where people go to talk about the niche you are promoting. In other words, it has your MOST TARGETED audience all in one place! You have people who are interested in what you are selling at your fingertips! So, your first step is to go to a search engine and type in “YOUR NICHE forum”. Obviously you replace YOUR NICHE with your chosen NICHE such as “work from home”, “boating” or “golf”. Your goal is to find at least FIVE forums for you to post in on a regular basis.Now, go to the forums and register.
But, make sure that when you are registering you put YOUR WEBSITE URL in the bottom of your signature. And, to make it even more appealing add a phrase:Want to learn the golf secrets that will save you 10 strokes this weekend?
Go to: http://www.mygolfwebsite.com
Now, every time you post at this website you are also creating an advertisment to your website. You are getting FREE traffic that is also QUICK traffic so it solves both problems.A couple of warnings. First of all DO NOT SPAM! In forum posting circles it is considered SPAM when you don’t provide anything of value in your post. Remember, if you are just going there to put a one word post and a 20 word advertisement then you will fail. But, if you add value by providing an answer to a question then you will gain respect and thus visitors. Your goal is to post ONCE to each of your FIVE forums on a daily basis. That’s 150 posts in a month. And, if you truly due that you will have an advertisement that keeps on giving, and giving and giving. PLUS, post forums get spidered by Google and other search engines VERY quickly which means your website name will start to appear in the search engines quicker than you ever could imagine!Start posting now and you WILL get targeted and quick traffic to your website - guaranteed. Does 150 a month sound like a lot? Then you probably aren’t serious about growing your business for free. Remember, the rich do what the poor will not!
2. Article submission - the second part of your FREE traffic strategy is to write an article on your subject and submit it to one of several thousand article directories. The best part is that you can do this for FREE by searching for “Article Directory” in Google. When you find at least 25 to choose from you have a good start. One directory I recommond you use on a regular basis is:http://www.ideamarketers.comThis website has a high page rank and a regular audience so your article is more likely to get viewed quickly. So, what do you say in your article? Well, you first have to create valuable content. It could be a few paragraphs from your website about lowering your golf score (if that’s your niche) or the three steps to golfing success, etc. The point is that your reader has to gain enough value from it that they deem you as an expert. Then, somewhere in the signature of your article you need to create a link to your website where they can go for more information.
The beauty of article distribution is that it lives FOREVER in the search engines. So, like forum postings, you have an advertising piece that goes on, and on and on! Continually promoting your website.
The downside to this method is that you actually have to write something and it will take a little longer to build an audience but the long term benefits are far worth it! If you are serious you need to create and submit two articles a week for the rest of your career!
So there you go. My top two strategies for creating FREE traffic. These WORK and I use them even to this day. I hope this has helped you in some way and I want you to keep your questions coming to: Todd@MLMLeadFormula.com
Todd Wesley is a top internet marketer and has grown
MLM Lead Generation where he teaches others to start and grow their MLM business the right way.
