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[K34]Key To The Web

by Ian Williamson, Ian

What you will learn is good, old-fashioned business common sense. These "secrets" will teach that some kind of a promotion is necessary to attract people to your web site. Once attracted, you need to entice people further with more offerings in exchange for their contact information (email address). As the saying goes, the money is in the list. You cannot run any kind of business online, or offline unless you have a list of potential customers.

So, the "secrets" that you are searching for online have been there ever since business began. Find something people want, entice them to connect with you, get their details and sell, sell, sell to them over a period of time to convert them from interested parties to confirmed customers.

But the one secret that is often missing from much of the information online has been around offline for centuries as well - be different. Don't try to be the same as your competitors. Stand out from the crowd. Do something different that gets you remembered.

For example, take the cab driver who gets the name and address of every passenger. Each Christmas they get a card from him. And guess what, people remember him and recommend him. He gets most of his fares from referral business, rather than having to wait around. Have you ever met a cab driver who sends all his passengers cards at Christmas?

Yet online, everyone seems to be the same. New online businesses follow the "rules" set by the experts and gurus. The result is that almost all web sites trying to sell something are starting to look the same. They all do the same thing - have a great offer and a box to fill in your details. Many of them even use the same templates. If you follow the "rules" that are part of the "secrets" you will end up following the pack and you won't be noticed. If you truly want to make it online, you have to be different.

So stand out from the crowd by being different - not just visually, but in the way you approach your readers. Do whacky things perhaps. You will be noticed and remembered - and online that's nine tenths of the battle.

Internet businesses also count on traffic to produce sales but building traffic in the internet age takes a new direction referred to as internet marketing. Since most of the customers you want to visit your site are online, the best course is to advertise online. However, where is always the question. Building traffic requires time, effort and in many cases money but most of all it requires patience.

Affiliate programs are rapidly turning into the most financially feasible methods of advertising available on the internet. It has the potential of placing your ad on virtually thousands of web sites at no cost to you, until they produce results. Affiliates also offer a more targeted effort for your ads and reach more of the customers who might use or need your products or services.

Not everyone who visits your site will but on the first visit, but in building traffic to your site you can put it in a position for future sales success. Having a group of affiliates advertising your site online, preferably sites relating to the type of business you are in, should prove very effective in raising the number of visitors you see on your business's web site.

Additionally, by offering useful information such as informational web content, you will be building traffic by making your site more attractive to search engine spiders. Being found through a search engine is probably the most rewarding way of building traffic as the visitors are looking for what you have to offer and not merely stumbling across the information.

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