MARKETERSEXPRESS.COM - Internet Marketing

I have to tell you this, when I first got started online I did what a lot of newbies do, I bought guaranteed traffic, and free and low cost advertising, and did lots of web directory submissions for my web site.  I have bought Google Adwords advertising.  I have participated in JV giveaways.  I have used safelists and traffic exchanges.  In short, I have done just about everything.

What I have found is that not only do I get more subscribers from my articles, relative to the time I spend writing and posting, than any other source of traffic, but I also have a higher response rate from subscribers who join my list via articles than I do from any other source.

So what do you have to do to use articles to drive traffic to your site?

Here is what I do:

I write a lot of articles - as many as 10-20 in one sitting.  That might seem like a lot.  But if this is the most profitable work I do online, why not write as much as my mind can hold out?  Does that scare you?  That many articles?  It probably does.  You see, it is said that the average article writer writes less than 7 articles before they quit.  I write that many articles a day before I quit, some days.

I try to write articles that are direct and to the point.  I write about exactly what I set out to write, and just enough to get my point across.

I write with a friendly tone.  You see, I don’t think that you need to be stiff and have perfect grammar to be read, in fact, I think that just about the opposite is true.  Keep in mind, you are not writing for a scientific journal, you are writing to a fellow person online, someone who thinks and acts a lot like you do, even if they live on the far side of the globe from you.

I post my articles online.  I have a few select article directories that I use, that give me as much as ten times the response of all the other article directories I have ever used, (around 100, all told). Click my link at the bottom of this article, join one of my lists, and when you receive the first email, hit ‘reply’ and send me a not asking what those article directories are, the ones that are most effective for me, and I will send you the list as soon as I get your email.

Cheers!

Web traffic is critical to your online success.  Without web traffic you will flounder and die online.   With web traffic you have a chance.  Even with web traffic you must consistently test and track everything that you do and drop the losers and bump up the effort on the winners.

To achieve the highest levels of web traffic, you must be willing to take massive action.  Massive action is the action of taking action to the fullest level, willing yourself to take 10x the action any other normal marketer would take.  Do you want to be normal, to be average?  If so, you might as well go back to the TV and pick up a bag of potato chips.  You see, the average person online FAILS!

You must become above average or die online.

So, how to generate massive traffic with forums?

1)  Find 20 forums in your online niche.  For example, if you sell car parts online, type in “car parts forums” into your favorite search engine.

2)  Join all 20 forums

3)  Create a signature file that has your name and email or URL.  Do not put a sales message–just your info.

4)  Go into the introductions section of the forum and introduce yourself.  Just your name, where you are from, your hobbies, and that you are into car parts.  Log off.

5)  The following day, begin to surf the forum, looking for questions that have been asked to which you know the answers.  Give the answers.  Do not try to sell anything of your own.  Answer 5 questions in each forum.  Log off.

6)  Continue to answer 5 questions per day in each forum.

To achieve massive results, you must take massive action.  You will not get many hits and probably no sales the first few weeks of posting to forums.  You see, it is not like typical direct response advertising, where you have your ad posted and you get clicks and sales.  This is different.  This is about relationship.  You must create a relationship with the people in the forum, and they must begin to see you as the answer man.  Then they will buy from you.  You see, they do not buy from the link, they buy from you personally, but for that to happen, they have to get to know you first.