Jim Edwards here with a "live" video update with my good buddy, Ryan Deiss, with two very important tips for growing your own list…

=> http://IGottaTellYou.com/2-great-list-building-tips.html

I was just at Big Seminar and ran into Ryan while filming some segments for "The Online Business Show" with Mike Stewart.

I put Ryan in the "hot seat" and made him give us a couple of really good tips for builing up niche lists.

 

Have a look and a listen right now

=> http://IGottaTellYou.com/2-great-list-building-tips.html

Talk soon,

Jim

PS – Ryan gives one tip about a shift in "mindset" that I plan to use to revolutionize my list building in 2007

Check it out

=> http://IGottaTellYou.com/2-great-list-building-tips.html

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Jim Edwards here with this week's article (below) on the fastest way to get a ton of traffic…

It comes out in the paper tomorrow, but you get the "scoop" today

Enjoy!

Jim

PS – HEADS-UP!

I've got a VERY important announcement next week about
my "Info-Marketing Boot Camp"… keep your eyes peeled

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Explode Your Sales With Other People's Traffic

      – by Jim Edwards

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Ask virtually any website owner to name their #1 problem and
invariably it comes back to one word – "Traffic!"

How do you get more traffic to your website without breaking
the bank?

Well, the most immediate source for website traffic is
actually quite simple and it's called "OPT" – Other People's
Traffic.

Other people have the targeted website visitors you need
right now – you just need to persuade them to funnel some of
it your way.

Your mission is to find people who can refer you their
traffic either for a flat fee, as a trade for services, for
a commission, or on a pay-per-click basis.

The quickest way to find people to refer traffic is to take
inventory of who you know (and who they know) that runs a
site getting the targeted traffic you need.

Once you exhaust that list, go to the search engines and
search using the keyword phrases that would bring the ideal
prospects to your site.

Make a list of the websites that rank well in those searches
and approach them about a traffic deal.

Try to work all your agreements on a per-sale basis first so
you won't have to pay any cash up front.

They get paid only after a sale is made and you have the
money in your hand.

If they don't want to work a deal on commission, then you
should negotiate a pay-per-click deal.

This means you only pay when a visitor comes to your site.

However, make sure you closely track the visitors coming
from the site so you can spot any funny business (click
fraud) where the owner might try to inflate the actual click
through numbers to increase their commissions.

You have 4 choices for funneling another site's traffic to
yours: endorsed mailings, hover ads, text links, and
banners.

Endorsed mailings are the best way to funnel traffic from
another site.

A well-written endorsement letter by a list owner or
publisher with a good relationship with subscribers who can
buy from you is worth its weight in gold.

An effective endorsed mailing can result in traffic, sales,
and money in your pocket within minutes of sending it.

"Hover Ads" represent the next fastest way to funnel traffic
to your site.

When used incorrectly, hover ads create an annoying
distraction for web surfers.

Make sure your hover ads are relevant to exactly what
visitors want by providing focused content (and only showing
up once per session).

The next way to funnel traffic from other sites is trading
or buying "Text Links" – which simply means you get someone
else to link to your site from their site either by paying
them or linking back to them from your site.

TIP: Make sure you negotiate a high profile spot for your
link on the other person's site so you get maximum
opportunity for people to click through to you.

Banner ads are making a surge in the marketplace as a viable
traffic source.

Don't expect nearly the same click-through rate on a banner
as for a text ad.

However, banners can result in traffic if you only buy them
on a per-click basis or negotiate a very low cost per
thousand impressions ($5-10 to start).

When negotiating with other websites to steer some or all of
their traffic your way, make sure you create win-win
scenarios that make them want to work with you.

–
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to use fr^e articles to quickly drive thousands of targeted
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My grandbaby showed up today… and he’s a cutey… and SMART – MAN! This is one smart kid. Not even 2 hours old and he’s in the family business!

I’m sitting here in the hospital waiting room waiting to meet my grandson… he’ll be born any time now

Hold the good thought!

Jim

If you’re here to bash the Marlon video – read this first!

The point of sending you the information was NOT because I thought the video was so good… or to make you think it was a work of cinematic mastery!

The point of this post (below) was to show you a BRILLIANT SYSTEM for integrating an "outside the box" video into a marketing campaign.

If you want to make a comment, read the ENTIRE discussion below before you start chastising me about the quality of Marlon’s video… which WAS NOT the point of the post in the first place!

I never said the video was "excellent"… I said it was "BRILLIANT".

And NO – I’m not going to open up a debate on the meaning of the word "brilliant"

I said it was "brilliant" because Marlon was outside the box on this one and had the courage to try something different.

I said it was "brilliant" because it would spread like widlfire – which it will because it evokes an EMOTIONAL response (love it / hate it) I said it was "brilliant" because of the system he has in place to promote it.

Regardless of the category you fall into on the opinion polls, the BUZZ is now on about it!

In the email I sent out I said it was, and I quote: "This video he just released is whacky… attention grabbing… and just plain nutty… and even a little shocking in one spot"

I never said the video was "excellent" or that George Lucas should watch his back.

It’s "brilliant" because of what he did (thinking outside the box and trying something different)… the system he set up (tying it in with his affiliate program)… and creating a motivation for people to share it.

But…  if the video doesn’t cut it for you, then the system falls apart.

The moral of the story? The lesson I want you to take away from this?

Two things:

1. Having a system like he’s got in place to spread the word is a BRILLIANT MODEL

2. The process breaks down if they video itself doesn’t make people want to share it.

The discussion I was trying to start was about the "system" – not the video itself… though the video is obviously a HUGE part of the system – as you’ll see in all the comments below. :-\

Jim