Free Traffic Tips

Targeting more affluent clientele, and cutting to the chase.

Giving a lot of great, free information, from your blog or newsletter is great for a certain crowd at a certain time for a certain amount of time. If you’re making a name for yourself, or building a resource site that will direct traffic to your mini-sites, that’s wonderful.

But there’s going to come a time when you’ll notice that people want to give you their money in the interests of getting just the what they need to know, without the extra fluff.

They don’t have time for free.

They don’t have time for free.

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Noticing what you do online. Look at your own buying habits, and then sell to people like you.

Here’s a few marketing insights I had into myself today.

1. Once I’m done working, every Friday, without fail, I look in my “save em” folder and buy all the stuff I was interested in this week, then go to the Warriors forum and randomly buy stuff. I must blow through 10% of the profits I make each week just buying stuff.
2. Even online, I’m a name brand person. I saw something for sale in a signature line, and the author was Allen Says. I didn’t look at the address to see if it was a reseller, an affiliate or what. I just went to the sales page, did a search for the $ sign, and bought it. I probably won’t read it for three weeks, despite how urgent I thought was to have it right that instant.
3. I love membership sites. I am a paid member of about 100 sites. I visit maybe three of them a week. But I don’t like cancelling subscriptions unless the content and downloads are really crappy. I look at it in terms of how much money I save by having access. Plus, I like to belong to stuff.

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Last year, for some reason, I completely forgot to share my Favorite Post of the Year from 2005.

It was this post by Willie Crawford, Resentment and Civility in internet marketing. Here’s a quote:

Visit any busy Internet marketing discussion board
and you’ll often find dozens of such people who seem
to thrive on being as mean-spirited and negative as
possible.

If you get any volume of email you’re bound to
sometimes get emails saying things that people are
VERY unlikely to say to you in person.

It’s as if being behind the computer screen and
communicating via long distance changes the rules of
how we have all been taught to politely interact with
each other.

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. internet marketing is one of the hardest areas to get your start in online, and I’m happy that I got established in another area first. Technically I’m not really part of the Internet Marketing crowd – this site is more geared towards people who already have businesses offline, or are getting started in some non-marketing area.

However, internet affiliate marketing is where I cut my teeth. I have been blessed in my endeavors there for one reason: The Internet Warriors Forum run by Allen Says. To officially be a part of the forum is $25 a month. And there hasn’t ever been a month where the expense hasn’t made up for it. I haven’t had the time to dedicate to the incredible tools that come with it, but I’m happy to pay for the privilege of just using the forum itself.

So how does that relate to blog of the day?

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