Showing posts with label Traffic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Traffic. Show all posts

What are the resources to run a social network?

{ Posted on 9:26 PM by Mack }
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Leadership minded people posses the following traits : perfectionism, driven and overachieving. Try to minimize complications by understanding that your goal should be to try to please everyone but at the end of the day you will have missed someone. These variables are reoccurring and as you understand your business and client base better it will be easier to control. An easy way to stay on your path is to review your brand and business plan as needed. Understanding that the foundation will stay the same but you will have to be flexible as outside variables effect your business. This will help gain market insight.

When trying to accomplish goals the focus should be on the most efficient and direct way. Not doing the right research on the right outlet/or method can cause you to waste time and money. Do not get nervous if there is not instant success, it can take some time.

Due to technology and social networking business’s are evolving into relationship enterprises. This evolution is taking place because of how our society shares information. For any business to function it needs to have a competitive product, but it is more important how companies utilize social networking. This is accomplished by a multi-level marketing approach, which methods are different depending on the industry.

To improve visibility industries have to reach new markets. The best way of spreading information is by word of mouth in highly visited social networks. The participants in these networks give your product credibility amongst there peers. Due to the amount of people using social media your visibility can grow exponentially.

The goal is to create communities around your product which builds a strong consumer base, but also helps you better understand your industry and company. By allowing you to collect data that will help you adapt to your clients.

Social networks are a fast and ever changing medium. To be successful companies need to be flexible so they are able to change with there consumer base and not become outdated. Developed methods in social networking can play a vital role in aiding a business and a brands growth. Due your due diligence on your industry, product, social networking platforms, customer base, etc. A lot of ideas have never developed into anything great because it was rushed and not implemented in the right way.

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Top 5 Ways To Get Low Cost traffic to your website

{ Posted on 2:05 AM by Mack }
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There's one single most important thing you need to generate income from your website: Traffic. If people don't visit your site,it won't make you any money. Theres so many websites out there wasting away doing nothing. Sometimes it takes money to maintain an income generating website,but not always,and certainly not a boat load of money. Sometimes it takes money to make money. Again only sometimes.


Ever wonder how the big hitters drive traffic to their site? Most of them are spending a lot of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and all that jazz. The big earners can afford to spend thousands driving traffic to their site because,well,beacuse they're big earners.

But what about the little fish,the people who don't have huge advertising budgets.They have to rely on free or low cost traffic methods. There are many ways to generate low cost website traffic without having to spend what you don’t have or can’t afford. There are a lot of people who spend a lot of money,and lose a lot of money,on traffic generating methods,and still dont get the results.

Here are my top 5 low cost traffic getting strategies:

Exchange Links

This is a great technique and its proven to work. It's very uncommon to visit a website without seeing a link to another website. There are many ywebsite owners who are willing to exchange links with one another so that they can raise more public awareness about their websites. You should soon see and feel the sudden change in traffic coming in to your site from other sites.

A great tip is to to share links with websites that have similar content to your website. It would be pointless exchanging links with a website about cars when your website is about making money online.

Exchanging links also increases your chances of getting a high ranking in search engine results. Search engines rank websites high when they have inbound and outbound theme-related links. Getting a good ranking on the search engines will generate even more traffic without the large cost.

Traffic Exchange

This is similar to exchanging links but on a different, slightly higher level. This can also cost a bit more than exchanging or trading links but could be made cheaper because you can earn credits. You can then use those credits when viewing other peoples traffic, while you earn credits when someone views yours.

Traffic exchange services are basically the viewing of another persons website or page and vice versa. You both benefit from each others efforts to generate traffic. The other sites visitors can go to your pages and know more about your site as well as theirs. Again the public awareness of your websites existence is boosted.

Write and Submit Articles

One of my favourites. HINT: Im doing this one right now. There are many e-zines and article submission sites online which provide free space for articles to be submitted. To save money, you can write articles yourself. There are many sites where you can find other people to do the work for you,this is called outsourcing. For a small fee you can have someone write your articles,but i prefer to write my own.

Your articles should be written so that they match the niche of the site you want to link it to. If you're writing articles as a way to make money, then you want to base you're article on the product or service you're going to link to at the end of the article. Write something that you have expertise on so that when your audience reads it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to go to your website. Write articles that give tips and guidelines to the subject or niche your site has.

Include a resource box (also known as a signature box) at the end of your article that can link them to your site or affiliate page. Write a little about yourself and your site. If you provide a light,info filled, interesting article, they will go to your site for more.

Make a Newsletter.

A lot of people think this is hard work because of all the articles you may need to use to build a newsletter, but it's actually easier than you think. There are many writers and webmasters that are willing to provide free articles and content in exchange for their name on your newsletter. This will also provide free advertising for them as well.

As your newsletter gets passed around, you can broaden your public awareness and build an opt-in list that can regularly visit your site.

Join Online Communities and Forums

Posting on forums requires your time only. You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche with your site.

Just by participating in forums and giving good content,can increase your stature as someone who knows what they are doing.........a leader. This can lead to more traffic and more customers.I participate in forums everyday as it helps to build my brand,and creates more friends and followers,which in turn leads to more customers.

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