Getting More Targeted Traffic To Your OFFLINE Businesses Is An Online Activity Too!

©2010 Doug Champigny, Offline Businesses Blog – All Rights Reserved Worldwide.

Between search engine optimization (seo), social media marketing, article marketing, blogging, e-mail marketing, backlink building and a raft of other online promotional strategies, there’s an awful lot of focus online on how to get more traffic to your website or blog – but what about driving targeted traffic to offline businesses? That too is an online marketing task that a growing number of offline businesses are just waking up to.

Just like an online business, offline businesses are dependent for their survival on thriving traffic levels – often referred to as ‘footfalls’ in the offline world. Traditionally they’ve used a media marketing mix to achieve this, and in the offline advertising world the rule of thumb was always that it took 8% of gross income invested in advertising to maintain market share, 12% for growth. Of course these were ballpark figures based mostly on retail advertising but while some industries vary from that norm it’s pretty accurate in most instances for most industries.

But with advertising results dwindling quickly from traditional advertising strategies, what’s an offline business to do? They’re agency will tell them they need to spend whatever additional amount is required to achieve their former levels and that the online other alternative is to leave offline businesses twisting in the wind with sales decreasing in step with their diminishing advertising results.

In actual fact, nothing could be further from the truth – these companies should be cutting their traditional media buys by the same percentage that results are dropping, and investing half that savings into online marketing. Why only half? Because online advertising is MUCH MORE COST EFFECTIVE than any traditional offline media. Most of the traffic generation strategies used online are free, including all of the techniques mentioned at the start of this article, and paid options like CPA, PPC, banner ads and text ads are not only much less expensive but also much more heavily targeted to results. After all, ever tried getting a newspaper or TV station to only charge you based on the number of visitors the ad sent to your website, or the number of footfalls produced?

Even learning HOW to market your business online is much less expensive – high-quality products like Local Internet Marketing Empire, Social Site Matrix and Advanced Marketing On Twitter can each provide powerful online traffic for your business, traffic you then turn into footfalls using your blog and website. Using online coupons, online-only discounts or e-mail flyers are all good ways to track the actual physical offline effect of your online activities, so be sure to keep track of which social media and which online promotional strategies are working best for you.

Whether you outsource your online marketing or train in-house employees to handle your social media marketing and other online promotions is entirely up to you, but I’ll offer one piece of advice: online marketing, social media marketing and especially local Internet marketing aren’t going away – in fact most believe it’s just getting started in spite of phenomenal jumps in usage year after year already. And neither offline ad agencies nor website design companies are experts in online promotion, no matter what they tell you to the contrary.

Anyone who remembers the dotcom bubble burst knows that big, fancy, glossy web sites simply don’t work – they’re nothing more than very expensive ‘sparklies’ for companies that have huge advertising budgets to try and drive traffic to them. And if you think I’m kidding, when did you last see a Fortune 500 company or major brand name come up in a search at the search engines? That’s right – every day these multi-million-dollar websites are blown out of the water by effectively marketed little sites that cost a few hundred dollars at most. So train a couple of loyal employees in the art of online promotion, or learn it yourself if you’re an offline entrepreneur. No other marketing activity has as much upside for so little investment of time and effort on your part, and NONE can be done as cheaply – just look at the prices of those training materials above for all the proof you need!

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New Website Traffic and Blog Traffic Resources Uploaded

In the past 7 – 10 days I’ve stayed busy getting new programs, resources and tools online in most of the various areas of Internet marketing, Affiliate marketing and e-mail marketing/List Building, so I thought I’d better stop by the traffic blog and give you guys and gals an update in case you’re not subscribed to our e-zine…

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This 6-part video series isn’t just another one of those videos that leaves you in the dark – you get to watch over the shoulder from start to finish from someone who actually uses Facebook Ads. This is not just another how to ‘theory’-based tutorial. It’s taken from a real person!

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Once you understand the process and how to utilize social media networks to their fullest extent you’ll be able to apply the system to any new social media sites that come up in the future. This is an invaluable video series for anyone looking to generate or increase traffic flow to their site.

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Four Great Traffic Building Resources…

So there you have it – 4 new training resources to help you build traffic in numerous ways – one on SEO, one on article marketing, one on FaceBook Ads and one on the lesser-known high-quality Web 2.0 sites like Gather, Multiply, Ryze and 6 other hot properties for online traffic generation. Choose the ones that will help you most and grab them now. Or, if you’re looking to become a true Traffic Master, be sure to add all 4 to your learning library today!

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Why 59 New People Started Sending Me Free Traffic Today

© 2010 Doug Champigny. All Rights Reserved.

Tweet Traffic Rush launched on Thursday (2 days ago) and just took off right from the get-go. And no wonder – this incredible new Twitter traffic tool uses a 10-level downline to build your credits virally…

Credits for what, you ask? Take a look at this Tweet Traffic Rush widget:

Not much different from a lot of other WordPress widgets, right? Wrong. The Tweet Traffic Rush widget can be placed on ANY site – blogs, static sites, social media sites, etc. For the first time, your tweets can now be seen outside of blogs and social media sites – they can be put on any static sites too, thus exposing your tweets to people who may not use Twitter, social sites or visit your blog yet.

Benefits Of Using Tweet Traffic Rush:

So how do you benefit from using this free system? First, of course, because your links in your tweets remain clickable, meaning that for each page view you get on any page the widget is on, you get your tweet shown on someone else’s site. This alone has the potential to bring you in more traffic – how much traffic depends on how many credits you earn…

But notice the link at the bottom of the widget? Every time someone clicks through on that and gets their own free account, you get a matching credit for each one they earn. Over time, that can lead to a lot of credits – a lot of chances for people to click on the links in YOUR tweets, creating more traffic to YOUR sites! And this overflow from below you can go up to 10 levels deep over time!

Obviously as a traffic master my results aren’t typical, but look at the action so far today alone:

Now do you see the power of the Tweet Traffic Rush system? And before you think it’s just because we have hundreds of sites and a big opt-in list, take a look at the action in my downline today:

Today I earned 57 credits (top chart) and referred 8 new people to the system (Level 1, bottom chart). But thanks to my downline I also got 5094 more credits, and 51 additional people in my downline – all through other people’s activities.

The result? Just today, I have 5,151 more credits – over 5,000 more exposures for my tweets, and another 59 people who will be earning me more credits every day. You can start to see the potential of Tweet Traffic Rush, especially considering the site just launched 2 days ago…

Don’t miss out on putting this powerful system to work for you too – as you can see from the numbers above, I could stop talking about it now and go on to my next project, secure in the knowledge that my downline has hit critical mass and will keep growing for me completely through the efforts of others.

Like the idea of other people building your Twitter following and your targeted traffic? Then get into Tweet Traffic Rush today!

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New Video & Free Report – Build Traffic and Build Opt-In Lists

Here’s a new video for you from Internet marketing mentor Doug Champigny, showing how to build traffic and build opt-in lists using your affiliate marketing program:

If you don’t already have an affiliate marketing program but DO have one or more products for sale online, I recommend you check out http://www.Hosting4Marketers.com, where you get hosting, unlimited pro autoresponders and your own affiliate marketing program for about $20 a month – well worth it just for the affiliate program alone!

Also, at the end of this video you’ll see mention of a free report called ‘7 Ways to Build Traffic & Build Opt-In Lists For Internet Marketing‘ – download this powerful free traffic-building report now!

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Have you started driving targeted traffic with online video yet? If you have, the results are incredible, aren’t they? If you haven’t, it has to be because you haven’t yet realized it’s rapidly becoming the number one way to build traffic on the Internet today.

The subject of using videos in Internet marketing or affiliate marketing is top-of-mind for me today, since I’m creating a video tutorial on the subject just for my students in the PowerStart Marketing Coaching Program. But while this tutorial is just for them and won’t be available outside of the classes, I still wanted to share some thoughts with you about this powerful form of traffic generation.

First, of course, uploading your marketing videos to sites like YouTube and Viddler can bring you a lot of attention – especially if your video catches the public’s fancy and they start sharing it, embedding it on their blogs and telling friends about it. Some of these ‘viral videos’ have ended up with MILLIONS of views and great response – just think about the branding factor alone!

Second, if you’re an internet marketer with an affiliate program, you can make your videos available to your affiliates to use in their marketing mix, making it easier for them, and you, to make more money online. And nothing motivates affiliates, even super-affiliates, like making money hand-over-fist!

Third, using videos as part of your online marketing efforts can double or triple your response from social sites like Twitter. It’s much easier to get social traffic to click a link to your article, blog post or video than it is to a squeeze page or salespage – unless, of course, the video is on one of those two, in which case you invite them to view the video without saying anything about the page it’s on.

Fourth, videos get you into the video directories, of course – meaning wider exposure for your marketing message. Your site gets you into the search engines like Google, Yahoo & Bing, your articles get you into article directories like EzineArticles and GoArticles, your blog gets you into the blog directories like Tehnorati & MyBlogLog, your audios get you into the podcast directories like iTunes & Podcast Alley, and your videos get you into video directories like YouTube & Viddler. That 5-pronged marketing saturation strategy is part of the PowerStart program, and is the most effective method of driving traffic at the present time – done right even paid advertising would be hard-pressed to match the results!

So the question now isn’t ARE you going to use video as part of your traffic building arsenal, nor even WHEN are you going to start using video – the real question is what’s the fastest way to get up to speed with online video for marketing? HOW do you harness it’s power to build traffic right away?

Two choices I can wholeheartedly recommend: the coaching program, as I’ve already mentioned, and a new monthly ‘done-for-you’ video creation service that creates professional videos for you each month at an extremely affordable rate. But to get these custom marketing videos made for you, you’ll have to act quickly – they’re only opening the doors to the site for four days starting next week.

Jump on this pending opportunity right now by joining the pre-launch information list so that you have the best chance of being one of the lucky ones to get a new video made just for you each month at rock-bottom prices for top-shelf videos. You can check here to see if you’re in time…

And either way, be sure to check out the details of the PowerStart Marketing Coaching Series – video is just one of the ways to drive massive traffic online, and you’ll want to now how to create videos and all the related ways to drive traffic as well!

You KNOW you need video to keep up now – so what’s it going to be? Which way will YOU use video to drive targeted traffic to your sites, blogs, squeeze pages and affiliate marketing links?

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Web 2.0 Beats Search Engines For Faster Internet Marketing Success

©2010 Doug Champigny, http://top-traffic-tips.com. All Rights Reserved.

Internet marketing continues to grow by leaps and bounds, with more and more people turning to it as a means of creating additional income, replacing their full-time jobs or in an attempt to get rich. Concurrently, more and more people are turning to the Internet for their purchasing, so the two growth trends are nicely balanced.

But for someone just starting out with their first online business, it can be difficult to ascertain the proper promotional methods to achieve the quickest success online. Because the industry is evolving so rapidly, much of the available information is outdated or less important now than it was when published even 6 months or a year ago.

For example, until recently the keywords tag on each web page was very important and worth spending a fair bit of time tweaking. With most of the big search engines now skipping that tag, the importance of keywords has more to do with your page titles and domain names than it does with your meta-tags.

Similarly, the amount of time spent tweaking the search engine optimization (SEO) of your site, while still important, is no longer paramount to your Internet marketing efforts. The emergence of the Web 2.0 interactive sites has seriously challenged the search engines as the ultimate way to drive targeted traffic, especially immediate traffic.

Don’t misunderstand – it would be foolhardy to totally ignore the search engines as they drive so much of the traffic online. Do what you can to achieve great results within the search engine ranking pages (SERPs), but don’t spend an inordinate amount of time on it, especially when first launching your site.

Still do your initial keyword research within your niche to choose your domain name, page titles, etc, but then get the site online and start actively promoting it using the power of article directories, podcast directories, video directories, blog posts, Twitter, FaceBook, MySpace, Squidoo, Google knol, HubPages, etc.

Each of these promotional avenues is free to use, so learn to use them both individually and in concert with each other to create almost instant targeted traffic. Traffic from search engines usually takes longer to build, unless you’re purchasing ads on the site which can bring in immediate visitors but can also be extremely expensive in popular niches.

While this formula will probably change again down the road, for the present time your focus for building your traffic and your lists should be on using the Web 2.0 properties for the fastest visibility, and the search engines as part of your long-term strategy. Taken together, this should be your best recipe for success with you Internet marketing!

About The Author…

Doug Champigny is a world-famous Internet marketing coach, mentor and speaker and the creator of the PowerStart Marketing 4-week Internet Marketing Crash Course. To learn more about Doug or to book him to speak at your next event, contact him through his blog at http://DougChampigny.com.

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Affiliate Marketing Strategy: Choosing The Right Traffic Tools

©2009 Doug Champigny. All Rights Reserved.

Affiliate marketing is one of the fastest ways to make money online, and the usual starting point for most work-at-home online businesses. Since the product, web site, sales copy and often even sample e-mails are already created by the merchant, affiliate marketing success simply involves sending enough targeted traffic through your affiliate link to the merchant’s site.

There are paid options to drive targeted traffic, such as the Pay-Per-Click ads you see in the major search engines, ads on web sites and blogs, and solo ads and sponsor ads in e-zines in the niche. But most people starting out with any work-at-home business need to conserve what little investment capital they have, and as such should focus on the myriad of free methods of generating targeted traffic.

The first concern is to decide which traffic tools are right for each affiliate promotion you’re doing. Look over the salespage and decide whether this product or service is short-lived, like a 7-day sale, or liable to be around a long time, like say a dog training guide. Is it a one-time sale, or can you earn recurring commissions as when promoting a monthly membership site or ongoing service?

If it’s short term, focus on the fast traffic generators like Twitter, your e-zine, your blog and social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon or Digg. You want targeted traffic that hits almost instantly, and don’t need to waste time using long-term traffic methods.

If it’s going to be around a while, start by using those same short-term methods to get sales started quickly, then hop over and do some articles, a Squidoo lens and a Google Knol. That gets you the quick traffic from the former, and then keeps some residual targeted traffic going to the page from the latter. If the conversions are good, keep up the short-term til results start to taper off, all the while adding to your long-term efforts. If results aren’t great, let your long-term efforts to date suffice and move on to the next product.

If you’re promoting an affiliate marketing opportunity that pays residual commissions, pull out all stops. Do all of the above, plus record & submit some podcasts, videos and press releases, do either a recorded interview with the site owner or a live teleseminar, use the recording in giveaways, do a few e-zine swaps and maybe even create some viral e-books on the topic to help promote your affiliate links.

In short, there are a lot of ways to drive targeted traffic to your affiliate marketing links for free – just be sure to use the right tools to match the potential returns, start off slow and if you see your affiliate commissions mounting, turn on the afterburners and maximize your return before moving on to your next affiliate marketing opportunity.

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About The Author

Doug Champigny is a well-known Internet marketing mentor, speaker and super-affiliate. For more on affiliate marketing read his Captain Affiliate Affiliate Marketing Training Blog. For more detailed information on 14 ways to drive free targeted traffic to your links, see Doug’s Top Traffic Tips training.

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Hang on to your hats – of all the free info you’ve ever been given regarding how to drive targeted traffic to your web sites, salespages, squeeze pages and affiliate links, nothing will compare to the FREE Top Traffic Tips Simulcast tomorrow night at 9pm Eastern (6pm Pacific)!

Internet marketing ‘big-dogs’ Willie Crawford and Doug Champigny are going to rock the house on the phone and on the web, detailing the 14 different traffic generation techniques they use to each do 6-figures a year online year after year. And best of all, the call is free as long as you register for it on the Top Traffic Tips website, sister site to this blog.

This simulcast, with your choice of teleseminar or webinar, will be your only chance to hear this information for free – the recording and transcript will ONLY be available as a paid product. So be sure to register right now for the call, then be online or on the phone for it tomorrow night, July 2nd, 2009, at 9pm Eastern, 6pm Pacific.

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Last post we talked about how you could get massive free traffic from Twitter by following the steps laid out in the Advanced Twitter Marketing System. Today we’ll look at how you can get more targeted traffic by tying your Twitter marketing into the power of PLR products.

For today’s example we’ll be using the PLR Spectacular bundle that’s just been released, both becuse it’s topical and because the entire bundle is under $20, meaning it’s with reach of everyone trying to generate more traffic.

This PLR bundle is on building your business with social networking, so it’s a bundle every webmaster, traffic developer and affiliate marketer should be reading anyway. For our purposes, it’s the Social Networking report and squeeze page that are important – take those, edit the report to include your name, your URL and your recommended links (i.e. your sites, blogs and affiliate links you’re trying to drive traffic to). If you’re not familiar with the process of converting PLR to your own unique products, follow along with the step-by-step how-to videos on using PLR in the PLR Tutorial videos package.

Put your autoresponder’s opt-in signup code into the included squeeze page, and get it online on any of your sites. You can plug this into your existing e-zine, or start a new opt-in list by using the 5 PLR articles included in the PLR bundle. On the download page for the report you’re giving away, add your links again, inviting people to visit your other sites. And if you’re using the 5 MySpace PLR articles as a new e-course, add a PS under the issues, each inviting them to check out another of your links. For a final 6th issue, thank them for taking the e-course, explain that they’ve come to the end of it, suggest they sign up for another of your lists, and then once again invite them to visit your main site/blog/affiliate link.

Now getting traffic to all of those links is as simple as giving away that free report! Post a tweet offering the free social networking report every few hours on your Twitter account, put a link to it on your FaceBook and MySpace pages, your Squidoo lenses, Hub Pages, Google Knols, etc, and announce the new resource on your blogs.

Everyone likes getting free information online, especially when that information is on one fo the hottest trends online at the moment – and the best of it is that social networking isn’t just huge in the Internet marketing or affiliate marketing arenas, but has become a phenomenon right across the boards, covering every niche you may be trying to drive traffic to!

It doesn’t have to be this particular PLR to use this system, obviously, but you can see why a Social Networking PLR bundle would work best, since it does indeed fit every niche. Otherwise, you’ll have to get PLR from each niche you’re in and set up and promote each one separately, but the aggregate results wil;l be roughly the same. Personally I’d say use the social networking PLR, since all of your promotional efforts would then target ONE resource, and that one resource can drive traffic to EACH niche you’re operating in.

As a related promotional vehicle, here’s a free list-building video that shows a powerful way to use that report to get more signups and thereby more traffic, using a free system you probably haven’t seen before.

Now go get the PLR bundle, get your free download set up, watch the video and set that up too – all the Top Traffic Tips in the world can’t help if you don’t put what you learn into practice!

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I’ve talked a lot so far about using Web 2.0 sites and technolgies to drive traffic to your websites, blogs and affiliate links. Only natural, seeing as how I was chosen as the Web 2.0 Targeted traffic Expert to speak at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas at last year’s Intrnet Marketing SuperConference…

And Web 2.0 traffic generation has improved since then with the phenomenal rise of Twitter – just look at the testimonials on the page for my new Advanced Twitter Marketing System. From Internet marketing gurus like Willie Crawford, Harris Fellman & Peter Parks to complete newbies, every one of those testimonials is from someone who got more targeted traffic from Twitter within the first few days of trying the Advanced Twitter Marketing System!

But be that as it may, I don’t want you to miss out on the old-school traffic generation techniques either… In fact, the old tools to create traffic to a website still work well, and their effect is mltiplied when combined with the new Web 2.0 targeted traffic strategies. For example, there’s a great blog post today from Kenneth Koh on Free Search Engine Traffic, showing the results he got using keyword research, link building and the like.

The beauty of SEO work like that is once it’s done you can just leave it to work, while you apply today’s faster and bigger Web 2.0 strategies – since you’re already getting the search engine traffic, tie the two together. Use Twitter, FaceBook, Weebly, StumbleUpon, MyBlogLog, Google Knol, MySpace etc. to drive traffic to those same sites, and link from those sites to your profiles on the Web 2.0 sites – get your cross-traffic happening and the whole thing just keeps growing exponentially!

And then, of course, throw Twitter into the mix to really skyrocket your results! Don’t go at it haphazardy though – be sure to follow the system I’ve laid out for you in the Advanced Twitter Marketing System. After all, why settle for mediocre results when you can soar?

If you’re serious about making money – BIG money – online, use Kenneth’s advice on SEO & keywords, then follow the steps laid out here and in the Advanced twitter Marketing manual to grow your traffic exponentially. Can you have too much targeted traffic? Only if you think success brings you too much money!

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